Help for graduation

Help for graduation

YOUNGSTOWN

Mahoning County Department of Job and Family Services will assist needy families by paying up to $100 in graduation fees for each high-school senior.

The income-eligibility ceiling for the federally funded program is twice the federal poverty level, meaning a family of four earning $47,700 annually, or less, qualifies for assistance.

For information, call Lori Murphy, JFS program administrator, at 330-884-6933.

Lunch to be served

YOUNGSTOWN

E.B. Family Life Center, 7 S. Garland Ave., will serve a lunch today starting at 11:30 a.m., and have a food bag giveaway after the meal. Participants are asked to take ID and extra bags only until 2 p.m. For information, call Sandy at 330-743-0526.

Man captured

YOUNGSTOWN

A man wanted on two warrants was captured by police after a foot chase on the South Side early Wednesday.

James Elliot-Sutton, 24, of Youngstown, is in the Mahoning County jail on charges of resisting arrest, obstructing official business, criminal trespass and warrants for criminal trespass and assault. He was arrested after he was spotted at a Market Street gas station about 3:25 a.m.

Reports said he ran from several officers and was finally caught after a foot chase in the 2000 block of Market Street.

Special meeting

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown City Council will have a special meeting to consider passing the 2014 city budget at 4:45 p.m. today at city hall, 26 S. Phelps St. For information, contact the city clerk at 330-742-8709.

Theft probed

AUSTINTOWN

Township detectives are investigating the theft of citizen-band radios reported stolen Tuesday from five separate tractor-trailers.

The radios were taken from unlocked trucks in a Giant Eagle distribution center on Victoria Road. Only the radios were reported stolen and were valued at $121.36 each, according to a police report.

Suspect sought

WARREN

Police are looking for a female captured on surveillance video pulling another female out of a car at a gas station Tuesday night, then driving into her car and trying to drive into her and her male friend.

The victim, a 17-year-old female from North Lima, said the incident began at 9 p.m. in the parking lot of USA Gas Mart, at Youngstown Road and Pine Avenue Southeast.

The victim said the suspect, whom she knows, first used her car to try to block her car in, then approached her yelling, telling her to get out of the car. A second female also tried to fight the 17-year-old.

After the victim pepper-sprayed the suspect in the face, the suspect drove into the victim’s car, then backed up and tried to drive into her and the male, who were standing outside the car.

Police said surveillance video backed up the victims’ account.

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