Sunday, May 18, 2014
Students’ racing wins
AKRON
Austintown Middle School won first and second place in the Stock Division at the Gravity Racing Challenge at Derby Downs here. The race is connected with Soap Box Derby Racing and Time Warner Cable.
The Gravity Racing Challenge is the derby’s school-based Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics initiative, providing educational opportunities for K-12 youth worldwide.
Teams from around the country raced in the Gravity Racing Challenge, which began in 2010.
Cedric Ross was the driver of Austintown Middle School’s winning car.
Woman hit with bottle
YOUNGSTOWN
A 56-year-old woman received stitches in her head after another woman hit her with a beer bottle at West Side tavern at 4:38 p.m. Saturday.
The victim said she and another woman argued before the suspect ran from the other side of the tavern at her and hit her in the back of the head.
The victim was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center and received six stitches and a CAT scan, according to a police report. No arrest was made.
Captured, back in jail
WARREN
Richard Harker, 32, of Ninth Street in Niles, was captured and returned to the Trumbull County jail about 3 a.m. Saturday, jail officials said.
He walked away from St. Joseph Health Center on Friday afternoon after Weathersfield police took him there from Niles Municipal Court for an illness.
Weathersfield police also found him, jail officials said.
Weathersfield police arrested Harker on Thursday afternoon in Niles after a former girlfriend told them Harker assaulted her in the driveway of a house on Evaline Street in Mineral Ridge by pushing his thumb into her eye and pushing her around.
The woman had facial and eye injuries and reported having trouble seeing, so she was taken to ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital for treatment.
Harker was in court Friday morning to answer to a domestic-violence charge in that matter.