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YOUNGSTOWN

Federal Street between Phelps and Market streets will be closed to traffic beginning at 7 a.m. today through Friday. The closure is necessary to accommodate the NYO Property Group in placing a crane on Federal Street for mechanical work on the Wick Building. A local detour will be posted.

Grants announced

CLEVELAND

Three-year grants of $250,000 to Austintown and $375,000 to Warren under the Community Oriented Policing Services program were announced Tuesday by the U.S. attorney.

The Austintown grant is for two police officers and the Warren grant is for three.

Those police departments are among seven Northeast Ohio police agencies sharing $5.1 million in COPS grants announced this week, which pay for 41 police officers.

Since 1995, the U.S. Department of Justice’s COPS program has awarded more than $14 billion nationally to pay law-enforcement officers’ salaries and benefits. Grants are awarded based on financial need, local crime rates and community policing plans.

First-place awards

COLUMBUS

The Mahoning County Convention and Visitors Bureau has won first-place awards for each of its two e-newsletters, and a second- place award for its advertising at a recent Ohio Association of Convention and Visitors’ Bureaus luncheon.

One of the e-newsletters highlights the county’s attractions for the leisure consumer; the other targets the bus and group tour market.

Tara Mady, Mahoning County CVB assistant director, developed both e-newsletters.

Items taken

AUSTINTOWN

Someone broke through a window and entered a home in the 400 block of Westgate Boulevard through a back door sometime between Sept. 15 and Monday. The incident was reported to authorities at 7:33 p.m. Monday. Taken were a PlayStation gaming system, a flat-screen television and a jar of change. A neighbor had been keeping an eye on the house for the neighbor who had been on vacation for two weeks.

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