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Last Youngstown SOUP

YOUNGSTOWN

The Calvin Center For The Arts, 755 Mahoning Ave., will host the final Youngstown SOUP of the year from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday.

Youngstown SOUP is a micro-granting dinner celebrating creative projects in Youngstown. For $5, attendees receive homemade soups and a ballot in which they vote on the best community project and soup that evening. The event is open to all and is first come, first served.

Four community projects are chosen for the event. Presenters have four minutes to share their idea and answer questions from the audience. At the end of the evening, ballots are counted and the winning project takes home the money collected at the door that night, while the winning soup receives a gift certificate to a local grocery store.

For information, contact Alex Lipinsky at 330-261-3024.

Drug-awareness event

YOUNGSTOWN

The Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative has planned a public meeting to address education, drug addiction and neighborhood safety titled “Breaking Chains and Building Hope” from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday at Tabernacle Baptist Church, 707 Arlington St.

For information, contact Rebecca Soldan at 330-301-1100 or rebecca@mvorganizing.org, or Wayne Huggins at 330-333-0957 or wayne@ohorganizing.org.

Law Day at YSU

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State University will conduct its annual Law Day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Presidential Suite of Kilcawley Center. Admission representatives from various law schools will be available to meet with students.

Schools attending will be the University of Akron, Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve, Capital University, Ohio Northern, University of Cincinnati, Cleveland-Marshall, University of Toledo, Ave Maria, Valparaiso University, New York Law School and Indiana Tech.

Catalogs, applications and financial aid information will be available. The event is sponsored by YSU’s Department of Politics and International Relations/Rigelhaupt Pre-Law Center.

For information, call the department office at 330-941-3436.

Pa. absentee ballots

MERCER, PA.

Tuesday is the deadline to apply for an absentee ballot in Mercer County. Applications can be downloaded at www.votespa.com or can be found at most local post offices, municipal buildings, libraries and state legislators’ offices.

Completed ballots must be returned to the Bureau of Elections in the Mercer County Courthouse no later than Friday. If delivering a ballot in person to the courthouse, it is important to remember that the law permits a voter to return only their own ballot; otherwise, it must be mailed, said Jeff Greenburg, the county’s elections director.

Coat program

BOARDMAN

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mahoning Valley & Western Pennsylvania is having its fifth annual Give A Coat Program today in Mahoning and Columbiana counties.

RMHC, in partnership with Walmart, purchased new coats and distributed them to local youths who pre-registered for the program through the Salvation Army in each county.

Man falls through roof

BOARDMAN

A man fell through the roof of a building at the George A. Mitchell Co., 557 McClurg Road, Friday afternoon, and landed on a pile of steel, according to township police.

A dispatcher said the incident happened about 1 p.m.

Vindicator broadcast partner 21 WFMJ-TV reported that the man was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center and was treated by a trauma team. The victim’s name and condition were not available.

No indictment

WARREN

A Trumbull County grand jury did not indict the driver in a traffic stop that resulted in a shooting at a police officer and foot chase in Hubbard.

A police officer pulled over Jason Duecaster, 30, of Steel Street in Youngstown at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 14 at the Circle K store parking lot on West Liberty Street for a minor traffic violation. His passenger, Jeffrey Irby, 26, of Fort Wayne, Ind., fled the stop, was chased, and fired shots at the officer, police said. After about a half-hour, Irby was caught in a backyard on Clingan Street. He was indicted on felonious assault and improper handling of a firearm charges Thursday.

Duecaster also was charged with felonious assault and improper handling of a firearm. He had not been involved with the shooting and had stayed with the car, police said.

Duecaster also was charged with driving while under suspension. He will appear in Girard Municipal Court on that charge Wednesday.

Principal assaulted

WARREN

The principal at Summit Academy School, 2106 Arbor Ave. SE, reported being assaulted by an unruly student at noon Thursday. The principal suffered an apparent minor injury.

Car flees crash scene

WARREN

A car that contributed to a five-car rear-end pileup on Parkman Road Northwest at 3:35 p.m. Thursday fled the scene.

Seven people in three of the cars suffered minor injuries and were treated at the scene by ambulance personnel.

Police said three cars were stopped behind one another in traffic near 1591 Parkman when a fourth car moved to avoid being hit from behind by a fifth car, but the fourth car contacted the car in front, triggering the chain reaction.

The fifth car struck the rear corner of the fourth car and kept going.

The driver of the fourth car was cited for speeding.

Charged with burglary

HOWLAND

Shayne T. Pozega, 20, of Crestview Avenue Southeast and Sean Crislip, 26, of Turkey Run Road in Vienna were charged with burglary Wednesday in Warren Municipal Court in relation to a break-in at Pozega’s grandmother’s house on Crestview, where Pozega had been staying until Oct. 16.

Not-guilty pleas were entered for both, and bond was set at $25,000 each.

Pozega’s aunt told Howland police that Pozega had been inside the house without permission, and she found him and Crislip in the garage. He had been ordered out of the house while his grandmother was in the hospital. The keys were taken away, and the alarm code had been changed, she said.

Police found an open rear door. Also missing was $1,260 in cash.

Drug indictment

CLEVELAND

A federal grand jury has indicted a 44-year-old Youngstown man on a charge of possession and attempted possession with intent to distribute more than 1.1 pounds of cocaine.

Antwan M. Grissett was charged with committing the crime Oct. 2. The case was investigated by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Drug Enforcement Administration and is being prosecuted by David M. Toepfer, the Youngstown-based assistant U.S. attorney.

Disaster-training event

VIENNA

The 910th Airlift Wing and American Red Cross of the Mahoning Valley are teaming up to conduct a mock aircraft crash disaster training event, “Feel the Heat,” at Youngstown Air Reserve Station at 3 p.m. Monday.

The 910th Civil Engineer Fire Department will respond to contain the aircraft fire while Red Cross personnel will provide care and comfort to simulated survivors.

The exercise is designed to demonstrate the high level of readiness of the air station’s first responders and the everyday work of the area’s American Red Cross staff and volunteers. It also will showcase the partnership between the military and the Red Cross, officials said.

It is the second event to take place as part of the Air Force Community Partnership Initiative at the air reserve station.

Bench warrant issued

YOUNGSTOWN

Judge Shirley J. Christian of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a man who pleaded guilty last month to illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for making methamphetamine, but failed to show up Friday for sentencing.

Michael S. George, 35, of East Market Street, Alliance, committed the offense Oct. 22, 2013, in Mahoning County, according to the indictment. Prosecuting and defense lawyers had jointly recommended a nine-month prison term for George, but under the law, he could be sentenced to up to three years.

George’s plea agreement says any sentencing recommendation from the prosecution is contingent on his timely appearance for sentencing.

House destroyed by fire

LIBERTY

A fire destroyed a house Thursday evening in the 600 block of Aurora Drive, township Fire Chief Gus Birch said. The fire broke out at about 9 p.m. The cause is undetermined, he said.

One person was home at the time but got out safely. There were no injuries, Birch added.