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YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown resident Peter Gross recently won $2,000,000, a top prize in the Ohio Lottery 100X The Money instant game.

Gross has had luck on this ticket before, winning $1,000. He chose an annuity prize that will pay $100,000 a year for 20 years. After mandatory federal and state taxes totaling 29 percent, he will receive $71,000 yearly for 20 years. He plans to catch up on bills and buy a new house with the windfall.

Crash injures six

YOUNGSTOWN

An accident at the intersection of Shady Run Road and Indianola Avenue sent six people to the hospital Wednesday morning, according to Vindicator broadcast partner 21 WFMJ-TV.

An SUV and a car collided near the intersection about 9 a.m., sending the SUV rolling onto its roof and into a yard.

Two adults and four children were sent to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.

Traffic fatality

VIENNA

An elderly man involved in an accident on state Route 193 Tuesday died that night after being taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center. Lester Scott, 92, of Vienna, was a passenger in a car that drove off the road and struck a telephone pole, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol and the Mahoning County Coroner’s office.

OSHP responded to the crash near King Graves Road, after receiving a call after 4 p.m. When officers arrived, Scott was alert and being loaded into an ambulance, said Sgt. Patrick Abel of the patrol. “When our trooper arrived at the hospital to talk to the driver, he did have injuries but they weren’t life-threatening,” Abel said. Scott died as a result of blunt force injuries of the chest and abdomen, according to the coroner’s office.

Crack in cruiser

YOUNGSTOWN

Police say they found six doses of suspected crack cocaine inside a cruiser while taking a man to the Mahoning County jail about 5:45 p.m. Tuesday.

Reports said John Reid, 26, of East Philadelphia Avenue, was a passenger inside a car driven by Jarrell Martin, 25, of South Bon Air Avenue, that was pulled over at Himrod and Truesdale avenues for running a stop sign on the East Side.

Police cited Martin for driving under suspension, and Reid had a warrant from Youngstown Municipal Court on a zoning violation, reports said. When he was taken to jail, he constantly fidgeted in the back seat of the cruiser, reports said.

When officers took him out of the cruiser, they found a bag where his feet were that contained the crack cocaine. He had a charge of possession of drugs/crack cocaine added and was booked into the jail on that charge and the warrant.

Domestic violence

YOUNGSTOWN

A West Side man arrested Sunday on a domestic-violence call had a rifle reported stolen from Portage County, police said.

Kyle Corea, 46, of North Lakeview Avenue, is in the Mahoning County jail on $20,000 bond after his arraignment Wednesday in municipal court on a charge of receiving stolen property.

Police were called to a home in the 300 block of South Hazelwood Avenue about 3:35 p.m. Sunday, where a woman said Corea hit her. When she ran into a bathroom to get away from him, she said he fired two shots at her.

The woman told police Corea had weapons, and they found the rifle inside the home, reports said. A pistol was found under the seat of a car Corea was driving, reports said.

Three collide on I-76

NORTH JACKSON

An accident involving three vehicles occurred in a construction zone on Interstate 76 on Wednesday morning, according to Vindicator broadcast partner 21 WFMJ-TV.

A FedEx delivery truck, a Chevy HHR and a pickup truck crashed near exit 57 in the eastbound lane at about 9 a.m.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol said the accident was caused by driver inattention, and warned drivers to slow down and pay attention in construction zones, according to the report. One driver sustained minor injuries, and the two other drivers reported no injuries.

BOE meeting Monday

McDONALD

McDonald school board will have a town-hall meeting from 7 to 7:30 p.m. Monday in the high-school auditorium to discuss the 4.3-mill permanent improvement levy on the Nov. 4 ballot.

The levy would generate $223,913 for five years.

The board’s regular meeting will follow.

Bicycle-friendly award

CORTLAND

The Allstate Foundation has awarded $1,000 to the Mosquito Lake Greenway Project in the name of one of its agents, Jason Durica of Cortland, for his work on the project’s education committee.

The project’s goal is to develop Mosquito Lake, the city of Cortland and townships of Bazetta and Mecca as bicycle-friendly destinations as recognized by the Bicycle Friendly America program. There are 303 such communities in the United States.

Volunteers have worked on the project — including the creation of a paved greenway along the southern part of the lake — for about six years.

Drug take-back

LIBERTY

Liberty Township Police Department, in cooperation with the Drug Enforcement Administration, will be participating in the prescription drug National Take Back Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 27 at the township administration building, 1315 Church Hill-Hubbard Road. Participants wishing to return unused, outdated or unwanted drugs are asked to place the medications in clear, sealed plastic bags for return. No liquids, needles or sharps will be accepted. This service is free of charge.

Sentenced in theft

WARREN

Maurice L. Morgan, 25, of Glendola Avenue in Champion received a two-year prison sentence Wednesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court after pleading guilty to burglarizing his grandmother’s house in May.

Champion police said Morgan used a ruse to get his mother to leave the home on Craig Avenue in Champion where his grandmother lived, then went inside at 3 a.m. He doesn’t have keys and isn’t allowed in the house, police said.

While his 75-year-old grandmother was asleep, he reached into her shirt to take money she keeps in her bra. Morgan didn’t get any money and started punching the woman in the chest, saying “Give me the money,” police said.

Eventually he got $81 from her purse and fled.

Closing arguments

WARREN

Closing arguments in the David Martin murder trial will begin early today in the courtroom of Judge Andrew Logan of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. The jury is expected to begin deliberations soon afterward.

Martin, 29, of Cleveland, and one of his attorneys have admitted that Martin is guilty of killing Jeremy Cole, 21, of Warren and wounding Melissa Putnam, 30, of Warren at Putnam’s home on Oak Street Southwest Sept. 27, 2012.

If Martin is convicted of murder and certain other charges, the penalty phase will begin Wednesday. That involves Martin’s defense attorneys presenting witnesses who will testify about Martin’s childhood and other issues in an effort to convince the 12 jurors to chose one of several prison options for him rather than the death penalty.

South Street fire

WARREN

The fire department responded to a small structure fire at a building on South Street on Wednesday night, according to dispatchers.

Firefighters were called to the blaze about 8:30 p.m.

No injuries were reported. Investigators are looking into the cause.