Friday, April 24, 2015
Streets to be closed for block party, concert
YOUNGSTOWN
The Federal Frenzy block party and concert event sponsored by Penguin Productions and Youngstown State University will close downtown streets from 7 a.m. Saturday through 2 a.m. Sunday. They include North Phelps Street between Commerce and Boardman streets and West Federal Street between Wick Avenue and Hazel Street.
Woman pleads
YOUNGSTOWN
A woman who was charged with aiding her husband in abusing three of their children entered guilty pleas Thursday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.
Judge John Durkin will sentence Dawn Cavna, 28, of Mahoning Avenue, in June. Prosecutors are recommending probation.
Her husband, Christopher Cavna, is serving a 90-year federal prison sentence on charges that he took pictures of the children engaging in sexual activity between January 2012 and ending in 2013 and sent them through his cellphone and the mail.
Christopher Cavna also has a 2011 conviction on child-pornography charges.
Dawn Cavna was to have a bench trial Thursday. The children, who were age 1, 5 and 7 at the time of the abuse, are living with relatives.
Man arrested on rape complaint from 2001
BERLIN CENTER
An Ellsworth Road man and Mahoning County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 44-year-old man Thursday on a rape complaint from 2001.
William Toth tried to run into a basement when officers were there to arrest him, said Sheriff’s Maj. Jeff Allen. He was taken to the Mahoning County jail after he was arrested.
According to records filed in Mahoning County Area Court in Boardman, Toth is accused of a rape in Boardman on Aug. 1, 2001.
A warrant for Toth’s arrest was issued Wednesday, according to court records.
Court records from Youngstown Municipal Court show Toth pleaded no contest and was found guilty of domestic violence April 2 for a February incident and was sentenced to probation.
Cortland man killed
mecca
A Cortland man was killed in a one-car accident at 11:26 a.m. Thursday on Philips Rice Road in Mecca Township, the Ohio State Highway Patrol reported.
Paul Anthony Zidonis, 73, drove off the road and hit a utility pole because of a medical condition, the patrol reported.
He was taken to St. Joseph Hospital in Warren, where he was pronounced dead.
Tree-seedling sale
CORTLAND
The Trumbull Soil and Water Conservation District is having a last-chance tree-seedling sale to celebrate Earth Day from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today at the Trumbull SWCD office, 520 W. Main St.
Available for purchase are blueberries, buckeye, crab apple, hazelnut, sugar maple, persimmon, American plum, redbud, northern red oak, river birch and sycamore.
There are a small number of bulb packets for sale also. All bulb packets are $8. For information, call 330-637-2056, exts. 101 or 111. All sales are final.
Lane restriction
WELLSVILLE
State Route 7 northbound will be reduced to one lane next week at Wellsville for bridge-deck repairs, the Ohio Department of Transportation announced today.
The maintenance crew will begin making repairs Monday and expect to complete this work by Thursday. The southbound lanes will not be affected, ODOT officials said.