Ribbon-cutting set

Ribbon-cutting set

leetonia

The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber will have a celebratory ribbon-cutting at Briley’s Restaurant, 310 Walnut St. in Leetonia, at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

Briley’s Restaurant is a new, family-operated Italian-American restaurant with a menu including homemade pasta, soups, salads and sandwiches. Grilled cheese sandwiches, appetizers and burgers will be available.

Briley’s is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Menards opening

WARREN

A Menards home- improvement store is opening Tuesday at Elm Road and the state Route 5 Bypass.

It is the easternmost Menards store in the country and the first in the Mahoning Valley. Menards has 286 other stores in 14 Midwestern states. It has 21 other Ohio stores.

Menards is an Eau Clair, Wis.-based, family-owned company started in 1958 that sells items for homeowners, tenants, business owners and contractors, the company said in a news release.

Accord air-bag probe

DETROIT

U.S. auto-safety regulators are investigating reports that air bags on some older Honda Accords may not inflate in a crash.

The probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration covers about 384,000 cars from the 2008 model year.

The agency says in documents posted Friday that it received 19 consumer complaints that the air bag control computer failed in the Accord, which then was Honda’s top-selling model.

Honda said it is cooperating with the investigation and will continue an internal review. The investigation is based on a small number of complaints, the company said in a statement.

Shooting on train

PARIS

A gunman opened fire on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday, wounding two people before two American passengers subdued him, officials said.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, speaking in Arras in northern France where the suspected was detained, said one of the Americans was hospitalized with serious wounds. Their names were not immediately released.

Not-guilty pleas

WAUKESHA, Wis.

A pair of 13-year-old girls accused of trying to kill their friend as a sacrifice to a horror fiction character called Slender Man sat silently in court Friday, prompting the judge to issue a not-guilty plea on their behalf.

Judge Michael Bohren also said the young teens will stand trial together starting Oct. 15.

Defense lawyers didn’t object to the pleas, though they did protest the court’s jurisdiction in the case. Attorneys for each girl said after the hearing that they believe the case should be tried in juvenile court.

Staff/wire reports