Woman beaten

Woman beaten

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are investigating after reports said a woman was hospitalized early Sunday for the second time after being beaten by a boyfriend.

Reports said officers were called about 6:20 a.m. Sunday to a home in the 900 block of Compton Lane, where they found a woman bleeding from the face and head with bruises over her eyes, face, a broken nose and a severely bruised back.

Reports said the woman told police she was hospitalized Saturday evening after she was beaten by her boyfriend, and when she returned home, he punched her in the face and beat her again. When she was taken to the hospital the second time, reports said a man kept calling saying he was the woman’s brother and demanding to know where she was. Reports said the woman told police she does not have a brother.

Two charged with stealing vehicles

YOUNGSTOWN

Police arrested a 19-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy early Monday after reports said they took two cars that were warming up in a South Side driveway.

Reports said officers were sent about 7:45 a.m. to a home in the 3500 block of Krieger Lane, where a woman told them she had started two of her cars to warm up and she saw both of them driving away.

Police found one of the cars after it hit a light pole in the area of West Indianola and Hillman avenues. Reports said the two ran behind a house in the 100 block of West Princeton Avenue, where Andrew Ryan Scott, the 19-year-old, was found. The 14-year-old, who had an ankle-monitoring bracelet from the Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center, was found hiding under a motor home by police dog Gustav, reports said. Reports did not say what happened with the second car.

Scott was booked into the county jail on a charge of receiving stolen property. The juvenile was taken to the JJC.

Homeless Walk

YOUNGSTOWN

The Help Hotline Crisis Center is hosting the 26th annual Cold Weather Program and eighth annual Homeless Walk today.

The walk starts at 9 a.m. at the Covelli Centre, 229 E. Front St., and will proceed to the Rescue Mission of the Mahoning Valley, 962 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Bus driver fired from Austintown

AUSTINTOWN

The Austintown school board on Monday fired Deborah Bundy, a school bus driver. The vote was unanimous.

The reason cited for Bundy’s termination was inappropriate use of sick time, said Superintendent Vince Colaluca. Colaluca said although Mahoning County school districts are in need of certified licensed bus drivers, the board will not break rules on sick-time use.

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