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Parking bans

Parking bans have been issued in the following communities in anticipation of the forecasted snowstorm: Liberty, 5 p.m. today to 5 p.m. Monday; New Middletown, until further notice; Warren, 2 a.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday.

Crash in Champion

CHAMPION

A two-car crash on State Road caused traffic delays in the area Friday morning. The cars collided at 417 State Road near Gaumer Landscape at 10:17 a.m., causing one car go into into a ditch. The drivers were from Bristolville and Southington.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol said there were no serious injuries.

Juvenile charged

WARREN

Police have released more information about the 16-year-old charged in a Nov. 22 home invasion on Starlite Drive Northwest that resulted in the death of one of the purported burglars. The teen was charged in Trumbull County Juvenile Court with involuntary manslaughter, aggravated robbery and two counts of aggravated burglary. Peighton E. Bishop of state Route 534 in Braceville Township, who turned 18 two months before the home invasion, pleaded guilty to similar charges this week in county common pleas court and was sentenced to three years in prison. Police say the 16-year-old, whose criminal case is pending, lives at the same address on Braceville Robinson Road in Braceville as Trent Hall, 18, who was killed by the homeowner during a scuffle.

Market Street fire

YOUNGSTOWN

A fire at a 2101 Market St. building under construction about 10:30 a.m. Thursday caused $7,000 in damage. Crews were called after insulation stored inside ignited, reports said. A maintenance man told firefighters the glass on a front door was broken when he arrived.

Medical-computer theft

BOARDMAN

A Youngstown man faces a felony charge of receiving stolen property after township police arrested him on a warrant Thursday. Police say Mark Rogers, 55, of Boardman Avenue, tried to sell a stolen computer in September. An employee at the computer store became suspicious after observing medical files on the computer and contacted the Ohio Heart Institute in Youngstown.

The employee discovered the institute was missing two computers and learned Rogers was a patient there. When police questioned Rogers in October, he claimed he bought the computer from an unknown person on the street. Rogers was taken to the Mahoning County jail, pending an appearance in Mahoning County Area Court on Tuesday.

Meth in hotel

CANFIELD

Two suspects police say were making methamphetamine in a hotel room are to appear in Mahoning County Area Court on Tuesday. Judge Scott Hunter set bond at $25,000 for Nathan Steer, 28, of Damascus, and at $30,000 for Fallon Barnett, 31, of Damascus. Mahoning County deputy sheriffs went to a hotel at 7815 West Akron-Canfield Road to arrest Steer on a warrant for a felony drug charge, and found materials to make meth. Both Steer and Barnett are charged with illegal assembly of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs. Barnett also is charged with obstruction of justice. Both are in the Mahoning County Jail.