Three-car accident

Three-car accident

YOUNGSTOWN

City police charged a Warren woman with driving under the influence after a three-car accident about 6:40 p.m. Thursday on Canfield Road.

Reports said officers were alerted by paramedics when they arrived that a woman sitting in the grass who was one of the drivers, Michelle Franco, 34, of Brookside Drive Northwest, was drunk.

Reports said Franco had a slight odor of alcohol on her, and told police she drank four beers about 2 p.m. Thursday.

Reports said officers asked if she would perform a field sobriety test, and at first she said she always fails them but then said she would try. She refused to take two of the tests, however, but she agreed to take a breath test, reports said.

Reports said Franco registered a blood-alcohol level of 0.250. The legal limit for drunken driving in Ohio is 0.08. Police cited Franco and gave her a court date.

Sentencing set

YOUNGSTOWN

Sentencing is set for July 24 for a man convicted Tuesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court of felonious assault and two counts of child endangering.

A jury found Ericulo Henderson, 59, of Oak Hill Avenue, guilty of the charges after a two-day trial before Judge Shirley J. Christian.

Henderson was accused of paddling a child who was 11 at the time during tutoring sessions. Whenever the child would give a wrong answer, the child would be paddled. The paddlings took place between Oct. 4 and 12.

Henderson is in the Mahoning County jail awaiting sentencing.

Home destroyed

YOUNGSTOWN

A vacant 631 Ridge Ave. home on the South Side was destroyed in an arson early Friday.

Crews were called to the home about 3:15 a.m. and found it fully engulfed in flames, reports said. Reports said neighbors told firefighters the home has been vacant for at least 15 years.

Damage is listed at $5,000. No one was injured.

Cars catch on fire

YOUNGSTOWN

A fire in a car about 5:15 p.m. Thursday in a parking area at Mill Creek Park also caught two other cars on fire.

Reports said the owner of the car told firefighters she had been having problems with fuses in the cigarette lighter and when she parked the car, smoke began coming out of the dashboard and, in turn, flames began to appear.

The flames spread to cars on both sides, reports said. Damage is listed at $2,000. There were no injuries.

Open house

NILES

Homes For Kids, which provides treatment foster care to children in the Mahoning Valley, is having a one-day open house and monthlong benefit at the Warren Ponderosa restaurant, 3581 Elm Road in Warren.

The monthlong benefit raises money in June from every meal purchased when the diner mentions Homes For Kids.

The one-day open house will take place from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at the restaurant for the public to learn more about how to be a treatment foster parent. A trunk sale benefiting the center will take place at the restaurant from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 27.

TCTC open house

CHAMPION

The Trumbull Career and Technical Center on Educational Highway will have an open house from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday on its full- and part-time courses.

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