Fire damages home

Fire damages home

LIBERTY

Crews from five fire departments helped battle a blaze that caused an estimated $70,000 in damage at a township home Friday afternoon.

According to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, a township police officer spotted smoke and flames when responding to a burglar alarm at the home on the 500 block of East Liberty Street about 2 p.m.

Township firefighters as well as departments from Brookfield, Hubbard, Vienna and the Youngstown Air Reserve Station responded.

Firefighters found no one was inside and rescued two dogs just as the homeowner returned.

Investigators are looking for the cause of the fire, but believe it started on the first floor.

Road closing

YOUNGSTOWN

Gibson Street between Roxbury and Palmer avenues on the South Side will be closed Monday for about one week.

Charles Shasho, the city’s deputy director of public works, said in a news release the closure is necessary for emergency sewer repair. Traffic will be maintained by a posted detour.

Man sentenced in child-porn case

YOUNGSTOWN

A city man found with child pornography on a computer at his West Side home is going to prison.

Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court sentenced Richard Chacone, 33, to 10 years in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to 10 counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor and one count of possessing criminal tools.

According to The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, 21 WFMJ-TV, agents from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Youngstown police and the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office confiscated a computer at Chacone’s Ridgelawn Avenue home last December.

When Chacone completes his sentence, he will be required to register as a sex offender and keep authorities notified of his home address

Sentenced for abuse

YOUNGSTOWN

An Ellsworth Township couple will spend time behind bars for abusing an impaired relative who was living with them, according to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner.

Heather Wymer and Michael Wymer were arrested in July 2013 after authorities accused them of shooting Heather Wymer’s 24-year-old brother with a BB gun.

Both pleaded guilty to failing to provide for a functionally impaired person. Michael Wymer also pleaded guilty to felonious assault.

Michael Wymer was sentenced to 21/2 years in prison. Heather Wymer was sentenced to six months in Mahoning County jail.

Stadium donation

boardman

Cocca’s Pizza is contributing $25,000 to the Boardman Stadium Project and will be recognized on the new stadium scoreboard.

The stadium is expected to open this fall.

“As a proud 1992 Boardman [alumnus], I am elated to help support the construction of our new Spartan Stadium, which will be such a great asset to the Boardman community,” said Steve Cocca, owner of Cocca’s Pizza.

Bill Bonte, Boardman Boosters Club president, welcomed Cocca’s as a sponsor.

To support the project, contact the Boardman Boosters for information at donation@boardmanboosters.org or visit www.boardmanboosters.org.

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