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No vote on 911 move

WARREN

City Council did not decide whether to turn over city police dispatching to the Trumbull County 911 operation Wednesday night, instead tabling the question for later.

Finance Committee Chairman Eddie Colbert said Tuesday he expected the matter to come to a vote at Wednesday’s meeting, but Councilman Al Novak said Tuesday he would vote no because he still wasn’t comfortable with the answers he had received regarding what dispatching facility would serve as backup to the county once Warren’s center was closed.

Meeting rescheduled

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown City Health District Board meeting, scheduled for 8 a.m. Monday, has been rescheduled for 8 a.m. June 8 at the health department, Oakhill Renaissance Place, 345 Oak Hill Ave., Suite 200.

Woman hit in shooting

YOUNGSTOWN

A woman was wounded in the shoulder after a drive-by shooting Wednesday evening on the city’s South Side.

Youngstown police said six shell casings were found around 6 p.m. at Potomac and Judson avenues after the shooting.

A woman was transported to a hospital for a shoulder wound and a male had a bullet graze his leg.

He refused medical attention at the scene.

The car used in the shooting was later recovered, unoccupied, at a different location and was towed by police.

Shell casings were found in the car, linking it to the shooting.

Trial delayed one week

YOUNGSTOWN

The aggravated-murder trial of Kalontae Carter, 19, in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, has been delayed for a week.

Carter asked Judge Lou D’Apolito on Tuesday, the day jury selection was to have started, for more time because he said he did not receive certain materials from his defense attorney, although his attorney has reviewed the case with him.

Judge D’Apolito originally granted Carter just an extra day, but on Wednesday he stretched that to a week.

Carter is accused in the death of Kristopher Stuart, 26, on Elm Street in April 2013.

‘Peeping Tom’ incident

AUSTINTOWN

A man faces multiple charges after what sources say was a “peeping Tom” incident in the township.

Robert Herrera, 31, appeared in Mahoning County Area Court here Tuesday for arraignment on charges of pandering obscenity involving a minor, voyeurism and illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material or performance, among others.

Court records indicate that the charges stem from a May 20 incident.

Herrera is scheduled to be back in court June 24 for a preliminary hearing.

Road closing extended

HARTFORD

The closing of Custer Orangeville Road in Hartford between state Routes 305 and 609 for a culvert replacement has been extended until June 19. The replacement project, which began May 11, was to have been completed Friday, says a news release from the Trumbull County Engineer’s Office.

The recommended detour route continues to be west on state Route 305; north on state Route 7; and east on state Route 609.

For information, call the engineer’s office at 330-675-2640.

Sobriety checkpoints

CANFIELD

Members of the Mahoning County Operating a Vehicle Impaired Task Force stopped 419 vehicles at two sobriety checkpoints in Boardman over the Memorial Day weekend.

The checkpoints on South Avenue at Larkridge and on U.S. Route 224 at Marinthiana yielded: two OVI arrests; three citations for adult restraint, one for traffic-control device, three for failure to display registration, one for expired registration, two for probationary license violations and one for white light emitting to the rear; and two summonses for driving under suspension and two for having no operator’s license.

Officers conducting saturation patrols in support of the checkpoints made 33 traffic stops.

Street to close

YOUNGSTOWN

East Federal Street, between Champion Street and Wick Avenue, will be closed from 3 p.m. Friday through 7 p.m. Saturday for the 18th annual Cityscape cleanup event for downtown Youngstown, which begins at 8 a.m. Saturday.