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Veterans service

CAMPBELL

A veterans memorial service will take place at 6:30 p.m. today at Christ the Good Shepherd Parish/St. Joseph the Provider Church, 633 Porter Ave. Refreshments will be served.

Shots fired at 2 houses

YOUNGSTOWN

No one was injured after two houses on Lansdowne Boulevard were damaged by gunfire Monday. Just after 1 p.m. police were called to a home in the 600 block of Lansdowne, where a man said he was in his basement when he heard several shots and found two bullet holes in the wall to his stairway. Reports said officers found four spent shell casings at the intersection of Lansdowne and McClure Street. A woman in the 500 block of Lansdowne called police about 3:45 p.m. saying she had heard the gunfire earlier in the day and discovered a window on her back door broken. Police found a bullet hole in one of her walls, reports said.

Suspect shoots self

YOUNGSTOWN

Police said a man wanted on a parole violation shot himself about 1 p.m. Tuesday when U.S. marshals came to a home in the 3100 block of Hudson Avenue to serve a warrant for his arrest. The man’s identity is being withheld until his family can be notified by the Mahoning County Coroner’s Office. Capt. Brad Blackburn of the detective bureau said the man saw marshals outside the home, took a gun and killed himself. Marshals heard the shot, ordered the man out of the home, and when no one answered, went inside. Besides the man, four other people were in the home, Blackburn said.

Crash closes I-80 lanes

AUSTINTOWN

A driver in a Toyota Corolla improperly changed lanes in front of a Peterbilt tractor-trailer Tuesday morning on Interstate 80 westbound, causing the truck to run off the road and both vehicles to roll over. Two lanes were shut down because of the accident, but reopened in the afternoon. Both drivers were transported to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Chewed wires may have caused fire

AUSTINTOWN

The unofficial cause of a fire Nov. 2 at the Briarfield assisted nursing facility appears to be in the wiring. Residents were evacuated but there were no injuries. Fire Chief Andrew Frost said wires were found that appeared to have been chewed through, likely by rodents. The wires were sent away for testing to verify the official cause of the fire.

Hammer attack

SHARON, PA.

Gregory Zyak, 41, of Sharon, is facing several charges in the beating of a 70-year-old man with a hammer shortly before noon Tuesday. Police responded to a call from an apartment building where they found a man bleeding from the head. The victim said he answered the door for his neighbor knocking when he was struck repeatedly from behind by a man, later identified as Zyak, according to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner. Police found Zyak in a neighbor’s bathroom. He is being held in Mercer County Jail in lieu of a $150,000 bond. His preliminary hearing is set for Nov. 20.

Counterfeit $50s

AUSTINTOWN

Austintown police Sunday responded to two calls about the same person using counterfeit $50 bills to pay for food. Both store managers advised officers the stores could provide surveillance video, and detectives are investigating.

First Street bridge bids

YOUNGSTOWN

Mahoning County commissioners agreed to advertise for bids for lighting and sidewalk improvements to the First Street bridge over the Mahoning River in Lowellville. On Tuesday, they also appointed Anne R. Cobbin to the 18-member county Mental Health and Recovery Board; her term will expire June 30, 2019. The commissioners’ next meeting will take place at 5 p.m. Tuesday in Poland Village Hall.

Powerstown meeting

YOUNGSTOWN

Powerstown Neighbors Block Watch will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at Faith Community Church, 1919 Midlothian Blvd. Councilman John R. Swierz will attend to discuss neighborhood issues.