Motorcyclist injured

Motorcyclist injured

LOWELLVILLE

A motorcyclist suffered nonlife-threatening injuries in an accident about 4:23 p.m. Wednesday while negotiating a curve on Lowellville Road just north of U.S. Route 224. The Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Canfield Post did not provide the name of the cyclist nor other details about the accident.

Pa. man dies when tractor overturns

KINSMAN

A Jamestown, Pa., man was killed Wednesday when the farm tractor he was driving, towing farm equipment, overturned on state Route 5 near Ward North Road in Kinsman.

Killed was David A. Yoder, 25, who was westbound on Route 5 when the one-vehicle accident occurred about 5:18 p.m., according to the Warren Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

Yoder was operating a tractor when the equipment he was towing struck a guardrail end, causing the tractor to overturn onto its side and eject Yoder. The road was closed for about two hours. The patrol continues to investigate.

Opposed to Issue 3

YOUNGSTOWN

At a special meeting Wednesday, the Youngstown City District Board of Health voted unanimously to maintain its opposition to the promotion, sale and legalization of recreational marijuana, which will be on the Nov. 3 ballot as state Issue 3.

Though Ohio law prohibits public entities that receive state and federal funds from taking direct stances in support or opposition of ballot issues, the city health board, in furtherance of its mission to protect and improve the public health of the local community, and to further increase the public’s awareness of the effects of marijuana use on the quality of life of its citizens, unanimously voted to maintain its opposition to the promotion, sale and legalization of recreational marijuana, said Erin Bishop, health commissioner.

Rape-case sentence

WARREN

Frank Arcuri III, who raped a girl in 2013 and several times this year at a home on Larry Lane in Bazetta Township, was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison Wednesday.

Arcuri, 36, of Frostwood Drive in Cortland, was convicted at trial earlier this month of four rape counts, each of which could have resulted in a sentence of life in prison with no chance at parole.

Judge Ronald Rice of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court chose to sentence Arcuri to 15 years to life on one count and another 15 years to life on three others. The victim was age 7 or 8 at the time of the rapes.

Verdict in shooting

YOUNGSTOWN

Jurors in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday night found Robert Sutherland, 42, of Helena Avenue, guilty of felonious assault with a firearm specification and not guilty of a count of aggravated assault.

Jurors reached their verdict at 6:40 p.m. in the courtroom of Judge Shirley J. Christian.

Prosecutors say Sutherland was involved in a shooting June 2 that left a man paralyzed. Prosecutors say Sutherland shot Eric VanCobb, 35, during a drug deal that went awry at a home in the 900 block of West Indianiola Avenue.

Sutherland had claimed self-defense.