Road closing

Road closing

AUSTINTOWN

Raccoon Road will close for a time Wednesday night during the drawing for a jackpot at Barry Dyngles.

According to The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, 21 WFMJ-TV, the road will be closed for a half-hour near the time of the drawing of a card for the bar’s Queen of Hearts game.

The jackpot is expected to be about $450,000, and there are 10 cards left on the board. The full jackpot is won if someone correctly guesses the space that holds the Queen of Hearts card.

Teenager shot

WARREN

A Mulberry Avenue Northwest boy, 17, was treated at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital and then transferred to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for a gunshot wound to the back that he said he suffered at a house on Clearwater Street Northwest early Saturday.

The boy said he was inside the Clearwater address when a male confronted him and then fired at him as he went up the basement stairs. The man kept firing as the youth exited the back door. Two friends drove him to the hospital, he said.

Restitution ordered

WARREN

Holly Kahn Webber, 39, of South State Street in Girard and Niles-Cortland Road in Warren, was ordered Monday to pay $99,501 in restitution to the Trumbull County Department of Job and Family Services for committing welfare fraud of that amount.

Webber pleaded guilty earlier in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to five counts of attempted tampering with records.

Robber gets 6 years

WARREN

Daniel Campbell, 35, of West Park Avenue in Niles, was sentenced to six years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to the aggravated robbery of the Instant Cash Into Gold pawn shop on Youngstown-Warren Road in June.

Judge Peter Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court sentenced Campbell.

Police said Campbell was arrested at the Villa Arms Motel in Weathersfield Township shortly after the robbery thanks to a tip.

Police said Campbell pepper-sprayed a woman who was working at the business, grabbed the cash box and ran away.

Jeep reported stolen

AUSTINTOWN

After returning from vacation, a township couple discovered one of their vehicles also had a vacation.

The couple, of Pineridge Court, went on vacation Aug. 22 and came home Thursday to find a Jeep stolen from their garage. There were no signs of forced entry to the residence. Two computer laptops and a computer tablet also were taken from the home.

The Jeep was found in the parking lot of a Walmart in Port Orange, Fla., on Monday by authorities there. The Jeep was found with its keys and in working order.

Train open house

WARREN

The Riverside Railroad Train Club, Mahoning Valley’s only large-scale Garden Railroad Club, will host a fall open house from 4 to 8 p.m. Sept. 11 and from noon to 4 p.m. Sept. 12 at the SCOPE Center, 220 W. Market St.

The suggested donation for adults is $3, and children under 12 will be admitted free.

Call 330-770-8977 or visit riversiderr.org for information.

Man, 32, arraigned on burglary charges

AUSTINTOWN

An Austintown man was arraigned on burglary charges Monday afternoon.

Raymond S. Betts, 32, of North Roanoke Avenue, was arraigned on a first-degree felony burglary charge in Mahoning County Area Court here. His bond was set at $50,000 cash or surety, and he will be back in court at 9:30 a.m. for a pretrial hearing. He was arrested Aug. 25 after authorities were called to a home in the 200 block of South Main Street.

Betts and a juvenile were ordered out of the home by authorities and arrested on burglary charges. A methamphetamine lab was found inside the residence, but authorities said Monday that no one had been charged in that separate drug case.

Board work session

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown school board will have a work session at 5 p.m. today at the I. L. Ward Building, 20 W. Wood St. No formal action will take place at this meeting.