METRO DIGEST || Warren bike trail name to honor Wonders

Bike trail name to honor Wonders

WARREN

Warren City Council has approved a name change for the Warren Greenway Bike Trail to the Garrett Wonders Bike Trail.

Wonders was a Warren native who graduated from Warren G. Harding High School and then Ohio State University in 2000 with a degree in engineering/physics. He earned a master’s degree in nuclear engineering.

He competed on the cycling team at the university and also ran marathons and triathalons. Wonders died March 10, 2004, after being struck by a pickup truck while cycling and training for the Olympic trials.

Shot in thigh

WARREN

A Liberty man, 20, was shot in the thigh at Jefferson and York Streets Southwest at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and was treated at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital.

The man said he was on the ground wrestling with an unidentified man in a fight when the other man pulled out a handgun and fired it at him.

He said the fight was over “he said, she said stuff.”

Stabbed while walking

WARREN

A city man, 21, said he was stabbed in the arm as he walked at 11 p.m. Wednesday on Kenilworth Avenue Southeast near Youngstown Road.

He said two males approached him and asked him why he was looking at them, then one pulled out a knife and struck him in the arm.

The man received stitches at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital.

Arrested at Target

NILES

Sabrina J. Hall, 26, of Lafayette Street in Niles and Hunter Street Northwest in Warren, was arraigned Thursday morning in Niles Municipal Court on a felony robbery charge after she was arrested at Target in Eastwood Mall on Wednesday.

Police said Hall pushed a loss-prevention officer at 2:40 p.m. while the officer was trying to detain her on suspicion of shoplifting. Bond was set at $5,000. No plea was entered. If convicted, Hall could get eight years in prison.

$50,000 fire loss

WARREN

Investigators say the origin of a fire that destroyed a home at 2:16 a.m. Thursday at 723 Glenwood St. NE is suspicious.

No one was home at the time, but someone had been living there about a week earlier, fire Chief Ken Nussle said. The home did not have natural gas, but the electricity was still working.

The home burned into the basement, causing a loss of $50,000. No one was injured.

7th Ward conversation

YOUNGSTOWN

Basia Adamczak, the Democratic nominee for the 7th Ward city council seat, will have a “corner conversation” with residents at 11 a.m. Saturday in a parking lot at the corner of South Heights and Sheridan Road. She will discuss her campaign goals and platforms and answer questions from residents.

Breast cancer tourney

AUSTINTOWN

The sixth annual Saving Second Base coed softball tournament for breast cancer is Sunday at Austintown Township Park on Kirk Road. The opening ceremony is at 7:45 a.m.

The ROCcK Choir will sing the national anthem, and breast-cancer survivor Patty McShuley, who has a foundation that helps women with wigs, scarves and overall feeling better during treatment, will throw out the first pitch.

Six teams with four female players each will play a double-elimination tournament.

From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., local model Lisa Neeld-Infante will sign autographs. Also, there will be an auction and breast-cancer items, such as T-shirts, for sale. All money raised stays in the community to help patients and their families with day-to-day expenses not covered by insurance.

Miller on probation

WARREN

Timothy Miller, 49, of Southern Boulevard Northwest, was placed on five years’ probation this week in Warren Municipal Court after pleading guilty to charges related to a police standoff in July.

He was convicted of misdemeanor using weapons while intoxicated and inducing panic stemming from a four-hour standoff at the Southern Boulevard address where he barricaded himself in the house. He eventually surrendered to police. He is ordered to possess no firearms during his probation.