Thursday, April 14, 2016
Road Not Taken sophomore conference
WARREN
Kent State University at Trumbull and the Trumbull Career and Technical Center, with additional support from the Kent State University at Trumbull Diversity in Action Council, will host its annual The Road Not Taken: High Math, High Tech, High Wage, High Impact Career Conference for Trumbull County Young Women in the classroom building on the campus of KSU-Trumbull from 8:15 a.m. to 1:40 p.m. Friday.
About 127 sophomore girls from 16 participating Trumbull County school districts are scheduled to attend. Participants are ranked in the top 15 percent of their graduating class and take accelerated math and science courses.
The students will have an opportunity to attend four of the possible 12 sessions available. All the sessions focus on career paths that may be underrepresented by women and require STEM skills.
Presenters are successful women in their fields.
Biting case sent to grand jury
AUSTINTOWN
A case involving a woman who bit a nurse was sent to a Mahoning County grand jury for further consideration.
Heather Baney, 44, of Canfield Road, Youngstown, pleaded not guilty when she appeared in Mahoning County Area Court here on a felony assault charge Wednesday.
According to the police report, Baney bit a nurse who was trying to assist in treating a cut on the back of Baney’s head at St. Elizabeth Emergency and Diagnostic Center, 6253 Mahoning Ave., on April 2. Reports also said Baney was intoxicated.
Emergency personnel completed treating Baney’s head wound before she was taken to Mahoning County jail the following morning.
Baney still has not posted her $5,000 bond, and if she does, she is not to contact the victim or St. Elizabeth facilities unless there’s an emergency.
Road rage arrest
YOUNGSTOWN
Apparent road rage resulted in two cars chasing each other and shots being fired about 2:50 p.m. Wednesday in the 800 block of Palmer Avenue. No injuries were reported.
According to Youngstown police, officers responded to the area when shots were reported. The incident started when one car cut off the other and the second car returned the favor, resulting in the drivers following each other, police said.
When police got the cars stopped they could not locate weapons or shell casing in the cars or in the area. However, officers did recover a pistol and five spent rounds in a home on Palmer.
Arrested and charged with felonious assault and having a weapon under disability was Leonard Ellis Jr. of Youngstown, who told police he fired one shot into the ground and several into the air as warnings. He is being held in the Mahoning County jail, according to police.
Injured in accident
GREEN
A Leetonia woman, Rebecca S. Dickey, 45, suffered nonlife-threatening injuries in a one-vehicle accident that occurred about 4:35 p.m. Wednesday on U.S. Route 62 north of Calla Road.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Canfield Post reported that Dickey’s vehicle was traveling southwest on Route 62 when it went off the left side of the highway and hit a traffic sign and a guardrail before rolling onto its side.
The cause of the accident is under investigation by the OSHP, which was assisted by Goshen Police Department and Green Fire Department.
Helping Second Harvest
Youngstown
Now through May 1, Dunkin’ Donuts in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties will be selling icons for a $1 donation to Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley.
With every icon purchased, the customer receives a $1 off coupon for a pound of coffee. For every $1 given, the food bank can distribute $11 worth of food to hungry families in the community.
Harvest for Hunger is one of the largest annual, community-wide food and funds drives in the nation, and takes place in 21 counties in Northeast Ohio during March and April.
Restoring a license
COLUMBIANA
Columbiana County Municipal Court judges Charles C. Amato and Mark Frost have partnered with the district office of the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles to present a license-restoration workshop from noon to 3:30 p.m. April 20.
The workshop will be the latest in a series of opportunities for suspended drivers to meet with BMV representatives at the municipal court building, 38832 Saltwell Road, to pursue opportunities to clear suspensions or get limited driving privileges to travel to jobs, school, family medical and dental appointments or other necessary destinations.
BMV personnel will accept payments, set up payment plans and offer advice during the workshop.
Reservations are required, and spots fill up quickly. Interested drivers are urged to call the court at 330-424-5326 to set up an appointment.
Grandma ID theft
BOARDMAN
Township police served a warrant to a Youngstown woman accused of theft by deception against her grandmother.
Joanna Button, 29, of Stratmore Avenue, was arrested at her home Tuesday on the felony charge. She was taken to the Mahoning County jail and is scheduled to appear in Mahoning County Area Court here today.
The charge, according to a police report, is tied to a case reported in August 2015 in which a female victim, 82, told police someone opened a home equity line of credit in her name. That person reportedly obtained credit cards tied to the line of credit, and had charged $3,000.
The arrest report indicates the victim is Button’s grandmother.
Grazed by a bullet
WARREN
A 33-year-old woman was grazed in the neck by a bullet at about 1:50 a.m. Wednesday inside her home in the 1300 block of Southern Boulevard Northwest.
Reports said the woman told police she was asleep when she heard gunshots, and heard several bullets go through the walls. She was grazed when she dove to the ground for cover, and was taken to St. Joseph Warren Hospital to be examined.
Reports said there were several bullet holes in the home and several shell casings were found in the street outside.
Federal warrant served
YOUNGSTOWN
A city man already in the Mahoning County jail on state charges was served a federal arrest warrant Monday on a charge of transportation of a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity.
A detention is expected to take place today for David Guevara Sr., 35, for taking a 15-year-old girl with him to Philadelphia to have sex. A news release from the U.S. Attorneys Office For The Northern District of Ohio also said that Guevara met the girl in July and had sex with her in a tent underneath a bridge, and he continued the sexual relationship with her when he went to Philadelphia.
Jail records show Guevara has been in the county jail since Dec. 8 on charges of criminal trespass, assault and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.