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Concert of Giving

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Area Community Concert Band and Stambaugh Chorus is hosting the sixth annual Holiday Concert of Giving at 4 p.m. Sunday at Stambaugh Auditorium. The concert raises money for Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley to feed hungry families in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

Admission is a cash donation to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank, which requests no food donations for this event. For every $1 given, the Food Bank can distribute $11 worth of food to families in need. Selections by the Stambaugh Chorus include movements from “The Magnificat,” by J.S. Bach, and “The First Noel.” Band pieces include “Let There Be Peace On Earth” and “’Twas The Night Before Christmas,” an arrangement for band and narrator. The finale includes “White Christmas” and “The Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s “Messiah.”

Visit www.mahoningvalleysecondharvest.org or call 330-792-5522 for information on the food bank.

Bicycles on the road

COLUMBUS

Drivers would have to stay at least 3 feet away from bicyclists on the road under legislation approved Thursday by the Ohio Senate.

House Bill 154 moved on a vote of 30-1 and, pending concurrence by the Ohio House on amendments, will head to Gov. John Kasich’s desk for final enactment.

Current state law requires vehicles to pass bicyclists at a “safe distance,” though an actual measurement is not defined. HB 154 would add a 3-foot rule to state law, something more than 20 other states and several Ohio cities already have adopted.

Arrest in fire shooting

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown police have arrested a man who was arguing with Youngstown firefighters at a fire scene late Monday at Halleck and Elm Streets, but as of late Thursday, had not tied him to the shots fired at a firetruck, wounding one firefighter, as it left the scene of the vacant house fire.

Lt. Paul Lutton, who was shot in the leg, was released from the hospital Tuesday. A second bullet passed through the cab door and the turn-out jacket of another firefighter, missing his chest by inches.

Police had been sent to the scene Monday after firefighters complained about the man yelling at them. They heard the shots, which Detective Lt. Doug Bobovnyik said were fired from an assault-style weapon, judging from shell casings found.

Arrested by marshals

YOUNGSTOWN

U.S. marshals took two people into custody Wednesday who were arguing outside a West Boston Avenue house where the marshals were seeking information on a wanted subject.

Reports said one of the two people fighting, David Higham, 24, told marshals the woman he was arguing with, Margo Smith, 33, no address listed, had heroin on her. Smith was searched by a female marshal, and a dose of heroin was found in her sock, reports said. Higham was taken into custody on a warrant from municipal court for a probation violation. Both were booked into the Mahoning County jail.

Collecting winter wear

YOUNGSTOWN

Mahoning Valley Lutheran Church Association is collecting new winter hats, gloves and scarves through Sunday. The winter wear will be available from 9 to 11 a.m. Dec. 17 at Victory Lutheran Church, 2100 Glenwood Ave., as part of its monthly food distribution by the eight churches in the association.

Reported stabbing

WARREN

A 40-year-old man of Lexington Avenue Northwest said his brother stabbed him in the upper back early Thursday after they argued.

The victim said the two “decided they were going to fight one another out in the yard because they didn’t want to mess up their mother’s home,” according to a police report.

The victim “went outside and called for his brother to come out and fight him” at 12:15 a.m., police said.

A few minutes later, the brother came out holding a large kitchen knife, “rushed him with the knife and swung the knife at him like a hammer.”

After the stabbing, the suspect “went back in the house,” police said, adding the victim was intoxicated.

The suspect ran down the street several minutes later. The victim went to the hospital for treatment.

2 wounded in shootout

HERMITAGE, PA.

Two men were wounded, one critically, after a shootout at about 6:30 a.m. Thursday in the parking lot of a Highland Road apartment complex near Dutch Lane.

Police Chief Eric Jewell said in an email the two people involved know each other and the shooting may have been retaliation from an earlier incident.

The person who was critically wounded is being treated at a trauma center, but Jewell did not say where.

Boil advisory lifted

BROOKFIELD

The Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer’s Office announced Thursday that the boil-water advisory issued Tuesday has been lifted for these streets: Wildwood Drive between Crestwood Drive and Northview Drive; Northview between Crestwood and Valley View drives; and Northview between Crestwood heading west to the dead end.