Young Scholars

Young Scholars

YOUNGSTOWN

Ohio State University’s Young Scholars Program is looking to enroll Youngstown City School District students.

The program targets first-generation, academically inclined students who need financial help to enter and stay in college.

Students must be self-motivated, willing to work hard and not be intimidated by rigorous course work. They must complete an academically rigorous college-preparatory curriculum, maintain a minimum 3.3 grade-point average and attend the program’s required meetings and workshops.

The program is open to eighth- to 11th-graders. Information sessions will take place from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Jan. 10 at Choffin Career and Technical Center, 200 E. Wood St.

Educators to rewrite curriculum

YOUNGSTOWN

The Ohio Department of Education has selected two Youngstown City School District educators to rewrite curriculum.

Amy Glaser, a math coach at Martin Luther King Elementary School, will help revise the state’s math curriculum.

Michele McCaughtry, deputy chief of transformation and a gifted-students coordinator in the school system, will help revise the state’s English-language arts curriculum.

Charged with domestic violence

AUSTINTOWN

A township man faces a domestic-violence charge after an incident reported at a Countryside Drive residence Wednesday night.

Charged with misdemeanor domestic violence is Thomas Carelly, 44.

According to a police report, police were called to the home about 7 p.m. The victim reported Carelly smacked her in the head and pressed his finger tips into her eyes after she expressed disagreement with him when he fed their dogs table scraps for dinner. Officers reportedly observed injuries on the victim.

Carelly was arrested when he returned to the residence after fleeing. He is free on bond and is scheduled to appear in Mahoning County Area Court here Monday.

OVI sentencing

YOUNGSTOWN

An East Palestine man was sentenced Thursday in municipal court to 60 days in jail for his third offense for operating a vehicle while impaired. Judge Elizabeth Kobly also ordered Dustin Pierce, 31, to pay a $1,500 fine.

Pierce was cited July 9 for OVI on East Midlothian Boulevard near Rush Boulevard on the South Side after he was pulled over for speeding by a trooper with the Canfield Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

Reports said he smelled of alcohol, and a breath test showed that he had a blood-alcohol content of .111. In Ohio, a person is considered driving drunk if his or her BAC is .08 or higher. Pierce also had OVI convictions in 2007 and 2014, records show.

Drug charges

YOUNGSTOWN

A Lake Milton man is in the Mahoning County jail after reports said police found a bag of methamphetamine and four pills in his car during a traffic stop about 3:20 p.m. Wednesday at Erie Street and Boston Avenue on the South Side.

Reports said the driver, Leonard Brady, 44, of Warren Avenue in Lake Milton, appeared to be nervous when he was speaking with officers. A police dog, Hector, detected drugs in his car. Besides the methamphetamine and the pills, police also found a bag of suspected marijuana in a pill bottle and a marijuana pipe.

Brady was booked into the jail on two counts of possession of drugs, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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