Brown to discuss lead-exposure crisis

Brown to discuss lead-exposure crisis

AUSTINTOWN

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Cleveland, will meet with Mahoning Valley officials and public-health experts at 11 a.m. today to discuss his legislative efforts to protect Valley families from toxic lead exposure.

Brown will meet at the Mahoning County Health Board offices, 50 Westchester Drive.

Brown has introduced legislation to better protect Ohioans from lead in water. The village of Sebring has been dealing with lead-water exposure since Jan. 21, and the lead crisis also continues in Flint, Mich.

Charges in accident

BOARDMAN

A township woman faces impaired-driving and child-endangering charges after an accident Wednesday night on Southern Boulevard.

Jessica Stiner, 31, of Meadowbrook Avenue, is charged with operating a vehicle while impaired, child endangering, driving under suspension and driving left of center, according to a police report. The child-endangering charges are because two 13-year-old children were in the car with her, according to the report.

Struthers projects

STRUTHERS

City council authorized a paving project for a portion of state Route 289. The city will pay for 20 percent of the project’s estimated $590,000 cost. The remaining funding will come from an Ohio Department of Transportation grant.

The project, which involves resurfacing about 1.5 miles of the road within city limits, is set for completion in 2018.

Additionally, the city has secured a state grant for adding a Garfield Street sidewalk with construction set for 2017. The city will pay 20 percent of the project’s estimated $204,000 cost, city officials said.

Robbed at gunpoint

YOUNGSTOWN

A 29-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday after he asked for a ride with three men to Huntington Bank in downtown Youngstown and withdrew $1,200, according to a police report.

The victim said when he offered to pay $10 for gasoline, one of the suspects said, “That ain’t all you got,” pulled a gun and hit the victim on the head, took the remaining $1,190 and pushed him out of the moving vehicle.

The victim said the robbers threatened to kill him and his family if he told police. No arrests have been made.

Charges pending

CORTLAND

Drug-related charges are pending in Central District Court against a Youngstown man and his fiancee, of Lakeshore Drive in Bazetta, after the male injected the woman with heroin at her home, and she overdosed about 7:50 p.m. Wednesday.

She was taken to a hospital for treatment, but she also faces possible charges, police said.

Police took David A. Benner, 35, of Elmwood Avenue in Youngstown, to the Trumbull County jail after he admitted injecting the woman.

He told police the two of them had starting using heroin about six weeks ago, but he could tell there was something different about it this time. Police confiscated some of the leftover heroin.

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