Knife incident

Knife incident

YOUNGSTOWN

A man was arrested on a felonious-assault charge Monday after witnesses told police he punched one woman and cut two men with a knife.

Officers were called about 11:25 p.m. to Lyden Avenue, where they were greeted in the street by Phillip Cox, 44, of Lyden Avenue, who was bleeding from the face and had two black eyes.

Lyden told police he was attacked after he called a woman a name. Witnesses, however, told police Cox called the woman a name, then punched her in the face. When two men intervened, Cox swung a knife wildly, cutting one of the men on the cheek and the other on the hands.

One of the men punched Cox to get him to drop the knife, reports said. Officers found the knife nearby, and Cox was booked into the Mahoning County jail after he was examined at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

Scooter accident

HOWLAND

The Warren Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating an injury crash that occurred Tuesday about 10:58 a.m. on North River Road near Elm Road.

A mobility scooter, operated by Paul Horning, 90, of Warren, was crossing North River Road from the Chase Bank parking lot into the Walgreens parking lot.

As the scooter was crossing, it was struck by a 2015 GMC SUV, operated by Catherine Karafa, 74, from Warren, who was making a left turn onto North River Road from the Walgreens parking lot, the patrol said.

Horning was transported to St. Elizabeth Hospital with serious injuries. Karafa was not injured.

The crash remains under investigation and charges are pending, a news release said.

New principal

BOARDMAN

The school board has approved the hiring of the new principal for Stadium Drive Elementary.

Billy Jo Johnson will begin the position July 31, replacing former Principal Jim Stitt, who is retiring.

She will start with a salary of $74,190 per year with standard benefits over a three-year contract.

In other business, the board combined two emergency tax levies – one generating $1,468,744 and another generating $3,178,231 – into one replacement levy for a combined total of $4,646,975 for a period of 10 years.

School officials said there will be no increase in taxes.

Tim Saxton, district director of operations, said this will help save money for the five- and three-year renewal cycles for the levies, which cost between $2,000 and $7,000 to put on the ballot.

If the levy is approved in November, tax revenue will begin in 2018.

Stolen vehicle

BOARDMAN

Police arrested a Youngstown man accused of driving a stolen vehicle Saturday afternoon.

Eshone Christian, 24, of Monte Cello Boulevard, reportedly flagged down an officer at 4 p.m. on Meadowbrook Boulevard, asking for directions.

But police dispatch advised the officer that the Chevrolet Cruze was reported stolen from Liberty Township.

Christian was transported to the Mahoning County jail and was arraigned at the Mahoning County Court Area on Wednesday with bond set at $4,000.

Road to close for event

WEst FARMINGTON

Girdle Road, north of Farmington to Larson-West Road, will be closed from 7 to 9 p.m. July 29 for the West Farmington Festival 5K race/walk.

The recommended detour route is east on state Route 88 and north on state Route 534.

Call to voters

BOARDMAN

The Hillary Clinton campaign will call voters seeking support for the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate starting at 6 p.m. Thursday out of 4927 Market St.

The campaign will use that location throughout the election for phone banking.

In the next couple of weeks, the Clinton campaign will open a Mahoning Valley office.

Heart-monitor theft

YOUNGSTOWN

Bond was set at $15,000 Tuesday for a woman arraigned in municipal court on charges she took a heart monitor from St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

Kendra Hazlett, 26, no address listed, was arraigned before Judge Elizabeth Kobly on charges of theft and OVI.

Reports from Mercy Health System police said Hazlett was a patient with a police hold on the OVI charge when she got out of her hospital room about 4 p.m. Sunday. Police searched for her and found her on Market Street near the Mahoning County Courthouse.

Reports said when Hazlett was in the hospital she had a heart monitor attached to her, but when she was found by police, the monitor was nowhere in sight and she was verbally abusive toward officers when they asked her about it. She was taken back to the hospital and later booked into the county jail.