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Pick up garbage bins

YOUNGSTOWN

The city’s 22,000 new 96-gallon garbage bins will start to be delivered at 7 a.m. today at the Covelli Centre on East Front Street.

The deliveries will continue daily, except on Sundays, through July 29 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Garbage collection days will remain the same. Information about the carts, including how to use them and a holiday schedule, is on the lid.

Carts should be placed at the curb, and residents are to begin using them as soon as they receive them. Questions about the carts should go to Robyn in the public works department at 330-742-8800. Questions about the sanitation bill should be directed to the water department at 330-742-8749.

City auditor’s oath

WARREN

Vince Flask, Warren’s new auditor, took the oath of office Tuesday at his office in city hall.

Trumbull County Democratic Party Central Committee members from Warren selected him over two others at a meeting recently to serve as Warren auditor through 2017. An election will take place in 2017 to fill the final two years of the term.

The position became vacant recently when former auditor Anthony Natale was convicted in federal court of conveying false information related to use of a weapon of mass destruction for sending a white powder in an envelope to his former employer in Boardman, which caused an evacuation in November 2014.

Flask has been 5th Ward councilman since 2004 and owns several Liberty Tax Service outlets in the area.

Motorcyclist injured

LIBERTY

The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating an accident where a motorcyclist was injured about 6:10 a.m. Tuesday after a collision with a bus.

A news release from the patrol said Troy Walsh, 44, of Niles, was driving east on Tibbetts-Wick Road, and the bus was driving west. The release said the bus failed to yield while making a left turn onto the state Route 11 southbound ramp into the path of the motorcycle.

Reports said Walsh tried to take evasive action but could not elude the bus. The bus driver, Richard Suriano, 72, of Espyville Station, Pa., was issued a citation for failure to yield.

Walsh was not wearing a helmet, the release said. He was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, where he was in critical condition.

Child endangering

YOUNGSTOWN

A Struthers woman, Bambi Shiley, 36, whom police say allowed three children to live in a feces-filled home, was sentenced Tuesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to a year in jail on a felony charge of child endangering. Shiley was originally charged with three counts of child endangering, two of which were dropped when she pleaded guilty to the crime in April, reported 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner.

Ronald Higham, 39, with whom Shiley shared a home, was sentenced in June to 18 months in jail for child endangering in the same case, and also was sentenced to an additional 18 months for failing to register as a sex offender as a result of a case from 2007.