METRO DIGEST || Woman assaulted with rocks

Assaulted with rocks

WARREN

An Idylwild Street Northwest woman reported that a man tried to run her over with his car while she was walking on Idylwild at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.

The woman said she was walking with a friend when a gray vehicle stopped across the street from her, and the driver, whom she did not know, got out and started throwing rocks at her.

She started to run away, and the man got in the car and tried to hit her, but she “jumped out of the way.”

Tax nonpayment

YOUNGSTOWN

Jonathan M. Lawrence, 58, of Garrettsville, was sentenced to six months in prison, six months of house arrest and ordered to pay restitution of $160,000 for failing to pay employment taxes that he withheld from his employees’ paychecks.

During the time of the crimes, Lawrence was president and chief executive officer of Laurenco Systems of Ohio LLC, a company he established in 2006 with an office in Leavittsburg.

Over four years, Lawrence collected $350,000 of income taxes, Medicare and Social Security taxes from his employees’ paychecks, then failed to turn it over to the federal government, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Northern Ohio and IRS.

He also failed to pay the employer’s portion of the taxes – about $111,000 – to the IRS, the release says.

The government already has collected $140,000 from Lawrence.

Pa. road closure

GROVE CITY, PA.

State Route 208 in Pine Township, Mercer County, is scheduled to be closed to through traffic July 6-8 due to work to replace drainage pipes, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced Friday.

The closure will be in effect between midnight and 9 a.m. and will run from Blacktown Road (state Route 2006) to state Route 258 (Butler Pike). A detour will be posted using those roadways.

Work is expected to begin at midnight July 6 and end by 9 a.m. July 8.

The roadway will be open whenever the work zone is not active.

Wellness meeting

YOUNGSTOWN

The next African-American Wellness Committee planning meeting will be at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Rose Room in Cobbins Office Tower, 1350 Fifth Ave.

The fourth annual African-American Male Wellness Walk will be Aug. 20, beginning with health screenings at 7 a.m. at the Covelli Centre on Front Street, downtown.