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Grieving program

YOUNGSTOWN

The public is invited to A Time For Recovery Outreach to better understand the grieving process at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County’s main branch, 305 Wick Ave.

Speaker Amanda Hildebrand from All Care Hospice will be teaching creative techniques on the grieving process.

For information, contact Ramona Martin Jones at 330-565-2118 or visit A Time For Recovery on Facebook.

2 trucks collide

BROOKFIELD

Two trucks collided Wednesday afternoon and diverted traffic on state Route 62 in the township. According to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, responders arrived at the scene near the Ohio-Pennsylvania line around 1:30 p.m. No injuries were reported. The Ohio State High Patrol temporarily diverted traffic to Chestnut Ridge Road.

Sentenced to 6 years

WARREN

Gregory Eisenmann, 22, of Newton Drive was sentenced to six years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to aggravated robbery and felonious assault for robbing and assaulting a 21-year-old woman Jan. 27 in Everett Greathouse Park in Newton Falls. Police said Eisenmann threatened the woman while trying to rob her, then hit her in the head with a handgun when she refused to give him anything. The woman suffered a cut on her head. Eisenmann stole $10 in cash and a small amount of marijuana from her. According to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, police also arrested a boy, 15.

New hire

BOARDMAN

The township announced the hiring of Krista Beniston as the new director of zoning and development. Trustees hired her at their meeting earlier this week, and she accepted the position Wednesday. Her contract is for three years at $60,236 annually. She officially starts Aug. 1.

OVI, drug citations

YOUNGSTOWN

A Campbell man was issued citations Tuesday for operating a vehicle while impaired and possessing a drug-abuse instrument after reports said he was behind the wheel of a car that crashed into a house about 5:30 p.m. in the 1500 block of Oak Street on the East Side.

Reports said officers and paramedics found Phillip Kindinis, 32, passed out behind the wheel of the car with a needle and lighter next to him. Kindinis was revived with the anti-opiate drug Narcan, reports said, and taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital to be examined.

Plant giveaway

WARREN

All Warren residents are welcome from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Blue Jean Nursery, 3580 Parkman Road, for a vegetable plant giveaway.

Special meeting

CANFIELD

Canfield school board, 100 Wadsworth St., will have a special meeting at noon today.

Court ruling

COLUMBUS

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled it does not have jurisdiction to hear an appeal in the Jacob Larosa murder case and is sending it back to Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. The majority of the justices refused to hear an appeal of a decision by a county juvenile court judge to have Larosa, 16, of Niles, tried as an adult in the March 31, 2015, murder of his neighbor, Marie Belcastro, 94.

Larosa, of Lafayette Avenue, is charged with aggravated murder, attempted rape, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary. If convicted, he could get life in prison with no chance of parole. He was 15 at the time of the murder. A jury trial is set for Sept. 19 before Judge W. Wyatt McKay.