West Side Cats sale

West Side Cats sale

AUSTINTOWN

West Side Cats is hosting its first garage sale of the season from 3 to 6 p.m. today at West Side Cats, 2217 Mahoning Ave.

The sale continues from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Items for sale include books, clothes, furniture and collectibles. The garage sale also is asking for the donation of those items for resale. The only items not welcomed are electronics.

Niles roundtable

NILES

Niles City Council will have a roundtable meeting at 4 p.m. today in council room 1 of the city building, 34 W. State St.

Making catapults

NORTH LIMA

South Range Middle School students get to make a giant catapult today thanks to two senior students, the high-school principal and a donation from Home Depot.

When boys in fifth through eighth grade chose to create homemade catapults for their end-of-the year activity, Steve Rohan, high-school principal, and Hoyt Lucas and Brayton Taylor, senior students, volunteered to help teach students how to make them. A manager from Home Depot learned about the project and donated all the materials necessary to complete the catapults.

Sentenced in assault

WARREN

Jordan J. Devlin, 20, of Tod Avenue in Warren and Freedom Street in Alliance was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of felonious assault and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

The charges stem from an early morning Oct. 7, 2015, incident on Lockwick Drive Northwest in which Devlin was accused of firing a handgun in the direction of a man, then looking up at a woman in an upstairs apartment, pointing the gun at her and saying, “You’re next.”

There was a warrant for Devlin’s arrest at the time accusing him of menacing the woman earlier, police said. No one was injured.

I-80 crash injures 2

AUSTINTOWN

Two people suffered injuries, thought by Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers to not be life-threatening, in a two-vehicle crash in the eastbound lane of Interstate 80 Thursday just east of the state Route 11 interchange.

The accident, which was reported at 2:30 p.m., caused one lane to be closed for nearly two hours and traffic to back up, said the patrol’s Canfield Post. The injured people were taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital for treatment.

Robbery sentence

WARREN

Lamar Q. Holmes Jr., 20, of Ninth Street in Struthers, one of three people charged in an Oct. 10, 2015, home-invasion robbery with a knife on Syme Street in Brookfield, was sentenced Thursday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to five years in prison.

He pleaded guilty earlier to aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, felonious assault, kidnapping and grand theft.

Police said Holmes, Sade N. Tibbs, 19, of Iowa Street Northwest and Pabalo Valentin Jr. of Redford, Mich., went to Holmes’ house with Tibbs apparently trying to preoccupy the victim in his bedroom so Holmes and Valentin could break in.

Tibbs and the victim communicated on Facebook before the incident, and the victim allowed her in when she arrived. Holmes and Valentin broke in and attacked the victim, police said. Valentin was sentenced to six years in prison in April.

Bike Safety Day set

WARREN

The Howland Fire Department and Howland Training Center will have a Bike Safety Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Howland Township Park, 2000 Rosegarden Drive NE. It will focus on teaching children the needed safe techniques when riding their bicycle. Attendees will be fitted with a free bicycle helmet compliments of this year’s grant funding from the American Academy of Pediatrics.