Committee meeting

Committee meeting

YOUNGSTOWN

City council’s housing and economic development committee will meet at 5 p.m. today on the sixth floor of city hall to discuss a proposal from a health care provider to purchase the former Bottom Dollar supermarket on the South Side. The committee will discuss plans for ONE Health Ohio – which provides medical, dental and behavioral health services with a focus on lower-income people – to buy the former grocery store on Glenwood Avenue. The store closed in January 2015, and the city unsuccessfully tried to find another supermarket to locate there. If ONE Health Ohio opens a facility there, it would include a food-distribution component.

Drugs and ammo

YOUNGSTOWN

Reports said police found .45-caliber ammunition and a bulletproof vest about 12:10 a.m. Sunday after pulling over a van for a broken rear window at West Boston Avenue and Market Street. Reports said the driver, Terence Langston, 33, of East Boston Avenue, smelled of marijuana and admitted having two bags of suspected marijuana.

Police checked inside the van and found the vest, a magazine for a .45-caliber pistol and loose .45-caliber rounds inside the vest pockets. Langston also told police he had another bag of suspected marijuana inside his underwear, reports said.

Police issued Langston citations for driving under suspension, possession of marijuana and expired plates. Langston has prior convictions for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Charged with theft

AUSTINTOWN

Officers arrested a man accused of stealing several packages of cheese, cold-cut sandwiches and 10 pineapples from a Mahoning Avenue grocery store.

According to the report, William Matsouris, 44, of North Duck Creek Road, North Jackson, filled three recyclable bags in his cart with the items listed, walked past the registers in the store and to the parking lot with his merchandise on Friday afternoon. Police charged him with theft. They also advised him not to return to the business or else he would face arrest for criminal trespassing.

Veterans fair

YOUNGSTOWN

A job, training and benefits fair for military veterans will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday in Lobby B at Oakhill Renaissance Place, 345 Oak Hill Ave. Representatives of agencies that assist veterans will be present, including those of the Social Security Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Mahoning County Veterans Service Commission and Department of Job and Family Services. For information, call Melissa Sellers at 330-740-2600, extension 8605.

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