Giving to COMPASS

Giving to COMPASS

YOUNGSTOWN

The AT&T Inc. Fund and the Cleveland Foundation was to make a $15,000 contribution at 2 p.m. today to COMPASS Family & Community Services in support of the COMPASS Workforce Development Work Readiness Training Workshops, which provide individuals recruited for this project with work-readiness training, job placement, retention and advancement services.

The donation will help serve 48 individuals in the Mahoning Valley who struggle with obtaining, keeping and advancing in jobs. The COMPASS Workforce Development Program provides work-readiness training that focuses on the workplace skills identified by employers as needed for new hires. Upon completion of the training, participants receive job planning and placement assistance until they obtain employment.

Police: Mom forced son, 5, to smoke crack

PITTSBURGH

Police have charged a Pittsburgh woman after they say she physically abused her 5-year-old son, left him alone for extended periods of time and forced him to smoke crack cocaine.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports Pittsburgh police obtained an arrest warrant Tuesday for 39-year-old Rochelle Daniels on charges including endangering the welfare of children and simple assault.

Police say the boy’s aunt brought him to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC on Sept. 5 after the child said his mother gave him something to smoke that investigators believe was a crack pipe.

The child has been in the custody of his aunt since Aug. 27 after Daniels left him at a home in Crafton Heights and never returned.

Georgia carries out 8th execution of ’16

ATLANTA

Georgia on Wednesday carried out its eighth execution of 2016, putting to death a man who told a psychiatrist he didn’t really want to die but also didn’t want to continue living in prison.

Warden Eric Sellers told witnesses Steven Frederick Spears’ time of death was 7:30 p.m. after an injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson. Spears, 54, was convicted of murder in the August 2001 slaying of his ex-girlfriend, Sherri Holland, at her home in Dahlonega, about 65 miles northeast of Atlanta.

With Spears’ death, Georgia has executed more people this year than any other state, including Texas which has executed seven.

Bombs kill at least 54

BEIRUT

Bombs rained down on rebel-held eastern Aleppo for a second-straight day Wednesday, pounding a district that houses several medical facilities, including the central blood bank, and forcing Syrian staff and patients in the only remaining pediatric hospital to cower in a basement as buildings collapsed around them.

At least 54 people were killed in airstrikes and artillery shelling across northern Syria, part of a long-anticipated offensive against rebel-held areas announced by Russia, a key ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Staff/wire reports