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KSU event for ITT students

CHAMPION

Kent State University at Trumbull is offering an informational event at 6 p.m. Wednesday for students displaced when ITT Educational Services Inc. closed its chain of technical colleges.

The event, which is free and open to all former ITT students and their families, will provide information on acquiring transcripts, navigating financial-aid options and determining next steps for future academic pursuits.

The event will take place in the auditorium of the Classroom/Administration Building, 4314 Mahoning Ave. NW. Kent State Trumbull is waiving its $40 application fee for former ITT students.

School bricks

LORDSTOWN

As part of the Lordstown Apple Cider Festival this weekend, Lordstown schools are providing bricks to the public from the demolition of a former school building on Tod Avenue.

Student and staff volunteers will distribute them at the back of Lordstown Elementary School near the Lordstown SCOPE center. The distribution will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday and 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday.

Also taking place will be “Cider with the Superintendent and Principals” from 2 to 4 p.m. at the same location. The superintendent, K-12 lead principal and K-12 assistant principal will be available to discuss the school district’s present and future with anyone interested. Cider will be provided.

Road work detour

BELOIT

State Route 165 at Beloit-Snodes Road will be closed from Monday to Sept. 26 for a culvert replacement, the Ohio Department of Transportation announced. The detour will be U.S. Route 62 to state Route 534 to state Route 165.

Woman arrested

AUSTINTOWN

Officers arrested an Austintown woman on domestic-violence charges after an argument turned physical Wednesday night.

According to police, Abigail Luciano Acosta, 28, of Oakwood Avenue, scratched her boyfriend’s left eye, forehead, right shoulder and left arm during an argument at their home.

Although neither party wanted to pursue charges, officers charged Acosta with domestic violence because they determined she was the “primary aggressor,” reports said. She will appear in Mahoning County Area Court here Monday.

Grandmother guilty

EAST LIVERPOOL

A judge found a West Virginia grandmother guilty of child endangerment Thursday after she was found unconscious from an apparent drug overdose Sept. 7 in the front seat of an SUV with her 4-year-old grandson in the backseat.

According to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, Rhonda Pasek, 50, was sentenced to 180 days in jail, the maximum sentence for child endangerment, and given a $280 fine in an East Liverpool courtroom.

James Lee Acord, 47, was also in the vehicle unconscious. Acord was convicted of child endangering and a traffic violation. He was sentenced to a year in jail.

Death ruling

WARREN

The Trumbull County Coroner’s Office has ruled that a man, 46, found dead by a Warren G. Harding High School student Tuesday morning on his way to school died of heart disease.

The student, 18, found the body of Stephen M. Luebking of Tod Avenue Southwest on the steps behind a home in the 100 block of Mulberry Street Northwest about 8 a.m. The student notified police.