Saturday, September 24, 2016
Food giveaways
YOUNGSTOWN
Two area churches are having food giveaways today:
Victory Lutheran Church, 2110 Glenwood Ave., from 9 a.m. to noon for residents of ZIP code areas 44502, 44507, and 44511 only. Participants should bring two forms of identification and bags or containers.
Beulah Baptist Church, 570 Sherwood Ave., from 10 a.m. to noon. Participants should bring identification and bags or containers.
Baby’s death
NEW CASTLE
Officers arrested a New Castle man after a 2-month-old baby died in his care. According to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, officers were called to an apartment on the 1100 block of Pin Oak Drive Thursday for an infant who was not breathing. The baby was transported to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead. New Castle Police officials said the cause of death was a skull fracture caused by blunt force trauma. Christopher Holmes, 22, of New Castle, the boyfriend of the child’s mother, was babysitting the child at the time of the incident and was arrested for criminal homicide, aggravated assault, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.
Business searched
CAMPBELL
Officers with the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s criminal investigation unit on Friday searched JCs Landscaping and Snow Removal on Coitsville Road for vehicles suspected as stolen.
The OSHP executed the search on a warrant through Campbell Municipal Court.
As of late Friday, no arrests had been made.
Atty. Pete Klimis, who is representing the business, declined to comment.
5K Run/Walk, picnic
CANFIELD
The Eastern Regional Kidney Foundation, which serves Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties, will host its 6th annual Kidney Disease Awareness 5K Run/Walk & Renal Family Picnic Sunday at Canfield Fairgrounds.
The run/walk starts at 11 a.m. Registration is at 9. All donations are disbursed via grants to aid in renal support-related expenses. Many of the patients receiving grants depend on this funding for their survival.
A free picnic will take place after the walk for walkers, patients and families, in the fairgrounds Commercial Building. The picnic honors and remembers dialysis patients and kidney-transplant recipients and their families.