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Aggravated-theft case

BOARDMAN

An aggravated-theft case in which a Youngstown woman is alleged to have stolen $200,000 from a township business will be presented to a Mahoning County grand jury, according to court records. That determination was made at a hearing Tuesday in Mahoning County Area Court.

Charged is Adriann Bunch, 44, of Sheridan Road. She is accused of stealing the money from her former employer, State Alarm Inc. on Market Street, over a period of several years. She worked as a payroll employee. Bunch was arrested in June. She is free on bond.

Court dismisses appeal in Hill case

WARREN

The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the federal public defender’s appeal to disqualify the Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office from Danny Lee Hill’s new trial appeal in the 11th District Court of Appeals.

Judge Diane Grendell, joined by Judge Thomas Wright, refused to disqualify the prosecutor’s office from the appeal.

The federal public defender’s office appealed Judge Grendell’s decision to the court. The prosecutor’s office had asked the court to dismiss the appeal.

Prosecutor Dennis Watkins said he is pleased the appeal was dismissed because starting over with a newly appointed prosecutor would have been a “tremendous burden on the justice system and added expense to the taxpayers.”

Hill, 50, is on death row for killing Raymond Fife, 12, in 1985. A visiting judge ruled in 2016 against Hill’s request to get a new trial based on the unreliability of bite-mark evidence used at Hill’s trial.

Crash breaks gas line

YOUNGSTOWN

A gas line was broken about 12:15 p.m. Wednesday after a Youngstown State University Police cruiser crashed into a building at Wood and Walnut streets while chasing a suspect.

The man was wanted for a crime on campus and was caught, a spokesman for YSU police said.

The road was closed down as Dominion East Ohio crews repaired the gas line. There were no injuries.

Info about overdoses

WARREN

The Trumbull County Mental Health and Recovery Board and Trumbull County Combined Health District believe people are getting the wrong message about how frequently the same people are being revived from drug overdoses.

Data collected by the health district in 2016 show that only 10 naloxone kits out of 350 were used to revive people who had previously been revived with the drug.

There is a misconception the same individuals are being revived over and over, said Kathy Parilla, public health nurse for the health department. For information or to obtain a naloxone kit, contact the health district at 330-675-2590, option 3, to schedule an appointment.

‘Bagels Over Berlin’

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown Area Jewish Federation will host a viewing of the first film of its film festival “Bagels Over Berlin” at 7 p.m. today at the Jewish Community Center, 505 Gypsy Lane. The viewing is free.

The film is based on interviews with Jewish airmen who fought in the U.S. Army Air Cops during World War II. Director Alan Feinberg reveals how Jews volunteered in large numbers for the Air Corps, later renamed the Air Force, the branch with the highest mortality rate at the first part of the war.

The film is being shown to honor Irwin Stovroff, a WWII POW and Youngstown resident, on his 95th birthday.

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