Arrested after OD

Arrested after OD

BOARDMAN

A township man faces a criminal charge after a drug overdose he reportedly suffered.

Township police Tuesday arrested Shawn Fekety, 41, of Sheridan Road on a warrant for inducing panic.

According to a police report, the charge stems from an April 23 incident in which police were dispatched to Fekety’s address for a reported overdose. Fekety was treated with naloxone, a medication that restores breathing for victims suffering an opioid overdose.

Fekety was released on a summons to appear in Mahoning County Area Court today.

Pipe bomb is disarmed

NILES

The Youngstown Police Department Bomb Squad today disarmed a functional pipe bomb at a home on Summerberry Lane.

Lt. Doug Bobovnyik, head of the bomb squad, said the bomb was armed with black powder and had a fuse.

Niles police said the situation is under investigation and more information would be available in the coming days.

County to refinance

WARREN

Trumbull County Auditor Adrian Biviano says the refinancing of about $15.4 million of Trumbull County debt from 2011 through this year will save the county more than $1.1 million.

The commissioners Wednesday authorized the refinancing of notes for projects such as $1.5 million for the Prosperity Waterline project in western Trumbull County and $1.25 million for renovations to the county jail and former Talmer Bank building on East Market Street downtown.

Competent to stand trial

WARREN

Jack Sheetz, 48, of Utica, N.Y., has stipulated to a report saying he’s competent to stand trial in a 1996 Howland Township rape and burglary case.

Sheetz is charged in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court with rape, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary, accused of breaking into the home of a 75-year-old woman on Orchard Avenue Southeast in December 1996 at night and raping her.

Howland police detectives submitted additional physical evidence from the case to the state’s crime lab in 2015, and DNA on an item matched DNA on file for Sheetz, leading to Sheetz’s indictment.

Sheetz was renovating the home next door to the woman and living there at the time of the crime, police said. The victim has since died.

Director at YSU named

YOUNGSTOWN

Jacob Ari Labendz has been named the new Clayman Assistant Professor of Judaic and Holocaust Studies and the director of the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies at Youngstown State University.

Labendz comes to YSU after completing a postdoctoral teaching fellowship in the Jewish Studies Program at Penn State University during the 2016-17 academic year. He spent the spring 2016 semester teaching in Prague.

Labendz has a doctorate in history from Washington University in St. Louis. His areas of research include European Jewish History, Modern Central European and German History and the History of the Modern Middle East.

Collected by CSEA

WARREN

The Trumbull County Child Support Enforcement Program worked on about 20,700 cases and collected more than $31 million in 2016, the agency reported.

Statewide, child support establishes paternity for more than 56,416 children born to unmarried parents each year. With nearly 941,000 cases, Ohio collects $1.8 billion dollars per year on average. Child support is a growing income source for single-parent families, making up 39 percent of their total income.

The program impacts more children than any other public program in Ohio, except public education, Trumbull County CSEA says. One in three children are affected by the program.

Video targets driving

ITASCA, ILL.

The National Safety Council is putting a new spin on the fight to end distracted driving by using a new music video, “Everybody Just Drive Tonight,” a cover song of the 1980s pop tune by Wang Chung, “Everybody Have Fun Tonight,” which uses a comedic edge to bring awareness to distraction, one of the leading causes of preventable road deaths, said Larry N. Kingston, executive director of NSC Ohio Chapter 25 in Youngstown.

A NSC survey of drivers to determine their behaviors and beliefs about distracted driving found that two-thirds of drivers have felt unsafe because of another driver’s distraction, but just 25 percent feel their own distractions have put themselves or others at risk.

“Everybody Just Drive Tonight” can be downloaded via YouTube, accessed at distracteddriving.nsc.org, and shared on social media using the hashtag, #JustDrive.

SR 164 to be restricted

SALINEVILLE

State Route 164 will be restricted soon in the village to make emergency repairs associated with a recent structure fire at the intersection of state Route 39, said the Ohio Department of Transportation.

Work will include cleaning up debris from the fire and rebuilding the embankment to support the roadway.

Two-way traffic will be maintained in one lane with temporary signals. Construction is expected to begin the first week of August and take about two months to complete. Contractor for this project, estimated to cost $200,000, is Alan Stone Co. Inc. from Cutler, Ohio.