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Cafaro Foundation awards announced
NILES
The Cafaro Foundation is awarding a total of $55,000 to 22 students from Trumbull and Mahoning counties. Trustees of the Cafaro Foundation selected the scholarship recipients based primarily on the students’ academic merit, while also considering their financial need and the recommendations of teachers and guidance counselors.
The Cafaro Foundation is a charitable entity established by the Cafaro family in memory of William M. Cafaro, founder of the real-estate development and management company that bears his name.
Ribbon cutting set
LIBERTY
The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Pizza N’ Gyro Place at 3707 Belmont Ave. at noon today.
After opening his first Pizza N’ Gyro Place at 2841 Market St. in Youngstown in 2013, owner Afzal Cheema has opened a second location in Liberty.
The eatery offers a selection of its signature gyros with Indian yellow rice, lamb kabobs and seekh kabobs.
ECC Foundation distributes funds
WARREN
The Warren Area Chamber of Commerce Education, Civic & Cultural and Economic Development foundations distributed funds to organizations in 2016 for various projects. The foundations, established in 1991 and managed by the chamber, exclusively funds projects in Trumbull County.
The Education, Civic & Cultural Foundation distributed a total of $11,000 to the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra and Kent State University Foundation. The ECC Foundation was unable to distribute additional funds due to investments of all types underperforming for the past three to four years. The foundation board decided to not make any funding commitments for this year.
Deputies: Road rage led to fatal shooting
MAGNOLIA, Texas
Sheriff’s officials in a Texas county say a 21-year-old man is in custody and booked into a county jail for what authorities are calling a road-rage slaying of a 56-year-old man.
Montgomery County Sheriff’s Lt. Scott Spencer says Christopher Delacruz was detained without incident Saturday night not far from where the body of Jose Augusto Lozada was found on the side of a road in Magnolia, about 20 miles southwest of Conroe.
Authorities say Lozada was shot in the head and torso when Delacruz, also from Magnolia, followed him home after a minor collision. When an argument ensued, Spencer says Delacruz pulled a semi-automatic pistol from his vehicle and began firing.
Interstate reopened after collapse in Ga.
ATLANTA
All lanes of a heavily used interstate in Atlanta have been reopened – about six weeks after a highway bridge collapsed because of a massive fire.
Local news reports say southbound lanes on Interstate 85 were reopened Saturday evening, one day after drivers began using lanes heading north. The roadway had been shut down since March 30 when a blaze beneath the bridge burned so hot that it caused the overpass of steel and concrete to collapse.
The collapsed bridge forced Atlanta commuters onto congested alternate routes or transit systems. Officials urged employers to allow employees to telecommute or change their schedules as construction crews worked round-the-clock shifts.