Pilot injured in crash

Pilot injured in crash

GUSTAVUS

The pilot of a single-engine aircraft that crashed while landing Monday night on a private airstrip on Gardner-Barclay Road suffered nonlife-threatening injuries, and a passenger refused treatment, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said.

The patrol’s Southington post has identified the pilot as Robert Gale, 71, of Jefferson. Louis Gale, 50, of Jefferson was a passenger. The report did not identify the relationship of the Gales.

The patrol said the crash occurred at 9:13 p.m. as Robert Gale tried to land the Diamond Aircraft DA40. The aircraft was too low on approach and struck a tree, forcing the plane down about a half-mile from the landing strip, the patrol said.

The crash remains under investigation by the FAA.

Serving sentence

WARREN

An Austintown woman began serving a 30-day jail sentence Monday after pleading guilty to trying to smuggle the drug Suboxone into the Trumbull County jail in 2016 by putting it into a greeting card and sending it to an inmate.

Stephanie Iudiciani, 33, of Norquest Boulevard, pleaded guilty earlier in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto the grounds of a governmental facility. She could have received up to three years in prison.

Iudiciani will be on probation for five years after her release, during which time she will be ordered to stay out of bars, consume no drugs or alcohol, continue with her drug-and-alcohol treatment program and refrain from visiting jails or prisons.

Sleep sacks for babies

WARREN

At 10 a.m. today, students and faculty from Kent State University at Trumbull’s nursing program will present sleep sacks for newborns at Trumbull Memorial Hospital.

A sleep sack replaces loose blankets in the crib so a baby will stay covered, protecting against the chance of a blanket covering a baby’s face and disrupting its breathing.

Over the past year, Kent State at Trumbull and its nursing faculty have focused on ways they could promote sleep safety in an effort to reduce the region’s infant-mortality rate.

Ohio has one of the nation’s highest infant-mortality rates at slightly more than 7.4 percent. The IMR in Trumbull County is slightly above the state average (7.6 percent), and in Mahoning County it is below (6.0 percent).

Issue 2 discussion

YOUNGSTOWN

A free town-hall discussion on Issue 2, the Ohio Drug Price Relief Act, will be at 6 p.m. today in the Coffelt Room in Kilcawley Center on the Youngstown State University campus.

Speaker is Tracy Jones, director of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Midwest Region. The event is sponsored by the National Society of Black Engineers and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity’s Psi Omicron graduate chapter.

Drug investigation

BOARDMAN

Township police Monday served a search warrant at a Cook Avenue apartment as part of a drug investigation, according to a police report.

Police reported finding a plastic bag with suspected drug residue on it in a bathroom trash can, three plastic bags in a kitchen trash can, a marijuana grinder and plastic bag in a bedroom and a gun magazine in a bedroom, according to the report.

No one was home when police searched the apartment, according to the report.

Public indecency

AUSTINTOWN

A township woman is charged with public indecency, accused of exposing herself while walking near Mahoning Avenue on Friday, reported 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner.

Leonila Adams, 60, of South Raccoon Road, was clothed by the time police arrived. She was told to remain clothed or face arrest, but she then exposed herself as the officer was leaving.

Adams was arrested Friday and released on summons Monday afternoon after her 1 p.m. court hearing.

Grant-seeker event

YOUNGSTOWN

Power of the Arts is offering a grant-seeker symposium at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 323 Wick Ave. Advance tickets are no longer available. Tickets at the door are $20.

The symposium brings together representatives of the Ohio Arts Council, Ohio Humanities Council, Ohio Citizens for the Arts, Mahoning Valley foundations, arts and culture nonprofits and individual artists to discuss arts and culture funding in the Mahoning Valley and in Ohio.