Girard News

CHOCOLATE EVENTS SET FOR VALENTINE'S DAY: With Valentine's Day this week, local events are planned at area libraries.

Girard police are investigating an early morning break-in at Brine Pharmacy. According to reports, the break-in happened around 3:45 a.m. Tuesday at the store, located at 906 N. State St.

GIRARD, Ohio - It has been six years since someone murdered Lena Cross and set fire to her Girard home killing her two sons.

WARREN WOMAN TO BE REMEMBERED: The second annual Helen L. Albert Celebration, "You Will Never Be Forgotten," is scheduled for 6 to 9 p.m. March 30 at the Hippodrome in Warren.

NILES, Ohio The New York-Penn League All-Star Game, presented by the Eastwood Mall, will be played for the first time in the Scrappers team history on Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at Eastwood Field.

A Girard man will spend eight years behind bars as part of a plea deal for stabbing a police officer last May.

Evidence video of Nicholas Christie in jail: See sheriff's office video of Nicholas Christie in jail before he is taken to the hospital.

SAVING BIRDS: The Audubon Society of the Mahoning Valley will present the movie "Saving Pelican 849," about bird rehabilitation during the Gulf oil spill, at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Mill Creek MetroParks farm, state Route 46, Canfield.

Donald "Don" R. Mackey, 80, died at 4:15 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, at Trumbull Memorial Hospital after a brief illness.

Passers-by at JGD Associates on Moore Road last week may have given a second look at a black Ford F-150 truck sitting outside the building last week, mostly because of the crowd standing around the idling vehicle with the raised hood.