CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK » TODAY’S ISSUE U DAILY BRIEFING, A2 • TRIBUTES, A6 • WORLD, A8 • BUSINESS, B5 • CLASSIFIEDS, B6 • PUZZLES, C3 KEEPING HIS NFL DREAMS ALIVE BALLOT PROPOSALS GOOD DAY’S WORK 50% Boardman grad excels in AFL Group turns in petitions to clerk Critic: Salem’s ‘9 to 5’ thrives OFF SPORTS | B1 LOCAL | A5 VALLEY LIFE | C1 vouchers. DETAILS, A2 FOR DAILY & BREAKING NEWS LOCALLY OWNED SINCE 1869 TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017 U 75¢ Warren police: Shooting deaths of 3 in car involved no one else By ED RUNYAN volve anybody else,” Kistler said Monday. nounced dead at the scene. West was the [email protected] Kistler said it’s too soon to discuss who did driver of the car, which was owned by his WARREN the shooting or what led up to it. girlfriend, who was not in the car. Police say the Thursday night shooting One gun was found in the car when police Ju’wantae A. Harbin, 18, of Douglas Street deaths of two men and a woman in a car on arrived for the 7:13 p.m. shootings, Kistler Northwest, a passenger, was pronounced Southern Boulevard Northwest was “at least said. The shootings occurred just before and dead later at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hos- a double” homicide and involved only the just after the Cadillac crashed into the side pital. three people who died. West Joseph Harbin of a house at the corner of Southern Boule- The crash caused minor damage to the It could end up being ruled a triple ho- vard and Solar Street Northwest. home and more signifi cant damage to the micide, Sgt. Joe Kistler of the Warren police It apparently will involve no charges since Devonte L. West, 24, of Hamilton Street Cadillac. The Cadillac was traveling south said. Offi cials say they cannot recall Warren all three people involved are dead, Kistler Southwest, and Brandy M. Joseph, 37, of having a triple homicide. said. “We’re 100 percent sure it doesn’t in- Merriweather Street Northwest, were pro- See SHOOTINGS, A3 HEALTH CARE MAHONING COUNTY 2 Valley FAMILY, FRIENDS PAY TRIBUTE TO YSU ADVOCATE FRANK WATSON Woman gets hospitals A fond ‘farewell prison term rank among for crash that best in state By KALEA HALL to a great man’ killed friend [email protected] YOUNGSTOWN By JUSTIN WIER Two local Mercy Health [email protected] hospitals are ranked among YOUNGSTOWN the top in the state. “If we don’t get a handle on [the St. Elizabeth Youngstown opioid epidemic], society will be Hospital ranked No. 18 out of broken down,” Stephen Whiteley 26 ranking hospitals in Ohio, said. “Everybody’s a victim.” and St. Elizabeth Boardman Whiteley ad- Hospital ranked No. 22 in dressed Judge John the U.S. News & World Report M. Durkin of Ma- hospital rankings. honing County “For more than 100 years, Common Pleas Mercy Health-Youngstown Court on Monday at has been deeply committed the sentencing of a to our mission to improve the woman who caused health of our communities,” his granddaughter’s Mitchell said Don Kline, president death. and chief executive offi cer of Nicole Mitchell, 32, of Boardman, Mercy Health-Youngstown, pleaded guilty Monday to involun- in a statement sent to The tary manslaughter for her role in a Vindicator. “Honors like the fatal crash after a brief police chase U.S. News & World Report in January. Prosecutors dropped rankings validate the work six other charges in exchange for we’re doing to deliver on that the plea. mission. We’re grateful for Whiteley’s granddaughter, Taylor the recognition, and it will Duvall, was in Mitchell’s passenger serve as continued inspira- seat. She was 23 when she died in tion for our efforts to be the the crash. place where patients want to come for care, physicians See MITCHELL, A4 See HOSPITALS, A4 WORLD HOSPITAL RANKINGS Local results Sanctions may not U.S. News & World Report’s analysis of hospitals includes data from nearly 5,000 halt North Korea’s centers across multiple clini- cal specialties, procedures and conditions. Scores are ROBERT K. YOSAY | THE VINDICATOR nuclear program based on a variety of patient Ellen Tressel, wife of Youngstown State University President Jim Tressel, talks about her father, Frank C. Watson, during Associated Press outcome and care-related a memorial service at the Watson and Tressel Training Site on Monday morning. At left are the Rev. Susan Brown of factors. Canfi eld United Methodist Church and George Lee, a retired minister. WASHINGTON MERCY HEALTH The strongest sanctions yet U St. Elizabeth Boardman By AMANDA TONOLI “Today we say farewell to during one of Watson’s bad against North Korea could still Hospital: Regionally ranked [email protected] a great man,” said Watson’s days, he told his nurse he was prove no match for the communist No. 22 hospital in Ohio out country’s relentless nuclear weap- of 26 ranking hospitals. YOUNGSTOWN daughter, Ellen Tressel, on going to ask the blonde visiting Received high performance Monday afternoon. Ellen Tres- him to marry him. ons ambitions. marks in chronic obstructive early 400 friends sel is also the “The blonde was his wife of While the United States hails a pulmonary disease (COPD), wife of YSU nearly 68 years, Norma Wat- new package of U.N. penalties that heart failure and knee and family mem- President Jim son,” Tressel quipped. “It just could cut a third of North Korea’s replacement. exports, the sanctions Tressel. goes to show you if he had the U U St. Joseph Warren bers gathered in Watson, 92, chance, he would do it all over Analysis themselves aren’t the Hospital: Received high N American objective. died Thursday again.” performance marks in COPD Youngstown State University’s after a 10-year She added that the memorial They’re only a tactic for getting Kim and heart failure. Jong Un’s totalitarian government Watson and Tressel Training battle with Par- service wasn’t just to honor her U St. Elizabeth Youngstown kinson’s dis- Watson father, but her mother as well. to end its missile advances and Hospital: Regionally ranked Site to memorialize Frank C. ease. “I just thank her for the loy- atomic weapons tests, and there is No. 18 in the state. Received Parkinson’s is a disease that alty she gave to him on such little evidence to suggest this new- high performance marks in est round of economic pressure will nephrology, pulmonology, Watson, a YSU advocate, com- deteriorates the nervous sys- a wonderful journey,” Tressel tem. be more successful than previous heart failure and COPD. efforts. Source: U.S. News World & Report munity leader and family man. Ellen Tressel remembered See WATSON, A3 See N. KOREA, A4 DOWNTOWN YOUNGSTOWN inside INDEX Business . B5 today Street closures bring complaints from some businesses Classifi eds . B6 Comics . C4 OSWEILER TO START By DAVID SKOLNICK Crossword . C3 IN PRESEASON OPENER [email protected] Daily Briefi ng . A2 The Browns’ YOUNGSTOWN Editorial . A9 never-ending Some downtown business owners are Legal ads. B5 quarterback saga complaining about the impact the improve- Lotteries . A2 has produced yet ment projects to sections of Market and Fed- Society. C2 another surprise. eral streets will have on them. Sports. .B1-5 Brock Osweiler has “I think it’s awful,” Anne Massullo Sabella, Tributes. A6-7 risen from trade throw-in to preseason owner of Avalon Downtown, 17 W. Federal TV Grid . C3 starter Thursday. St., said of the project shutting vehicular traf- Valley Life. C1 SPORTS, B1 fi c in front of her restaurant. “Eighty percent of our business is take-out, so it will impact Weather. A2 ‘THE DIGITAL DIVIDE’ PLEASE RECYCLE us. People in Youngstown don’t like to walk. While Mahoning County has access to They like to pull up to the door and get their broadband, subscription lags because food. They won’t be able to do that.” of its expense, a survey found. Business at Silver’s Vogue Shop, 27 W. Fed- ROBERT K. YOSAY | THE VINDICATOR BUSINESS, B5 Market Street from Front to Commerce streets along with Federal Street from Phelps See STREETS, A3 to Walnut streets are closed through Aug. 26 for paving work. A1 - 08/08/17 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK TODAY ON VINDY.COM Find a job or vehicle on: 107 Vindicator Square, DAILY BRIEFING Youngstown, OH 44503 U vindyJOBS.com: 139 openings U Published daily. 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