CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK » TODAY’S ISSUE U DAILY BRIEFING, A2 • TRIBUTES, A8 • WORLD, A10 • BUSINESS, B5 • CLASSIFIEDS, B6 • PUZZLES, C3 GETTING INTO THE SWING OF TENNIS PLEADING GUILTY LACKING MAGIC Inner-city kids pick up a new sport Sentencing set in mall lot death Critic: ‘Despicable 3’ falters SPORTS | B1 LOCAL | A3 VALLEY LIFE | C1 50% OFF VOUCHERS. SEE DETAILS, A2 FOR DAILY & BREAKING NEWS LOCALLY OWNED SINCE 1869 FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 2017 U 75¢ ‘One big boom’: I-76 crash leaves 1 dead, 4 hurt By ED RUNYAN Emergency 80 them seriously, the Ohio State [email protected] Highway Patrol said. personnel NORTH JACKSON CRASH SITE MEANDER Lt. Jerad Sutton, commander examine the Orrin Hill, retired Jackson RESERVOIR of the Canfi eld post of the high- wreckage Thursday Township police chief, was way patrol, said one of the three after a fi ve- 45 80 tractor-trailer drivers failed to working in his yard Thursday Rd. Bailey vehicle crash morning when he heard an ex- 76 yield for traffi c that was stopped in the west- Mahoning Ave. North plosion coming from Interstate 76 in front of him because of the bound lanes 76. Jackson construction. of Interstate “It was just one big boom,” he THE VINDICATOR Robert Brock of Saratoga 76 that killed said, adding: “There was just construction zone near the Springs, Utah, was traveling a New Castle, tons of black smoke coming out state Route 45 overpass. west in his tractor-trailer when Pa., man and of there.” Mark Schaas of New Castle, he failed to stop and hit the rear injured four Hill was fi rst on the scene to Pa., was killed in the late-morn- of another tractor-trailer driv- others. discover a chain-reaction col- ing crash, which also left four ROBERT K. YOSAY lision on I-76 westbound in a other people injured, three of See CRASH, A6 THE VINDICATOR YOUNGSTOWN SCHOOLS Mohip’s ties YOUNGSTOWN THERMAL HINTS AT DOWNTOWN ENERGY CRISIS Boardman to fi rm from selects his Chicago Running out new chief past face of police By JORDYN GRZELEWSKI questions [email protected] of steam BOARDMAN By AMANDA TONOLI By KALEA HALL Todd Werth, head of the [email protected] [email protected] Federal Bureau of Investi- YOUNGSTOWN gation’s Youngstown offi ce, YOUNGSTOWN will be Boardman’s next The Youngstown school Youngstown Thermal police chief. board’s fi nance committee Chief Executive Offi cer Carl The town- chairman is questioning the Avers has been adamant in ship board district’s involvement with interviews this week that investigation, the PUCO of trustees a company with a “not-so- customers in his company’s stellar” past. energy network shouldn’t be staff on Thursday requested unanimous- Chairman afraid they will lose service the state immediately ask ly voted to Dario Hunt- despite reports of fi nancial the Ohio attorney general to select Werth er expressed woes. seek the appointment of a at a special receiver for the beleaguered meeting concern But his Werth about the im- company energy company. Thursday. The commission meets at Werth will replace Police plications of ;fnecfX[ conveyed VINDICATOR the district’s a different 2 p.m. today to consider the Chief Jack Nichols, who is EXCLUSIVE involvement story to the staff’s recommendation. retiring in January. “Through this review, staff The selection follows with Atlan- U PUCO staff of the tic Research Public Utili- determined Youngstown a monthslong process in staff ’s which township officials Partners at report ties Com- Thermal is unable to pay a commit- mission of utility suppliers, debt ser- narrowed the fi eld from 11 vice, and employee pay- tee meeting Ohio earlier See WERTH, A6 Thursday this month roll when those expenses night. when it told PUCO that the are due,” the report says. “I want to state had to intervene in “Therefore, the [PUCO] staff Mohip know why we Youngstown Thermal’s fi- determined the company is are spending nancial struggles because permitting or about to per- Campbell mom and wasting “the current inability of mit a breach of its duty to money with Youngstown Thermal to pay furnish adequate service to gets 4-year term not only its utility suppliers could re- its customers and is instead something sult in an energy crisis in insolvent and or in immi- that is not the downtown Youngstown nent danger of insolvency.” for abusing son area.” valuable to By JOE GORMAN As a result of an ensuing See THERMAL, A6 us, but also [email protected] Hunter something that could Below are excerpts from PUCO’s staff report regarding YOUNGSTOWN Youngstown Thermal: Prosecutors said a woman bring this district into disre- sentenced Thursday to four pute,” Hunter said. years in prison for abusing District CEO Krish Mo- her son began abusing him hip’s ties to the company almost from the time he date to his tenure in the Chi- came home from the hospi- cago Public Schools, when tal after his birth. he contracted with the fi rm Assistant for services. Prosecu- In Youngstown, Mohip tor Jennifer hired the firm about six McLaughlin months ago to search for told Judge principals, at a cost of R. Scott $12,500. Krichbaum But Hunter disapproves of of Mahon- the company because of its ing County Underwood murky past. Common Atlantic’s co-founder Jo- Pleas Court a son of Alicia seph Wise was fi red from his Underwood, 22, of Camp- position as Duval County bell, had fractured ribs that (Fla.) Schools superinten- were healing and fractures dent in 2007 before he and to his thigh and shins and See MOHIP, A4 See ABUSE, A6 inside Marisa Lowellville winemaker wins Sergi, INDEX founder, Business . B5 today CEO and Classifi eds . B6 over Walmart with her brand winemaker Comics . C4 at RedHead TWEETS SPARK OUTRAGE By KALEA HALL will be on the shelves of a Crossword . C3 Brands, President Donald [email protected] few dozen Ohio Walmart and Bill Daily Briefi ng . A2 Trump launched Editorial . A9 YOUNGSTOWN stores to start. Santangelo, a crude Twitter Marisa Sergi wrote in her “It felt like an out-of-body vice Legal ads. A8 attack on the looks president Lotteries . A2 memory book when she was experience,” Sergi said of and temperament in fi fth grade that she want- of sales, Society. C2 of a female TV per- Walmart’s accepting her ed to be a winemaker. pitched the Sports. .B1-4 sonality, drawing pitch. “I couldn’t believe RedHead Tributes. A8 howls of outrage. Today, the 23-year-old is in they gave me a chance to be Red Blend fact a winemaker, but more on their national stage. I was TV Grid . C3 DAILY BRIEFING, A2 to Walmart Valley Life. C1 than that: She’s an entrepre- extremely grateful and ex- this week Weather. A2 FIREWORKS FOR FOURTH neur with a fearless spirit. cited for the opportunity be- and were Listing of fi reworks displays and That spirit took her to Ar- cause I knew it was not easy successful. 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