GIRARD -- A vigil is scheduled for 6 p.m. tonight at the Girard High School Arrowhead Stadium for slain Girard police officer Justin Leo, 31. Attendees are asked to bring a candle. Leo, a five-year veteran of the department, was shot around 10:15 p.m. Saturday at 408 Indiana Ave. while responding to a domestic violence call, according to investigators. He died just before midnight during surgery at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.
MIAMI — A monster Hurricane Irma roared into Florida with 130 mph winds making landfall at Marco Island about 4 p.m. Sunday. The storm could stick around for a sustained assault on nearly the entire Sunshine State, flooding streets, knocking out power to more than 2 million homes and businesses and snapping massive construction cranes over the Miami skyline. The nearly 400-mile-wide storm blew ashore in the morning in the mostly cleared-out Florida Keys and then began a slow march up the stateás west coast. Forecasters said it could hit the heavily populated Tampa-St. Petersburg ...
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Irma gave Florida a coast-to-coast pummeling with winds up to 130 mph Sunday, swamping homes and boats, knocking out power to millions and toppling massive construction cranes over the Miami skyline. The 400-mile-wide storm blew ashore in the mostly cleared-out Florida Keys, then began a slow trek up the state's west coast, its punishing winds extending clear across to Miami and West Palm Beach on the Atlantic side. Irma was expected to reach the heavily populated Tampa-St. Petersburg area by early Monday, though in a much-weakened state. While it arrived in ...