GREENSBURG, Pa. — A YMCA in western Pennsylvania is hoping to fill 20 vacant residential rooms with students from nearby colleges.
The Greensburg YMCA will begin housing college students in January. The city about 30 miles east of Pittsburgh is home to Seton Hill University, a private Catholic school with about 2,000 students, and the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, which opened last month with more than 100 students.
The student rooms became available when a youth shelter that occupied the YMCA building’s third and fourth floors closed recently. Students will be able to use the YMCA’s health and fitness equipment as an incentive to live there.
The YMCA stopped renting rooms to men in the 1960s.
Man charged with lawnmower DUI during run for beer
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BELLEVILLE, Ill. — With a revoked license because of a prior drunken-driving conviction, Dennis Cretton shouldn’t drive.
But authorities in southwestern Illinois say that didn’t stop the 49-year-old Belleville-area man from drunkenly driving up to a gas station for more beer — on his yellow riding lawnmower.
Cretton has been charged with felony aggravated driving under the influence after neighbors reported he was weaving in and out of traffic on his lawnmower Friday night. When deputies tried to stop him, authorities say Bretton drove the mower into his home’s front yard, his 12-pack of Milwaukee’s Best spilling onto the ground along the way.
Cretton is free on $10,000 bond. Calls to his home went unanswered Tuesday.
Family visits 52 zoos in 52 weeks
COLUMBUS, Ohio — It’s been a wild year for members of an Ohio family, who say they’ve accomplished a goal of visiting 52 zoos in 52 weeks.
Columbus resident Marla Taviano, her husband and three daughters began last August with the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky and spent weekends and vacations going to zoos across the country. Their visits included the Dallas Zoo, New York’s Central Park Zoo and the San Diego Zoo. Their Web site shows they wound up hitting 55 animal parks to see giraffes, reindeer and snow leopards.
From Associated Press reports
