radioNOVO News for New Castle/Youngstown/Butler/Hermitage 07-10-26

Good morning.Former First Lady Michelle Obama will officially headline a major regional speaker series in Western Pennsylvania this fall. The nonpartisan Jefferson Educational Society announced that an evening conversation with Obama will take place on October twelfth at the Erie Insurance Arena. Tickets are scheduled to go on sale to the general public next week.Meanwhile, twenty-five-year-old Robert Powell of North Carolina has been sentenced in Mahoning County Court to up to seven and a half years in prison for a drunk driving crash that killed sixty-two-year-old New Castle resident John Kulnis.And Butler Police have formally charged fifty-one-year-old Lashawn Barber with retail theft and reckless driving after he allegedly shoplifted from the local Walmart and crashed his getaway vehicle.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News.