YOUNGSTOWN A 13-year-old girl is in stable condition after falling from a bridge into the Mahoning River early Wednesday morning while attempting to retrieve a hat.

Youngstown police and fire crews responded to the area of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Fifth Avenue shortly after midnight following reports of a female screaming near the bridge.

Officers searching the area under the bridge, known locally as the "Peanut Bridge," discovered two people on the riverbank holding the teen. The bystanders told police they went down the bank and pulled the girl from the water after she fell.

According to the police report, the teen told officers she was walking downtown to view the scenery when her hat blew off. She attempted to catch the hat, slipped, and fell from the top of the brid

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