A story in the Mansfield News Journal is no doubt bringing a smile to Eddie Eagle’s face today…

Hedges Elementary School fourth-graders Jackie Williams, James Wilson and Trevon Brown said they felt like "heroes of the day" Friday.

The boys were honored at school by the Mansfield Police Department and Mayor Lydia Reid for doing the right thing after finding a loaded gun in an alley while walking to school in February.

"They left it lay," Mansfield police DARE officer Jack Shay said.

The boys told Principal Andrea Moyer, then she and the boys returned together to the alley. Moyer called police.

Shay commended the boys for acting correctly when they saw the gun.

"They did all the right things," he said.

On Friday, the boys each received a certificate honoring them for their actions from Mansfield Police Chief Phil Messer. He was accompanied at the school assembly by Reid, Shay, Assistant Chief Jim Boyer and Dan Martincin, a Mansfield community policing officer.

According to the story, Williams and Wilson both said they knew not to touch the gun because they could get hurt and get in trouble.

The Eddie Eagle GunSafe® Program, created in consultation with child psychologists, teachers and law enforcement personnel, is designed for kids in pre-K through third grade and teaches four simple reactions to a gun: Stop. Don't touch. Leave the area. Tell an adult.

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The Fremont News Messenger is reporting that a Columbus man was arrested for his alleged involvement in a robbery Friday morning in which three men held up the “no-guns” Croghan Colonial Bank at gunpoint. The other two suspects are still on the loose.

From the story:

Michael Kevin Gainous, 37, was arrested after he tried to elude police in a vehicle during a pursuit just outside Fostoria. Troopers from the Fremont Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol chased two vehicles on Ohio 12 shortly after the robbery, and one of the vehicles entered Fostoria's city limits before it crashed. According to the report, Gainous then fled on foot but was quickly captured. He is being held in Lucas County.

According to a press release from the Cleveland Disivion of the FBI, three black males entered the bank at 1315 E. State St., at about 10:30 a.m. Two of the suspects were armed with pistols, but no shots were fired and no one was injured. The men left the scene in a blue Chevrolet Caprice with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Fremont police were unable to locate the remaining suspects and notified the Toledo and Sandusky offices of the FBI. The investigation was turned over to the Sandusky Branch of the FBI.

According to the story, the last bank robbery in the immediate area occurred in Old Fort at the Old Fort Banking Company in March of 2002.

Contact information for Croghan Colonial Bank and other dangerous locations is available on OFCC's Do Not Patronize While Armed database.