Sgt. Sherrey McMahon of the Warren Police Department sits in one of the patrol cars equipped with video and audio capabilities. The video monitor is at the upper right next to the camera. The department will install the equipment in all patrol cars over the next year to help police better comply with an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department.

Published on February 3, 2012

Ronald Catchpole of Howland, third from left, stands with the three men honored Wednesday by the Ohio State Highway Patrol for their actions Oct. 29, when Catchpole’s 1990 Pietenpol Aircamper crashed just after takeoff from Price Field on Pleasant Valley Road in Vienna Township. From left are Dr. Bob Bennett, Bob Boyd, Catchpole and Jeff Jardine.

Published on January 19, 2012

Neil Heller, an assistant chief of the Warren Fire Department, holds the bullet that he found on the street outside a house on Fourth Street Southwest on Tuesday morning. He found the bullet just after feeling a sharp stinging in his thigh. Heller was not injured.

Published on January 11, 2012

Attorneys Sarah Baker, left, and Tim Pettorini stand with Arthur Cook while answering questions Wednesday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. A judge there granted a temporary restraining order allowing Cook to play sports until at least Jan. 13, when a hearing for a preliminary injunction will take place. At rear is Cook’s father, Gene Cook Jr.

Published on December 29, 2011

Diana Marchese, Trumbull County recorder, stands with a 100-year-old index book for property deeds at the recorder’s office. The book is an example of the good condition they are in now, and Marchese hopes they will stay that way. But she expects the title searchers who use them to increase in number in the weeks to come, as about 80,000 Trumbull County acres are leased at once for shale drilling.

Published on December 16, 2011

Bill Nicholas, chief appraiser with the Trumbull County Auditor’s office, stands near a bank of computers at the auditor’s office that are used by the public to look up property values. Nicholas says the most recent property revaluation conducted in Trumbull County provides one of the most accurate measurements of property values the county has had in close to 20 years.

Published on November 29, 2011

Rose M. Wilson of Warren stands in court Tuesday with Atty. Michael Rossi as she pleads guilty to a felony charge of theft in office.

Published on November 16, 2011

Roderick Lewis Jr. of Warren stands on the edge of a run-down park on Burton Street Southeast where he and others have been working recently to clean up. Lewis, 21, has been donating hundreds of dollars each year to a school-supplies giveaway and been involved in other community projects.

Published on October 14, 2011

Mohammad Darwish, owner of the NorthEnd Market, shows the injury he suffered to his left arm and hand during a robbery at his store March 12. A robber fired a shot at Darwish that hit him in the hand and then entered his stomach. The man took money and fled on foot. The suspect, Jacquavis K. Williams, turned himself in to police Thursday.

Published on August 18, 2011

Fall webworms such as these in Bazetta Township come to Northeast Ohio every year but are more noticeable and plentiful than normal this year, according to an urban forester.

Published on August 18, 2011

Jason Crisp of Niles stands near the edge of the former 5th Street bridge over the CSX train tracks on the south side of Niles. The bridge, which carried cars over the tracks, was removed Saturday after it was damaged by a train that derailed.

Published on August 1, 2011

Duke Girardi of Boardman, far left, stands up as he finishes eating around a pound of rigatoni at the Greater Youngstown Italian Fest on Saturday afternoon. Girardi finished first in the pasta-eating contest, which he has entered in each of the last 11 years. The emcee, second from left, was Todd DeMain, and the other contestants are, seated from left, Michael DeLucia III of Green near Akron, MichaelDeLucia II of Green and Scott Cross of Columbiana.

Published on July 31, 2011

Duke Girardi of Boardman, far left, stands up as he finishes eating around a pound of rigatoni at the Greater Youngstown Italian Fest on Saturday afternoon. Girardi finished first in the pasta-eating contest, which he has entered in each of the last 11 years. The emcee, second from left, was Todd DeMain, and the other contestants are, seated from left, Michael DeLucia III of Green near Akron, MichaelDeLucia II of Green and Scott Cross of Columbiana.

Published on July 31, 2011

Lordstown Mayor Michael Chaffee stands in front of one of the village’s previously installed wind turbines. Through more than three months of operation, there are questions as to exactly how much money the turbines have saved the village.

Published on July 18, 2011

Marine Sgt. Frank Pezzano (in Indians cap) greets family and friends who threw him a surprise homecoming party Friday night at the Scrappers game. At right are his girlfriend, Stephanie Cole, and his father, Frank Pezzano. At left is the sergeant’s mother, Jen.

Published on July 8, 2011

Thomas Altiere Jr., 32, of Royal Troon Drive in Warren, right, stands in the courtroom of Judge Andrew Logan of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court with his attorney, Gary Rich. Altiere, son of Sheriff Thomas Altiere, pleaded guilty Tuesday to deception to obtain a dangerous drug for using deception to obtain prescriptions for Hydrocodone, a pain medication, from multiple doctors and multiple pharmacies earlier this year. The Trumbull County Adult Probation Department will determine whether Altiere qualifies for a program that would allow him to receive drug treatment in lieu of conviction on the charge.

Published on June 28, 2011

Frederick D. Johnson is led from the courtroom after Judge Peter Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court sentenced Johnson to 32 years in prison for being a “major drug offender.”

Published on June 1, 2011

Tom Angelo, Warren water-pollution control director, left, stands with Andrew Blocksom of Lisbon, owner of Patriot Water Treatment, inside Patriot’s water-treatment plant on Sferra Avenue Northwest in Warren Commerce Park. The company had a ribbon cutting and showed how the plant removes salt, metals and solids from water coming from Marcellus-Shale drilling operations.

Published on May 10, 2011

Garrick Krlich of Hubbard testifies in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court regarding the horn-honking that he recorded outside his home in 2010 by someone in a Chevy Cavalier. Magistrate Patrick McCarthy said he didn’t find enough evidence to find that Anthony Palestro of Hubbard was responsible for any of the honking, and a civil protection order was denied in the case on Wednesday. McCarthy did approve a protection order in another case that same day, however, against Nick Bruce.

Published on May 4, 2011

The former engineering building, above, at Delphi Packard Electric will be demolished along with a manufacturing building at the company’s North River Road facilities in Howland.

Published on March 3, 2011