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Niles man could get 12 years in prison for kidnapping child

Ross A. Francis of Niles pleaded guilty Monday to kidnapping and grand theft of a motor vehicle for leaving a Niles home in a car containing a 3-year-old boy.

Appeals court rules in favor of Children Services Board regarding sign-in requirement

The 11th District Court of Appeals has affirmed a Trumbull County Common Pleas Court decision endorsing the Trumbull County Children Services Board’s requirement that citizens attending board meetings must sign their names.

First of 6 teens killed in Trumbull County crash buried

Family and friends carry the coffin of 15-year-old Kirklan Behner as they leave NorthMar Church Friday morning.

Area business people sound off to Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel about government

Republican Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel met with about 10 local business officials at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Chamber offices to get a better understanding of issues they care about.

Survivor of Warren multiple-fatal says driver was speeding

One of the survivors said it felt like the 19-year-old driver was going 80 mph just before the accident.

Auction has bidders hoping for an RG steal

Greg Miller of New Hampton, Iowa, looks over some rollers at the former RG Steel mil. The new owners of the Warren facility contracted with a Canadian auction house to sell off a sizable portion of its non-operational and outdated equipment. starting Tuesday and continuing thru Friday

Candidates for Warren police chief accept test results

None of the four candidates for Warren police chief have challenged any of the questions or answers on the civil service test they took Feb. 27.

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PROBE CONTINUES INTO CRASH

probe continues into crash that killed 6 teens

Investigators continue to question where five boys ages 14 and 15 were before a 7 a.m. Sunday traffic accident that killed them. The father of one of the boys says he thinks he knows.

Trumbull children services director: Employees have 'fire in their belly' to help kids

Schaffner points out some misconceptions

A week after damaging details of a police investigation at the agency were released, Trumbull County Children Services leader says employees “work every day with fire in their belly” to help kids.

Warren’s strengths, challenges discussed at 1st neighorhood meeting

Warren’s diversity was a primary topic at the first of a series of public meetings regarding the future of the city’s neighborhoods.

Merkel scores highest on test to be Warren police chief

Warren Police Department

In June, Lt. Eric Merkel is likely to become chief of the Warren Police Department

Warren officials ‘caught unaware’ by swinger’s club

City officials say they were caught unaware that a swinger’s club opened Saturday night.

Trumbull commissioners say 2013 might be start of county’s shale windfall

The oil and gas in the Utica Shale hasn’t brought an economic windfall to Trumbull County government yet.

Conservancy efforts aim to preserve grandeur of northern Trumbull Co.

Two Cleveland-area groups apply to conserve three more Trumbull County properties

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Ed Kawecki’s concern for grandsons, wallet nearly cost his life

The Leavittsburg man is grateful for firefighters and EMTs’ life-saving measures.

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Operations of tower at Youngstown-Warren Regional in jeopardy

Automatic cuts could impact regional airport

Process to reduce hours or close local air traffic tower could begin today

Director: Supervision for raped child proper

The rape of an infant by her biological parents during what was supposed to be a supervised visit at Trumbull Children Services triggered several investigations. Only one agency employee has been disciplined, and an attorney in the case is now calling for workers and supervisors involved in the matter to be fired.

Trumbull officials, residents map out drug-prevention strategies

Trumbull County has the 9th-highest number of opiate-related deaths in Ohio per capita.

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Turner gets 19 years for killing Liberty woman, teen daughter

Melvin Turner sentenced to 19 years in prison in double homicide

Officer: Most charges against septic installer should be dismissed

Hearing officer recommends no charges against septic installer

Dr. George Garrison, professor of Pan African Studies at Kent State University, told an audience Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a reformer in 1963.

Prof says King’s focus was evolving after ‘I Have a Dream’ speech By ED RUNYAN runyan@vindy.com

Betz to stay in prison 3 more years; Badilo, McClure decision later

The Ohio Parole Board will not release Trumbull County killer Gary A. Betz for at least three more

Cowboy hats, boots greet Rascal Flatts at Covelli

Rascal Flatts lead singer Gary LeVox center, and guitarists Joe Don Rooney, left, and Jay DeMarcus bring down the house Friday night at the Covelli Centre, downtown Youngstown, for fans who traveled from as far as Columbus and Pennsylvania to see the most awarded country group of the last decade.

Warren woman sentenced to 15 years to life for killing daughter

Joy Hodge has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for killing her 15-month-old daughter

Port takes another step toward rail line and facility at airport

The Western Reserve Port Authority has taken a second step toward extending a railroad line two

Shooting in shadow of YSU

Gunfire strikes student near dormitory; police arrest 2 suspects from Pittsburgh

Brittany N. Johnson, 23, of Bedford Heights, a nursing student at Youngstown State University, remained in stable condition Sunday evening in St. Elizabeth Health Center, where a girlfriend drove her after she was shot on Pennsylvania Avenue at 2:48 a.m. Sunday.

Valley police, judges note value of special courts for mentally ill

About 20 defendants are part of a special-docket program through Mahoning County Common Pleas Court that provides mental-health services and monitoring. Trumbull County does not have one.

Trumbull foreclosures up 26% despite sales boom

Despite a positive real estate market, Trumbull foreclosures rise again

Ryan, Johnson introduce bills to bring Hoerig back from Brazil

Area congressmen team up on return of Claudia Hoerig

Windsor House residents show that love is for all seasons

Windsor House of Champion nursing home

Nursing home residents show that love is for all seasons

Rep. Tim Ryan: Meeting with gun owners productive

Ryan meets with pro-gun representatives, plans to propose legislation

Warren mayor gives black-history speech to Jefferson students

Mayor Doug Franklin told the children at the Jefferson K-8 school Tuesday for Black History Month that his proudest professional moment was being elected Warren’s first black mayor.

Newton Falls officials terminate Police Chief John Kuivila

Newton Falls fires police chief

5 hurt in hit-and-run

Witness thinks act was ‘on purpose’

Five people were injured when a white Pontiac Sunfire with its headlights off drove into people

Jury finds inmate guilty of assault

Prison inmate convicted of felonious assault A jury late Friday found an inmate at the Ohio

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Unearthing TCTC history

Students, staff dig up time capsule with artifacts of 35-year-old school

35 years of history goes on display at Trumbull Career and Technical Center. Thursday was a day for remembering two years in the history of the Trumbull Career and Technical Center: 1978, when the school first opened; and 1988, the year students buried a time capsule containing letters and other artifacts.

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Mother: My son was abused by Brother Baker

A Poland woman whose son attended Warren John F. Kennedy High School from 1990 to 1994, and killed himself in 2003 in Arizona, believes his death at 26 might have been the result of sexual abuse by Brother Stephen Baker.

trumbull county Elections board agrees to combine voting precincts

Trumbull voting precincts to drop by 58 in two years After 90 minutes of discussion, members of

Weathersfield officials support proposed landfill

Companies propose recycling landfill for Weathersfield Township Weathersfield Township trustees

State may intervene in debate over reducing voting precincts

Trumbull elections board to meet Monday on precinct reductions Ohio’s Republican Secretary of

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Group: Brother Baker also served in Mich.

Detroit latest scene of protest over friar accused of abuse

A support group for victims of clergy sex abuse called attention in Detroit on Wednesday to what it says is another place where Brother Stephen Baker worked as a Franciscan friar.

Prosecutor urges board to keep Delgros in prison

trumbull county

Trumbull prosecutor urges parole board to keep Judith Delgros in prison Judith Delgros, 62,

Trumbull Co. tests drill sites vertically first

Officials to approve 4th road-use pact with a horizontal driller

The first wells are deep vertical wells being drilled for test purposes only

‘I’m sorry for what I did to the church’

Friar accused of abuse at JFK leaves suicide note, letters to others

Brother Stephen Baker, the Franciscan friar accused of committing sexual offenses against students

Franciscan accused of sex crimes at JFK commits suicide

Just days after allegations of child sexual abuse against Brother Stephen Baker became public, the Franciscan Friar, above left, was found dead Saturday of a self-inflicted knife wound. Among many accusers who have come forward is Mike Munno of Cortland, second from left, and among those offering support to the alleged victims have been, Bishop George V. Murry of the Youngstown Diocese, center; Robert M. Hoatson, co-founder and president of the Livingston, N.J.-based Road to Recovery Inc. support group, and Judy Jones, right, of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.

WR Port Authority sues to get clear title to mineral rights

15 gas and oil companies named as defendants

The Western Reserve Port Authority has filed a complaint in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court in an attempt to clear up mineral rights issues regarding hundreds of acres at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, leased to natural gas companies decades ago.

Woman who stabbed grandmother in Newton Falls will remain free

Woman who stabbed grandmother will remain free under conditions Former Leavittsburg woman

GE announces intent to close Ohio Lamp Plant

Union will offer cost-cutting ideas to avert GE plant closing A union leader representing 179

Clerk alleges inappropriate remarks from Newton Falls chief

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The village has opened an investigation into allegations against Chief John Kuivila from two female employees in his department.

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