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Judge to make ruling on Hill claim without oral arguments

WARREN — A visiting judge will not hear oral arguments determining the merits of defense claims that Danny Lee Hill is mentally and intellectually disabled and thus constitutionally prohibited from facing the death penalty. Instead, Judge Patricia A. Cosgrove, a retired Summit County ...

Man, 35, pleads in federal gun case

WARREN — A North Feederle Drive SE man has agreed to a plea deal with federal prosecutors and this week pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing a firearm while being convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence offense. The charges stem from a June 15, arrest of Whittington R. Davis by ...

Man pleads guilty to manslaughter

WARREN — The Austintown man accused of stabbing a man to death in Girard on July 30 agreed to a plea deal on Tuesday with prosecutors in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. Cole P. Conti, 21, of Cannon Road, appeared with his attorney, Ron Yarwood, to plead guilty to a first-degree felony ...

Girard man pleads to multiple OVIs

WARREN — A Girard man received a 21-month prison sentence Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to two counts of operating a vehicle under the influence, which was connected to an October 2021 traffic crash in Bristol Township. Tyler Zuniga, 33, of Washington Avenue, was found to be a repeat OVI ...

Civil rights case against officer under appeal

A former Niles police officer, who was found by a federal judge to have used excessive force and reckless conduct in the 2019 shooting death of a Niles man, has appealed the civil rights case to the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Attorneys for Christopher Mannella, who retired from the ...

19-year-old sentenced in rape case

WARREN — After the defendant’s grandmother asked the judge for leniency, a Howland man on Wednesday was sentenced to a prison term of six to nine years on a conviction of two first-degree rape charges. The man was accused in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court of raping an adult woman at ...