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Niles man sentenced for rapes

WARREN — A Niles man on Thursday received a 15-year to life sentence on multiple felonies dealing with the sexual assaults of three underage female relatives. Kenneth Brainard, 29, of South Cleveland Avenue, pleaded guilty before Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Ronald J. Rice, on three ...

Watkins: Hubbard killer doesn’t deserve parole

A man convicted of killing his girlfriend in Hubbard in fall 1993 is up for parole next month, and for the third time since 2007, the Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office is lobbying against his release from prison. Alfonsia “Mickey” Perry, 65, was convicted of brutally beating Jeanette ...

Suspect arrested in teen’s killing outside South Side party

YOUNGSTOWN — Detectives have made an arrest in the April 15 shooting death of a Valley Christian School student who was attending a party at Martha’s Boulevard Bar and Grille on Southern Boulevard. According to a news release Saturday from Capt. Jason Simon, arrest warrants were ...

Federal judge denies Frenchko motion

A federal judge denied Trumbull County Commissioner Niki Frenchko’s request for a temporary restraining order against other county officials. She and her lawyers had asked the court to restrain the officials from continuing to destroy records and seize her property unlawfully, to interfere ...

Trumbull prosecutor adds to staff to assault violent crime

WARREN — The Trumbull County Prosecutor’s office has more ammunition to go after violent crime thanks to a state grant of almost half of a million dollars. Gov. Mike DeWine has awarded the prosecutor’s office some $495,151 from the state’s violent crime reduction program through the ...

Frenchko declares intent to sue Trumbull officials

WARREN — Commissioner Niki Frenchko said Friday she intends to file a federal lawsuit Monday “to protect herself and the Constitution” from Trumbull County officials — who, she claims, abuse “police power to punish political rivals.” In an advance copy of the suit provided by ...