NILES — More than five years after the fact, Niles police detectives still are investigating the brutal murder of a woman who had been a public servant and a great cook. Arlene Frasca, 74, a longtime Trumbull County Clerk of Courts employee, was killed Oct. 6, 2016, when assailants entered ...
EAST LIVERPOOL — Because of a state law that went into effect in April 2021, a prison inmate who has been incarcerated for more than three decades for the 1987 murder of an East Liverpool man gets an early bid for freedom. Billy Wayne Smith, 52, who was a few weeks shy of his 18th ...
HUBBARD TOWNSHIP — A township police captain on Friday said he has sent officials of Norfolk Southern railroad, headquartered in Atlanta, a traffic citation. The citation is for the incident on Dec. 27 of a train blocking two Hubbard Township crossings for more than six hours, backing ...
YOUNGSTOWN — A New Haven, Conn., man who tried to elude authorities at a Niles motel last fall has pleaded guilty to a federal charge in the case. Montrell Holmes, 25, on Friday appeared before U.S. Judge Pamela A. Barker of Northern Ohio District Court. Holmes changed his plea to guilty ...
WARREN — A 29-year-old Youngstown man pleaded guilty to multiple charges and was sentenced to eight years in prison. The case is connected to assaults on and threats made to a 29-year-old Hubbard woman and her minor daughter. William Barry, of Weston Avenue, pleaded guilty Thursday in ...
YOUNGSTOWN — A masked inmate in orange coveralls appeared Monday on the television screen in the courtroom of Municipal Judge Renee DiSalvo to waive his right to preliminary hearing on a murder charge. DiSalvo said Marquez D. Thomas’ case will be presented to a Mahoning County grand ...