A safety group representing state governors says the post-pandemic traffic accident rate is at epidemic proportions. Statistics in Ohio, however, show that 2021 accident rates are reaching the level of 2018 — the last complete year before COVID-19 set in. Jonathan Adkins, executive ...
YOUNGSTOWN — A fugitive who was wanted for charges out of Boardman and arrested after a tussle with a federal agent on the balcony of a Niles hotel on Monday, now faces federal charges. A federal criminal complaint was made against Montrell Holmes, of New Haven, Conn., who is charged with ...
WARREN — A Youngstown man will spend an indefinite amount of time in prison after being convicted in the April 15 shooting of a pizza delivery driver in Liberty. Jermaine D. Stroughter Jr., 22, of Dickson Street, pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated robbery, felonious assault and ...
WARREN — A Girard man on Wednesday received an indefinite prison sentence after being convicted of felony charges from a June 27 incident where a stolen vehicle tried to ram into a Niles police cruiser — nearly running over a police officer in the process. David Maurice Copes, 23, of East ...
A juvenile killer of a Niles police officer in 1982 was denied parole this month by the Ohio Adult Parole Authority. Members of the board held a late September hearing outside Fred E. Joseph Jr.’s cell at the southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. Joseph was 17 when he ...
Defense attorneys at the federal civil trial against drugstore chains involving opioid prescriptions are trying to limit the testimony of two officials on the front lines of the opioid war in Trumbull and Lake counties. Jurors in the downtown Cleveland courtroom of U.S. District Judge Daniel ...