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No major injuries reported from Valley tornado, storms

With reports of many trees down and roof damage to some homes in Liberty and Hubbard townships, officials from the National Weather Service in Cleveland are to be in parts of the Mahoning Valley today to determine the severity of a tornado that passed through the area. Trumbull County Emergency Management Director John Hickey said he received calls of many trees down and one house having roof damage in Hubbard Township. Residents reported a funnel cloud in the area of Applegate Drive on the Liberty-Hubbard line. Hickey said the NWS will survey that area and others to determine the ...

NTSB releases report on fatal plane crash

A person on the ground saw the moments leading up to the single-engine, four-seat Piper Comanche aircraft that crashed east of Middlefield on June 30, killing the pilot and its two passengers. The person reported that she saw the plane cross above the tree line into her property. Then the right wing dipped, while descending slightly. Then she saw the plane briefly return to level. But it then “made a sharp right turn, followed by a steep, nose down descent into a field.” The plane crashed at 3:35 p.m. into a cow pasture 1 mile east of its destination, the Geauga County Airport. ...

Body of missing man found near reservoir

Staff report BERLIN CENTER — Searchers found the body of missing North Olmsted man Sean Miller near the boat docks off Bedell Road at Berlin Reservoir sometime after 7 a.m. Tuesday. The Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office issued a notice Monday that the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office and Ohio Department of Natural Resources were looking for Miller, who had been missing since about 2 a.m. Monday from the campgrounds at the reservoir. An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday, the sheriff’s office advised. Mahoning County deputies, Ohio Department of Natural Resources personnel ...

Five more submit letters for Austintown trustee seat

AUSTINTOWN — Several more township residents have expressed interest in the vacant seat on the Austintown Board of Trustees. Last week, the township released the names of those who submitted letters of interest to be appointed as interim trustee in the wake of Robert Santos’ resignation from the board earlier this month. At the beginning of the July 6 regular trustees meeting, Santos announced he was stepping down immediately after having accepted a position with Mahoning County as Project Manager-Capital Programs. Per Ohio law, trustees Monica Deavers and Bruce Shepas must ...

Grants support energy study

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Resilient Energy Technology and Infrastructure Consortium — led by West Virginia University in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and more than 60 regional partners — will receive up to $160 million over the next decade from the National Science Foundation to develop innovative technologies to address the nation’s energy needs. RETI was selected as one of 12 U.S. National Science Foundation Regional Innovation Engines award recipients, the NSF announced recently. The funding is projected to generate 21,000 jobs, ...

YPD report details fatal May 18 crash on Route 711 entrance ramp

YOUNGSTOWN — A Youngstown police crash report reveals that a 66-year-old Boardman man died in an early-morning motorcycle crash on the northbound entrance ramp to state Route 711 on May 18. The report states that Mark D. Backhaus, 66, of Hitchcock Road in Boardman, was driving his 2011 Harley Davidson FLH onto the ramp from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard at 3:31 a.m. when the motorcycle went off the road on the left shoulder at the curve and lost control before re-entering the on-ramp and landing on the road. Backhaus was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital and was listed ...