LIBERTY — With the 2025 fiscal year wrapping up, trustees and residents heard updates regarding the township’s 2026 budget, which includes new money. As part of his report at Monday’s regular meeting, Fiscal Officer Matt Connelly reported that the TownePlace Suites by Marriott — which ...

Staff report POLAND TOWNSHIP — The township police department, with assistance from the Mahoning Valley Law Enforcement Task Force Drug Unit and the Violent Crimes Task Force, executed a court-authorized search warrant at 2896 Saginaw Drive just before 10:30 a.m. Monday. The warrant, ...

The Ohio Elections Commission determined a political action committee and a limited liability company — both run by Republican political consultant Regina McManus — violated state campaign finance laws and will refer the matter to the Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office to decide on any ...

GIRARD — John Freeman, who has been with the Girard Police Department for the past 16 years, has been named the city’s new police chief. Mayor Mark Zuppo made the announcement at Monday’s city council meeting. “Captain Freeman will now be called Chief Freeman,” Zuppo said, ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The body of a female was found early Monday alongside the road at Belleview and East Chalmers avenue on the South Side. Officers were sent there at 3:29 a.m. and found the body in a vacant lot on the southeast corner of the intersection. The person was on her back and deceased, ...

LIBERTY — Liberty police are on the lookout for a stolen weapon. According to a Thursday police report, officers were dispatched to Sampson Road in reference to a theft from a vehicle, and while en route, were informed that a firearm was stolen from it. Upon arrival, officers spoke with ...