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Liberty police find body at park

Staff report LIBERTY — The Liberty Township Police Department and the Trumbull County Coroner’s office are investigating the death of a male whose body was found in Churchill Park on Thursday. Police Chief Ray Buhala said Thursday the cause of the death is not known but is being investigated. He said there is no evidence of suspicious activity. He said video from surveillance cameras at the park will be reviewed. Police say the death is an isolated incident and there is no threat to the public. A press release from the police department states that the coroner’s office ...

Defense attorney adds to reasons he wants murder charge dismissed

YOUNGSTOWN — Defense attorney David Betras has augmented his earlier arguments in asking Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge John Durkin to dismiss the murder charges his client, David Tribble, 46, faces in the July 11, 2024, shooting death of Jermaine A. Tillis Sr., 51, on East Judson ...

Elections board finalizes issues for November ballot

Mahoning County voters will consider more than a dozen issues in the Nov. 3 general election. Wednesday was the filing deadline for the fall ballot, and a list provided by the Mahoning County Board of Elections shows four additional levies, 12 renewals and eight liquor permit requests. County-wide voters will decide on a 2.4-mill, five-year additional levy for the Board of Developmental Disabilities. That measure would collect $15,522,964 annually and cost $84 a year for the owner of a $100,000 home. MCBDD has not requested new money since 2000, but MCBDD Superintendent Bill ...

Library board OKs contract with firm for assistance with 5-year plan

YOUNGSTOWN — The Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County board of trustees has voted to accept a proposed contract with a firm to assist the library system with assembling and implementing its five-year, 2027-31 strategic plan. During its service and personnel committee meeting Tuesday afternoon at the Newport branch on the South Side, the board voted 6-0 to hire Fort Collins, Colorado-based ReThinking Libraries, in partnership with HBM Architects and Interior Designers of Cleveland, to work with the PLYMC on the plan to see what long-term improvements and changes the ...

Poland trustees OK budget for 2027 by 2-1 vote

POLAND TOWNSHIP — At a special meeting Tuesday, trustees voted 2-1 to approve a 2027 budget to submit to the county auditor. The vote came after a 90-minute discussion over how to solve a deficit problem in the police and zoning departments next year. “We need to cut $700,000 from the (2027) budget,” Township Fiscal Officer Paul J. Canter said. “The only way to do that is to make cuts.” He said it is too late to place a levy on the November ballot. He added that putting it on the May ballot could cost the township $23,000. Even if it were placed and passed next May, it ...

Trumbull: 2 cases of measles confirmed

The Trumbull County Combined Health District confirmed two cases of measles in the county with the two people unvaccinated and the cases unrelated. During the infectious period, one person was at the Walmart on Goldie Road in Liberty on July 29 and at Akron Children’s Mahoning Valley emergency department on Market Street in Boardman on Aug. 2. The health district stated it is working with Akron Children’s Mahoning Valley and the Ohio Department of Health to investigate and notify anyone who may have been exposed. Vaccination clinics will be 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. today at ...