Breaking News

News

Another resident alleges theft by contractor

Local News

BOARDMAN — A local contractor is in hot water for a familiar offense. A Boardman woman told police she paid a contractor $5,000 toward a $20,000 home-improvement project more than a year ago, but the work remains unfinished and the contractor has stopped responding to her. The complaint comes as police in several Mahoning Valley communities are investigating separate allegations involving Boardman contractor John P. Bartos III, who was arrested Friday on four outstanding warrants. Bartos has not been identified as the contractor in Tuesday’s Boardman complaint and the names of ...

Planning panel hosts forum for Trumbull’s southeast quadrant

Local News

LIBERTY — The county’s comprehensive plan for land use has not received an update in nearly 70 years, but it’s set to be revamped soon, after things were set in motion for a set of Trumbull County communities. Officials from Liberty, Brookfield, Vienna and Hubbard townships and the ...

Thousands in equipment stolen from Liberty business

Local News

Staff report LIBERTY — A woman reported seeing two teenagers in front of a local business the night a local sporting equipment store was broken into, resulting in thousands of dollars in sporting goods merchandise being stolen. According to a police report, officers were called to Wharmby Sporting Goods on Belmont Avenue Monday morning for a breaking and entering report. Officers spoke with the store’s owner, who said he had arrived to work and saw the building’s glass door was broken out, adding that he found a rock by the front door and a piece of brown landscaping stone ...

Community news

Community News

HELPING HANDS: Helping Hands Closet at Western Reserve United Methodist Church, 4580 Canfield Road, has new and gently used clothing for the entire family from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Tuesday. September specials include all tickets for $1 each, except green tickets, which are the fall items. FARMERS MARKET: The Struthers farmers market will take place 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at 130 S. Bridge St., Struthers, which is directly behind Selah Restaurant. Visitors can expect to find fruits and vegetables, fresh baked goods, specialty foods, meats, poultry, eggs, maple syrup, honey, plants, ...

Sheriff’s office gets $130K in state, federal traffic grants

Latest News

YOUNGSTOWN — More than $130,000 in state and federal traffic safety grants will support Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office deputies on additional enforcement details over the next year. A news release from the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office states that the Ohio Department of Public Safety awarded the office $46,200 through the Safe Communities program and $86,459 in federal traffic safety grants, for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. The funding also will allow sheriff’s deputies to supplement enforcement in communities where local police departments lack the staffing to ...

Woman charged with felonious assault, held in contempt for Warren courtroom fight

Local News

WARREN — Ryshionna Powell, 18, of Warren, is in the Trumbull County jail, charged with felonious assault, after an incident Monday afternoon in Warren Municipal Court in which she got into a fight with a Lowellville woman in the courtroom and threw a phone at the Lowellville woman’s head, causing a laceration. On Tuesday, Powell was arraigned in the same courtroom where the fight took place by Visiting Judge Terry Ivanchak. Powell pleaded not guilty and her bond was set at $15,000. Ivanchak also was presiding over the court at the time of the fight. Powell is not allowed to post ...