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Lakeview hires new superintendent

CORTLAND — The Lakeview Local School District on Monday hired Ashley Handrych as its new superintendent beginning with the 2024-25 school year. She is replacing Velina Jo Taylor, who is retiring at the end of this school year. Handrych has 18 years in the education field, including as a special education teacher, elementary school counselor, director of food services and most recently as principal at Lakeview Middle School. A member of the Ohio Middle Level Association and the Ohio Association of Secondary School Administrators, Handrych is dedicated to the latest educational ...

DeSantis ends campaign for presidency; Trump, Haley remain

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended his Republican presidential campaign Sunday just before the New Hampshire primary and endorsed Donald Trump, ending a White House bid that failed to meet expectations that he would emerge as a serious challenger to the former president. “It’s clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance," he said in a video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary comes Tuesday. DeSantis derided former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, long his ...

Suspect arrested in slaying of Warren mom

WARREN -- The search for a suspect in the murder of a Warren mother of four children has ended. U.S. Marshals announced today that 19-year-old Noel Flores Jr. was apprehended in Florida. Flores was wanted by the Warren Police Department for the shooting death of 26-year-old Ashante Kirksey ...

Interim Austintown trustee to be appointed to replace Kent

AUSTINTOWN — Township trustees will meet at 11 a.m. Wednesday to appoint an interim trustee to replace Steve Kent. Kent was convicted Monday of tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony. Mahoning County Prosecutor Gina DeGenova said that after reviewing the Ohio Revised Code and conferring with the Ohio Attorney General's Office, her office has determined that Kent's conviction automatically renders him "incompetent to hold office." "Since a jury returned a verdict finding Steve Kent guilty of a felony, he was rendered incompetent to hold his position of Austintown Township ...

Tue. 10:24 a.m.: Youngstown man sentenced to life without parole for murder

WARREN­ — Ronieque Requel was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole this morning for his role in the Feb 5. home invasion and slaying of 28-year-old Adam Spaid at 2109 Milton St. SE. Requel of Youngstown was sentenced on his convictions of aggravated murder, robbery, weapons under disability; all with specifications for firearms and receiving stolen property. The sentenced was handed down by Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Andrew D. Logan.

Trump faces fourth indictment in Georgia over 2020 election

ATLANTA (AP) — Donald Trump and several allies were indicted in Georgia on Monday, accused of scheming to illegally overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. It’s the fourth criminal case to be brought against the former president and the second to allege that he tried to subvert the results of the vote. The Fulton County grand jury indictment of Trump follows a two-year investigation ignited by a January 2021 phone call in which the then-president suggested that Georgia’s Republican secretary of state could help him “find 11,780 votes” needed to reverse his narrow loss to ...