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Ex-auto title clerk sentenced for theft in office

WARREN — A former Trumbull County employee has been sentenced to six months in jail for six felonies related to her stealing money and altering records to cover up the crime. Vanessa Clark, 59, of McDonald Avenue in Niles, a former employee of the auto title division of the Trumbull County Clerk of Courts Office, was sentenced Tuesday by Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Sarah Kovoor to 180 days in jail, with credit for 88 days already served while awaiting sentencing, court records show. She pleaded guilty May 5 to one count of theft in office and five counts of tampering ...

County approves spending $2M in senior funds

WARREN — Trumbull County Commissioners during their Wednesday meeting approved using $1,955,000 in Trumbull Senior Levy funding to provide services to the county’s senior residents. The county’s senior levy board provided recommendations to the commissioners on how the money should be allocated among organizations that submitted bids for service contracts. Direction Home of Eastern Ohio in Youngstown was awarded $135,000 per year to provide ombudsman services for seniors. Guardianship and Protective Services Inc. of Mineral Ridge received a $135,000 per year contract. Four ...

Warren residents request parking enforcement

WARREN — Members of the North End Neighborhood Watch Group want to see vehicles off the roads, especially at night, and their councilwoman is helping them to make it a reality as city officials are banning overnight parking. Councilwoman Tina Milner, D-2nd Ward, told about 20 residents at a neighborhood gathering Tuesday at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library said city officials have been addressing problems with people parking on roads. She said no one is permitted to park vehicles on truck routes within the city or during the overnight hours between 11 p.m. and 6 ...

Lindsey Graham eulogized as an ‘American original’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Lindsey Graham, the son of pool hall owners who rose to become one of his generation’s more influential U.S. politicians at home and abroad, was eulogized Tuesday as “a true American original” during memorial services in Washington. Graham’s flag-draped ...

Renovation gets a finishing touch

YOUNGSTOWN — During a quiet ceremony Tuesday afternoon, a mezuzah was placed at the entrance of the newly renovated Schwartz Judaic and Holocaust Resource Center inside the Jewish Community Center (JCC). A mezuzah is a handwritten scroll on parchment paper, called a Klaf, that contains ...

Niles board OKs superintendent’s retire-rehire

NILES — Ann Marie Thigpen’s administrative career has kept her in one place for the past decade, and she’ll be able to continue that thanks to a series of moves Tuesday night. The Niles City Schools Board of Education approved Thigpen’s retirement-resignation as the district’s superintendent, effective Saturday, then approved her employment to the same position in a five-year, 240-day contract, effective Aug. 4 through July 31, 2031, per the terms and conditions of the employment contract. Thigpen’s base salary will be maintained at its 2025-26 rate for the contract’s ...