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County to review budget through year’s end

WARREN — Trumbull County Commissioners are expected to review the general fund budgets of all the county departments next week to determine what will be needed for the departments to complete the year based on 2026 budgets assigned to them at the end of 2025. The commissioners at their weekly workshop Tuesday received an overview of 2026 budget requests from 30 county departments that added up to $82,084,057.38. When making this year’s budget, the commissioners had a projected general fund budget of $67,038,260 to provide the departments. Sixteen departments made just over ...

Trumbull’s investment earnings nearly $750K more than ’25

WARREN — Trumbull County has earned nearly $750,000 more in interest so far this year than during the same period in 2025, Treasurer Agostino Ragozzino told the Trumbull County Commissioners during their quarterly investment advisory committee meeting Tuesday. Jim McCourt, a certified financial accountant with Meeder Public Funds, told commissioners that the current rise in interest earnings are due, in part, to investment decisions being made for the county and the expectation that interest rates will continue to rise because of the war in Iran and rising inflation rates. Meeder ...

Iran war talks see progress

CAIRO (AP) — Mediators have achieved progress in getting the United States and Iran back to negotiations, regional officials said Monday, after both sides paused attacks following a period of rapidly escalating tensions. But scattered attacks by armed groups across the region underscored the lingering tensions. Saudi Arabia said it had shot down drones fired by Iran-backed militias in Iraq that had targeted its petroleum facilities. Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen meanwhile claimed to have attacked Saudi oil facilities as part of a separate but related conflict. It was unclear if ...

Mecca community comes together for celebration

MECCA — Township residents and visitors were able to spend time together over the weekend at an annual summer community event that celebrates the township and what it has to offer. The sixth annual Mecca Community Day was coordinated by Christen Clemson, a township trustee, and resident ...

Watkins seeks harsher penalties for repeat nonviolent offenders

Staff report WARREN — A Trumbull County man, who has been arrested 69 times and imprisoned four times, is headed back to prison for another stretch behind bars for only two years following his July 14 sentencing. The sentence was the maximum allowed by Ohio law because Ohio has eliminated habitual criminal statutes and many repeat-offender escalation of penalties provisions. Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins has assigned Trumbull County First Assistant Prosecutor Christopher Becker and Chief of the Criminal Division Mike Burnett to propose legislation that would bring ...