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County officials, fiber optic providers review safety concerns

WARREN — Trumbull County Commissioners moderated a discussion Tuesday that allowed elected officials from across the county to voice the complaints from residents about the installation of fiber optic lines in their communities. Residents for most of 2026 have been complaining that the fiber optic companies have been damaging existing lines that run through their properties and, when they are through with their installations, the companies are not restoring the yards to the conditions they were before the installers arrived. Commissioners told representatives of Lumos/T-Fiber, ...

Holocaust Resource Center rededicated after renovation

Staff report YOUNGSTOWN — Following extensive renovations, a rededication ceremony took place Tuesday morning for the Schwartz Holocaust and Antisemitism Resource Center at the Jewish Community Center. The center is a premier educational resource dedicated to Holocaust education, the ...

Trumbull 911 Center could switch to new call system

WARREN — The Trumbull County Commissioners are reviewing a proposal that would move the county’s 911 Center to a computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system that will allow it to better communicate with police departments throughout the county. Sundance Systems Inc. of Valley View, near Cleveland, has a CAD system being used by several Trumbull County communities. Liberty police Chief Ray Buhala, representing Trumbull County police chiefs, said there is a need to integrate the Trumbull County 911 CAD system with systems already being used by county law enforcement agencies and fire ...

Man riding e-bike killed after falling onto roadway

WARREN TOWNSHIP — William Blair, 49, of Leavittsburg was pronounced deceased at the scene of a 9:10 p.m. Tuesday accident on Tod Avenue (state Route 45) near Eighth Street involving Blair losing control of the e-bike he was riding and falling off the bike, the Ohio State Highway Patrol reported in a 3:54 a.m. news release from the Patrol's Southington post. A 2021 Ford F-150 operated by Benjamin Woodyard, 45, of Warren, was traveling north on Tod Avenue when it struck Blair, the release states. Woodyard applied the brakes heavily and was struck from behind by a 2015 Dodge Charger ...

Liquor option in Warren fails to make fall ballot

WARREN — The Trumbull County Board of Elections certified all issues and liquor options, except one, to the Nov. 3 ballot. The board met Tuesday to approve all of the issues and all but one liquor option. The board ruled that an option for the Sunday on-premise sale of wine, mixed beverages and spirituous liquor for Loom Lodge 0186 Trumbull in Warren Precinct 4F did not have enough valid signatures. It will not appear on the Nov. 3 ballot. A Monday-Saturday liquor option for the on-premise sale of beer, wine, mixed beverages and spirituous liquor by Eastside Girl in Niles ...

Contiguous US breaks its hottest month record

KENSINGTON, Maryland (AP) — The contiguous United States sizzled to its hottest month ever last month, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. July averaged 76.89 degrees Fahrenheit across the Lower 48 states, eclipsing the Dust Bowl’s July 1936 by an eighth of a degree. Records go back to 1895. “It’s not good when you’re breaking records from the Dust Bowl, which we are in this case,” said meteorologist Jeff Masters of Yale Climate Connections. “And that was a crazy sort of situation where you put tens of millions of people in motion. You had ...