YOUNGSTOWN -- The Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force has captured fugitive Jessica Dothard. She was wanted by the Youngstown Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Service on an aggravated burglary charge. Dothard, 32, has been known to frequent the Youngstown, Akron and Cleveland areas.
GREENE — The Woofter family of Vernon and Fowler wanted to honor their great-great-great-great grandfather who served in the Revolutionary War so they gathered this week to lay a special marker at Pioneer Cemetery. The historic cemetery north of the intersection of state Routes 46 and 87 ...
WARREN — A woman serving a 15-years-to-life prison sentence for the rape of an 8-month-old girl that was captured on her own cellphone is eligible for parole for the first time this month and Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins penned an 11-page letter earlier this week asking the parole board to deny it. The letter was cowritten by Trumbull County Assistant Prosecutor Gabriel Wildman, who focuses on the prosecution of child sex and child pornography crimes as part of the Child Assault Division of the prosecutor’s office. Felicia Banks Beemer, now 36, was sentenced Nov. ...
WARREN — An attorney with the Ohio Public Defender’s Office has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to disqualify Warren Municipal Court Judge Natasha Natale from presiding over the case of a man charged with two misdemeanor charges in a 2025 assault at Warren G. Harding High School. The affidavit seeks disqualification of Natale from the case “because her words and conduct in the … case demonstrate a fixed, anticipatory judgment concerning (the defendant’s) conduct and guilt and, independently, create an objectively reasonable appearance that she cannot remain a neutral arbiter in ...
With the federal murder trial of Kaprise and Thomas Sledge now 10 days away in the March 2, 2024, shooting death of U.S. Postal Service carrier Jonte Davis, 33, in Warren, U.S. District Court Judge Donald C. Nugent has denied several defense motions. The rulings were filed Wednesday after a motion hearing took place in federal court in Cleveland. Also at the hearing, both defendants were arraigned on a superseding indictment that modified the weapons charge both men face. Both men entered not guilty pleas. Their trial is set for Aug. 17. The weapons charge — now called using, ...
With data centers popping up in Ohio and creating controversy, Republican Vivek Ramaswamy and Democrat Amy Acton, who are running for governor, are taking positions on them. Ramaswamy said Thursday that he has three nonnegotiable requirements for data centers — they must ensure that Ohio families who live near them receive free electricity by providing power or compensation that directly lowers residential electric bills, they must pay their full property taxes, and they must comply with strict air and water quality standards while prioritizing brownfield and industrial ...
