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Trumbull County Reads unites libraries with tales of early aviation

Trumbull County Reads takes flight this month with two books about the Wright Brothers — and their sister — and for the first time every library in the county will be on board. “To Slip the Bonds of Earth,” a novel by Amanda Flower with Katharine Wright as its mystery solving sleuth, and “The Wright Brothers,” David McCullough’s best seller about Ohio aviation pioneer inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright, are this year’s selections. The Warren-Trumbull County Public Library and its branches in Howland, Cortland, Liberty, Brookfield and Eastwood Mall in Niles, as well ...

Moss House celebrates ancestry of local residents for America’s 250th

MINERAL RIDGE — A special display is inside the Moss Ancestral Home showcasing the ancestors of local residents who served in the Revolutionary War as part of America’s 250th celebration this year. Marci Buchanan, president of the Mineral Ridge Historical Society, said Mary Lou Godleski, ...

Anne Allen was first woman indicted for murder in Mahoning County

125 Years Ago, 1901, transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator: “Murder in first degree the indictment returned against Anne L. Allen. First time in history of Mahoning County that such a count has been returned against a woman.” “Murder in the first degree. For the first time in the history of Mahoning County a grand jury has returned such an indictment against a woman. “Such a bill was found in the case of Mrs. Anne L. Allen, who is charged with the killing of her husband, James Allen, on August 7 of the present year. The indictment reads ...

Speaker discusses Wright brothers at Warren library

WARREN — The first airplane was flown in Kittyhawk, North Carolina, but it was actually created in Dayton, Ohio, where the Wright Brothers gathered data and conducted experiments for their flying machine. The inventors of the original motorized airplane, Wilbur and Orville Wright, grew up and lived their adult lives in Dayton. During his Thursday talk, “The Bishop’s Kids: The Wright Family and the Birth of Flight” at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library, Tom Crouch, curator emeritus of the aeronautics division at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, discussed ...

Grand jury indicts Warren woman, but not in fatal shooting of man

WARREN — Brianna Nichols, 24, of Warren, the woman charged in April with felonious assault in the April 17 shooting of Jamar Hill, 44, at a home on Highland Avenue SW, was indicted Wednesday on other charges, but not felonious assault. She was indicted on two misdemeanor counts of violating a protection order on the day of the shooting, and she was indicted on single misdemeanor counts of menacing by stalking and aggravated menacing that allegedly happened March 11 involving a woman. The grand jury refused to indict Nichols on the felonious assault charge involving Hill on April ...

Grand jury refuses to indict northern Trumbull man on rape charge

WARREN — A Trumbull County grand jury on Wednesday refused to indict Andrew A. Miller, 41, of Park Avenue in Bloomfield Township, on a first-degree felony rape charge but did indict him on two low-level felonies of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. Miller was charged with the single count of rape Aug. 18, the same day he was arrested and taken to the Trumbull County jail. The alleged victim told Trumbull County Sheriff’s deputies Miller raped her multiple times over a few months when she was 14 or 15 years old in 2006. She said Miller was 21 years old. She said when her ...