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Man acquitted of felonious assault in 2021 now facing new charges

Staff report WARREN — A city man acquitted of attempted murder and felonious assault charges in June of 2021 was among 29 people indicted Thursday by a Trumbull County grand jury. Daron Warfield Jr., 37, Austin Avenue SW, Warren, is facing three counts of strangulation, and one count each of felony domestic violence and felony menacing by stalking, and misdemeanor criminal damaging/endangering and telecommunications harassment. Although a jury acquitted Warfield of the two charges in 2021, he was still sentenced to four years in prison for a probation violation stemming from a ...

On the record: Lakeview

Lakeview WHAT: Board of Education July meeting PRESENT: Angela Campana, Mark Harper, Jennifer Nicholas, Taylor Pease and Danielle Scherer Scott. The board: • Accepted the resignations of school secretary Rachael Derr, effective July 1, and bus driver Bob Czako, effective Aug. 1. • Hired Jeffrey Solarz and Joseph Gillespie as bus drivers. Solarz will be paid the starting rate of $19.42 per hour; Gillespie, who was hired at step 3 on the contract schedule, will be paid $21.45 per hour. • Approved an athletic training services agreement with Peak Performance for the 2026-27 ...

On the record

Bristol WHAT: Township trustee meetings July 7 and 21 PRESENT: Jeff Waldeck, Rhonda Snyder and Doug Seemann Trustees: • Approved work on the Sager Cemetery old stone chapel wall at $4,200 with a Department of Commerce grant of $3,000 to help cover costs. • Discussed plans for filling and burying a time capsule at the park at the Bristol Historical Society re-enactment weekend Oct. 17. Plans are to bury it for 50 years and open it during the country’s tricentennial. Seemann said Ventling Memorial suggested an urn vault as it would be water tight and a marker. • Approved ...

Meet Mo’ Musky on the Mahoning

WARREN — “Mo’ Musky” is swimming where a giant once slept. Warren artist Aaron Chine painted a 100-foot, brightly colored muskellunge fish (commonly called a musky) on a retaining wall near the Mahoning River that is visible to an estimated 9,000 motorists each day driving on the ...

State grants awarded to upgrade 2 intersections

The Ohio Department of Transportation awarded two grants to Trumbull County for a roundabout in Braceville and reduced collision U-turn lanes at a Southington intersection. The project in Braceville is getting a $5.61 million grant while the Southington one will receive $2.54 million. The Braceville project, to be done in 2032, would create a roundabout at the intersection of state Routes 5 and 534. Crash data from ODOT listed 28 crashes at the intersection between 2021 and 2025 with three people dying in accidents there. A motorcyclist was killed in an August 2025 crash and two ...

Officials celebrate start of work on Innovation Hub

YOUNGSTOWN — About a year from now, Barb Ewing hopes to have additive manufacturing companies move into the new Youngstown Innovation Hub for Aerospace & Defense, located downtown in the former Vindicator building. Thursday was the symbolic shovel-turning in front of the 130,000-square-foot structure that formerly housed The Vindicator newsroom and printing facilities. Remarks by Ewing and many local leaders took place from a tent in the parking lot. Among the things many local officials talked about was how hard they worked to raise the matching funds needed to turn the hub into a ...