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Parent expresses bus stop concerns

HOWLAND — A Howland parent is urging school officials to move a Venice Drive bus stop away from a four-way intersection over safety concerns, but district administrators say routing guidelines and on-site observations don’t support making a change. As Monday’s board meeting concluded, the Howland Board of Education heard from Stephanie Orr, who read a letter from a concerned parent regarding a bus stop on the corner of Anderson Avenue and Venice Drive. “I feel that it is a dangerous bus stop for the kids; it is a four-way stop, and hardly anybody stops. Most people just roll ...

YSU senior details atrocities of Islamic Republic at lecture

YOUNGSTOWN — Negin Mirzade bitterly recalled the day police arrested her at age 14 while she waited for her sister to pick her up from a class. Mirzade’s “offense?” Wearing a light-blue pair of shoes the police claimed would attract male attention to her. “The police called me ...

Charge in court fracas bound over to grand jury

WARREN — The felonious assault charge of Ryshionna Powell, 18, of Warren, was bound over to a Trumbull County grand jury Tuesday in a Sept. 21 incident in which Powell is accused of throwing a phone at another woman in the back of a courtroom in Warren Municipal Court, causing a laceration on the other woman’s forehead. Powell waived her preliminary hearing Tuesday, and Judge Natasha Natale bound Powell’s case over to the grand jury. Natale also advised Powell that she is not eligible to make bond until she has served 30 days in jail because Visiting Judge Terry Ivanchak ordered ...

Pepper targets Ramaswamy’s policies

YOUNGSTOWN — David Pepper, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, said the platform of Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican gubernatorial nominee, is a disaster for working class Ohioans and continues the GOP’s efforts to benefit the rich. During a Tuesday news conference in ...

Remembering 21st century fallen soldiers at Warren exhibit

WARREN -- The exhibit, Remembering Our Fallen, has made a stop on its national tour at the Kinsman House, also known as the Warren Heritage Center. The memorial includes 35 tribute towers with military and personal photos of 5,501 of our nation’s fallen from Sept. 11, 2001, to Aug. 30, ...

County commissioners to OK one last late change order

WARREN — A week after warning Trumbull County department heads they will no longer pass resolutions to pay for change orders when the work already has been done without their review, Commissioners Denny Malloy and Rick Hernandez are expected to approve today a $186,152.76 change order for the Meadowbrook Sanitary Improvement project. The change order increased the cost of the project to $13,226,152 from its original price tag of $13,040,000. Last week, after the commissioners unanimously agreed not to accept change orders after work had been completed, Trumbull County Sanitary ...