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Trumbull grand jury indicts 35

WARREN — A Trumbull County grand jury recently returned 35 indictments. The following cases will have arraignments scheduled with the case-assigned judge during their weekly criminal day within the next week: • Eugene E. Lockney III, 48, Vine Avenue NE, Warren, aggravated possession of drugs tampering with evidence and possessing drug abuse instruments. • Tyreese Lawrence, 25, Parkman Road SW, Warren, tampering with evidence and failure to stop after an accident. • Nicholas A. Thom, 47, State Street NE, Warren, aggravated possession of drugs, possession of a ...

Former police chief being paid $56,060 for unused PTO

WARREN — Former Warren police Chief Eric Merkel’s personnel file may not benefit him and the city as they defend themselves against three pending federal lawsuits seeking damages for the sex offenses former Warren police officer Michael Edwards Jr. committed against several women. The ...

Town hall focuses on rising costs

LORDSTOWN — Everything was working like a well-oiled machine when Samm Lewis moved into her unit designed for those of middle income, but after the COVID-19 crisis, not so much. “Services have disappeared, and the carpets are threadbare,” Lewis, 74, of Warren, said about conditions at ...

Nature center complex opens

BAZETTA — Cortland resident Stacey Stewart said she and her family come to Mosquito Lake State Park at least once a month to enjoy an activity or event and now will have the newly opened nature center as an additional place for her family to enjoy. Stewart and her son, Jonah Swiger, ...

U.S. Sen. Jon Husted has given $34,300 in contributions from Les Wexner, who had longtime ties to notorious child sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein, to an anti-human trafficking charity, but he won’t give the other $45,600 he’s received from Wexner despite having more than $6.1 million in his state campaign fund. Amy Natoce, Husted’s campaign spokeswoman, said the campaign donated “all available funds” to the charity, Freedom a la Cart. That didn’t include the other $45,600 Husted, a Republican, received from Wexner. Wexner, a New Albany billionaire, is listed as an Epstein ...

Spill closes Liberty road for 8 hours

LIBERTY — Tibbetts Wick Road has reopened since Thursday afternoon’s spill, but the township’s fire chief says more work will happen before the road is completely cleared of its residue. Fire Chief Doug Theobald said Friday that the spill was caused by a truck that was traveling east when a car pulled out in front of him and caused the driver to slam on his brakes and swerve left. “(He) missed the car, but the material on the truck shifted forward and then overflowed from the trailer onto the road,” Theobald said. “The material was very, for lack of a better description, ...