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Worship Without Walls event set in Austintown

AUSTINTOWN — Worship Without Walls will provide a workshop and music 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Austintown Township Park. The free, non-denominational community worship event is designed to bring people together through faith, family, fellowship and music. Whether you attend church regularly, are searching for a church home, or simply want to spend an uplifting afternoon outdoors, all are welcome. Jenah Shank, one of the event organizers, said outdoor summer worship gatherings have become increasingly popular throughout the region at venues such as Day Dream Farm Winery, Greene Eagle ...

Brookfield FD investigates weekend mobile home fire

BROOKFIELD — The Brookfield Fire Department is investigating a weekend fire that caused damage to a mobile home. Fire crews were called out early Sunday afternoon to the mobile home in the 1200 block of Greenwich Court. The residents and a family pet were able to get out safely, according to a fire report. Crews were able to get the fire under control and believe it may have started in the bathroom of the mobile home, the report states

UPDATE: Task Force captures woman in aggravated burglary

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.

Family honors a veteran of the Revolutionary War

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 ...

First parole hearing for child rapist is this month

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. ...

Defense attorney wants Warren judge disqualified in case

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 ...