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.
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State University’s board of trustees has approved a pair of new three-year contracts for two of the university’s unions. During a special meeting Friday morning in Tod Hall, the board unanimously approved the contracts for YSU’s Ohio Education Association and its Association of Classified Employees unions. The OEA represents the university’s faculty members; the ACE union represents various administrative, maintenance and support staff. The OEA ratified their contract July 17 and ACE just ratified their contract Thursday. The OEA agreement ...
VIENNA — Danny Mizicko said when a skateboarder, BMX rider or anyone in action sports nails a difficult trick, they often shout something like, “Yo, that’s it.” That exclamation takes on an added meaning in the videos Mizicko creates with his brother, Ken, for Stuck in Ohio. ...
