YOUNGSTOWN — With hotly contested races for governor and U.S. senator in Ohio, President Donald Trump will return Oct. 12 to Youngstown’s Covelli Centre to rally support for Republican candidates. Trump, a Republican, is supposed to speak at 6 p.m. with the event starting at 4:30 p.m. ...
WARREN — William M. Murphy, 58, was sentenced to 5 1/2 to 7 1/2 years in prison Monday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court for walking away from a halfway house in February and failing to register a change of address as a convicted sex offender — for the third time. Judge Sarah Kovoor said the sentence was necessary to protect the community and Murphy’s history of sexual assault and not reporting to authorities. Murphy has had addresses in various Trumbull County communities since 2008. Trumbull County Assistant Prosecutor Gabe Wildman said Murphy’s current conviction for ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Pennsylvania has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, state health officials said Monday, making it the largest state outbreak in more than three decades. The U.S. is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991, with nearly 3,900 reported cases, according to the CDC. ...
The Associated Press Russian authorities have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee at a plague research institute in Siberia who contracted pneumonia of an “unknown” cause. Local state TV said the woman died last week. Russian authorities said they found no evidence that her illness was caused by any of the pathogens she worked with. But the case has raised alarm in Russia after unconfirmed media reports suggested she might have died of pneumonic plague — a less common but severe form of plague that can spread from person to person. The woman ...
HOWLAND — A reported altercation between a woman and a motorist following a Howland High School football game in September is still under investigation. According to a police report obtained Monday, an officer was dispatched to the high school for an assault and spoke with Alysia Lealand, who said she was blocking traffic for the Howland band when she asked a man in a blue Tesla to move his vehicle. Lealand said the man then exited his vehicle and raised his fist in the air like he was going to hit her, adding that he then chest-bumped her, leading her to grab his shirt to prevent ...
MARIETTA (AP) — Speaking to a small gathering of supporters as the Ohio River flowed behind her, Dr. Amy Acton announced she was backing a three-year moratorium on permitting new injection wells for fracking in rural Washington County. It’s an issue that is top of mind for voters ...
