Breaking News

News

Homeless man sentenced to 2 years for child luring at Warren gas station

Latest News

Staff report WARREN — Homeless man Francisco J. Flores, 38, pleaded guilty to felony gross sexual imposition and abduction and misdemeanor criminal child enticement Thursday for two child luring cases involving teen girls at a Warren gas station May 24. Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Cynthia Wescott sentenced Flores to two years in prison. Flores is also now required to register as a sex offender once per year for 15 years. Flores also faces possible deportation. The case involved two separate child-luring cases at the Pit Stop gas station on Youngstown Road ...

New Trumbull Job and Family Services director to be named

Latest News

WARREN — The Trumbull County Commissioners are expected to name a new executive director for the Trumbull County Job and Family Services agency soon. Nine of the approximately dozen contenders who applied for the position have been interviewed, according to Commissioner Rick Hernandez. Three candidates received second interviews. A new director is expected to be announced within the next one to three weeks. The county is expected to make an offer for employment and then give the candidate time to inform his or her current employer. John Gargano, the former director, retired ...

Leavittsburg group celebrates 30th year

Local News

LEAVITTSBURG — In 1996, a group of Leavittsburg residents were concerned with the littering and debris at the intersection of West Market Street and South Leavitt Road and decided to do something about it. The residents gathered and formed a group they called the Downtown Leavittsburg Improvement Association, which today is known as the Leavittsburg Heritage Association. Shirley Combs said at the 1996 meeting she was elected president of the group, a title she continues to hold 30 years later. The group’s members gathered this week at the Leavittsburg Heritage Museum run on West ...

Air quality concerns in county administration building arise

Latest News

WARREN — A county employee told Trumbull County Commissioners that the air quality in the county’s administration building may be making employees sick. Beth Toth of the Trumbull County Auditor’s Office told the commissioners during Tuesday’s workshop there are some concerns about the air quality in the auditor’s office. She provided commissioners Tony Bernard, Rick Hernandez and Denny Malloy with results of air quality tests that she, on her own, conducted that indicated there had been formaldehyde readings in the air. “Everybody is constantly sick in our offices with ...

Charge in court fracas bound over to grand jury

Local News

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 ...

Gentle giant Backpack declared winner of Alaska’s Fat Bear Week

National News

After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. The nonprofit running the longstanding contest announced that the bear, known for his pacifist nature, was the winner Tuesday with more than 100,000 votes, giving him a close win over Bear 910 with just over 50% of the poll. The contest, which is in its 12th year, celebrates the resilience of the 2,200 brown bears that live in the preserve on the Alaska Peninsula, which extends from the state’s southwest corner toward the ...