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Man arrested at Trump’s California golf course faces illegal weapons charges

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man who was arrested at President Donald Trump’s Los Angeles-area golf course was pretending to be part of the security detail preparing for Trump’s visit and had a stash of illegal weapons in his car and home, authorities said. Jeanine John Taele, 38, was due in court Wednesday on a federal weapons charge but the hearing was canceled. He is being held at a downtown LA jail on state charges, according to booking records and not yet in federal custody, said a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office. Taele was arrested Sunday at Trump ...

Commissioners continue budget review

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WARREN — Trumbull County Commissioners are weighing budget concerns of the heads of general fund departments to ensure they will be able to complete 2026 without going into deficit. The commissioners last month received the amounts each of the departments estimate they will need to finish the year. Several departments noted they will require more money than was allocated to them at the beginning of the year. Thirteen of the 16 departments are projected to need an additional combined $3,732,163 to complete the year. The commissioners over the past week have been reviewing the ...

County considers combining eastern, central courts

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WARREN — Trumbull County Commissioners are considering passing a resolution to ask the Ohio Supreme Court to do a study to determine if the county’s central and eastern district courts should be consolidated into one court. Bazetta Trustee Michael Hovis, who is running for Commissioner Denny Malloy’s seat in November, during Wednesday’s commissioner meeting sought to convince commissioners to pass a resolution asking the high court to conduct a study to determine if the two courts should be consolidated because of the declining number of cases going to each. Previous efforts ...

LaBrae officials will dedicate new band shell

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LEAVITTSBURG — LaBrae Local School District officials will host a special ribbon-cutting ceremony at 6:45 p.m. Monday for the new band shell. The ribbon cutting will begin at Viking Stadium on the school campus, immediately preceding the annual LaBrae Band Night, which is Trumbull County’s inaugural show for this year’s band night series. School officials said the ceremony marks the official opening of the new performance space, which will serve as a premier venue for LaBrae High School’s marching band. District officials, school board members, and marching band members ...

Neil Armstrong’s childhood home hits the market

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WAPAKONETA, Ohio (AP) — Inside Neil Armstrong’s boyhood home, at the top of a creaky stairway, sits his bedroom where he launched model airplanes out of the rear window to measure how far they’d fly. Hanging in the room now are autographed photos of astronauts who’ve visited the privately kept house to see where Armstrong’s first steps to the moon began. Owned by a retired history teacher devoted to preserving its past and charming character, the home is for sale for the first time in nearly 40 years. What will become of it remains uncertain. All over Armstrong’s ...

US moves to shut a Kentucky organ donation group

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The Trump administration said Wednesday it will shut down a Kentucky organ donation group accused of continuing plans for organ retrieval from some patients who unexpectedly showed signs of life. While those surgeries were canceled, the cases made headlines several years ago, prompting a spike in people around the country revoking their organ donor registrations. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the nonprofit Network for Hope “a bad apple” and accused it of “persistent safety failures” in announcing the government was starting the process to decertify ...