Breaking News

Controlled burn keeps firefighters prepared

WEATHERSFIELD — Since last spring, firefighters from Mahoning and Trumbull counties have been taking part in fire training at a home in Weathersfield that was burned to the ground over the weekend. McDonald fire Chief Fred Marcum said Sunday what made the training unique was it was a ...

Agenda

• GIRARD BOARD OF CONTROL will meet at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the city hall meeting room. • BROOKFIELD TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES will meet at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the township administration building for the monthly department head meeting for discussion on hiring Martuccio Paving to do work on Amy Boyle Road. • BROOKFIELD TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL COMMISSION will meet at 5 p.m. Tuesday for the quarterly meeting at Belly Buster Sub Shop. • TRUMBULL COUNTY COMMISSIONERS will meet at 10:30 a.m, Wednesday in the commissioners hearing room for the regular meeting. • MAHONING VALLEY SANITARY ...

Liberty woman loses $1,625 in ATM thefts

Staff report LIBERTY — A woman said bank representatives told her that she would not be reimbursed any money after she reported a theft to police Saturday. According to a police report, Liberty police were called to a Fifth Avenue residence, where they met a woman who said an unknown person had taken money from her bank account. The woman provided officers with an investigation report from Huntington Bank, which showed six transactions from Sept. 2 to Sept. 8 totaling $1,625. The officer noted the transactions happened at three separate ATM locations. The woman said she was ...

Man charged with several offenses in apparent accidental shooting

WARREN — Michael A. Sloan Jr., 24, of Maryland Street NW, was arraigned Friday in Warren Municipal Court on felony tampering with evidence and misdemeanor assault, using weapons while intoxicated and discharging firearms in a Thursday night incident in which another man was shot in the leg in the Warren Heights apartments on Maryland Street NW. Sloan was not charged with intentionally shooting the victim. Witnesses said the shooting was an accident. A Warren police report states that officers were called to the 400 block of Maryland Street NW, the Warren Heights Apartment complex, ...

EEOC files discrimination lawsuit against Bon Secours Mercy Health

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court alleging that Mercy Health Physicians Youngstown and Bon Secours Mercy Health in Youngstown violated federal law by allegedly subjecting a Jewish orthopedic surgeon to unfavorable terms and conditions of employment and firing him because of his religion and race shortly after the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks in Israel. The Sept. 23 complaint is assigned to Judge Charles E. Fleming in Cleveland. The suit alleges that the surgeon, of Geauga County, filed a charge of discrimination with the ...

Cortland swears in new full-time firefighter

CORTLAND — City residents will begin using a new garbage hauler Thursday and Mayor Jim Bradley is asking residents for patience. “Ohio Valley Waste is a new vendor for our city, and we need to give them time,” Bradley said. “I feel they will have a good plan and good rates for our ...