Trumbull County News

The people seeking the Democratic nomination for commissioner are offering voters differing perspectives of the condition of Trumbull County: One says she's the right person to pull it from the doldrums; the other says he's right to continue the county's growth and development.

TCTC SPEAKER TO ADDRESS ASSOCIATION: The Northeast Warren Neighborhood Association will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the Knights of Columbus Hall, East Market Street, Warren.

Area seniors got more than just nutrition this week as the Trumbull County Office of Elderly Affairs provided Easter baskets as a part of their home-delivered meals.

Former Warren Mayor Michael O'Brien put it best when describing the people honored at the Trumbull County Children Services annual Rising Up and Moving On luncheon: "You want to be the kind of person who is being honored today.

A judge handed an ex-convict from Cincinnati a maximum sentence of 28 years behind bars for raping a local woman and kidnapping another woman about a year ago.

SOCIETY PLANS SPRING EVENT: The Niles Historical Society will have their annual spring program April 23 at Ciminero's Banquet Centre in Niles.

City Council approved Monday evening legislation that will improve the water situation for residents who live near Churchill Road and Belmont Avenue.

The 21-year-old Warren woman who was with Taemarr Walker last fall when he was killed during a confrontation with a Warren police officer was being held on $250,000 bond after her initial court appearance Monday.

Carl was born Nov. 20, 1930, the son of Leo and May Dittmer in Bruin, Pa. He grew up in Butler and attended schools there.

More than 150 residents gathered Monday at the village Administration Building to listen to a presentation about a proposed $800 million energy project that would bring 25 to 30 full-time jobs to the village.

Trumbull County Water customers who live along State Route 7 in Brookfield Township, north of Warren Sharon Road, including David Lane and Richard Drive are affected.

Small pox and other diseases were as much killers of men during the Civil War as the fighting between members of the Confederate and the Union armies, according to Peter D'Onofrio, a re-enactor who portrays former Ohio Surgeon General Robert Nelson Barr.

Officials said the blaze at 5147 Bushnell Campbell Road started shortly before noon, probably because of winds picking up flames from a legal fire pit that was outside the barn.

A woman who was in the car with the man shot to death by Warren police last October has been charged in connection with his death.

Groups making the effort to revitalize Warren's Garden District have planted wildflowers and grasses in about 50 vacant lots there so far, but since it takes a while for the gardens to mature, they sought a visual ''something'' to immediately improve the neighborhood.

It came amid continued questions in Ohio and nationally about lethal injections, as state scramble to find alternate sources for the drugs they use to put inmates to death.

Saugeye: Fish minnow-imitating crank baits along the dam and causeways at dawn and dusk; fishing the points with jigs tipped with a minnow can also be productive.

What had been a brownfield site in Hubbard was unveiled as a new 20,000-square-foot green facility serving the oil and natural gas drilling industry.

Angelo "Evangelista" Falcione, 90, of Niles, died at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at Trumbull Memorial Hospital in Warren.

A woman running for the Republican nomination for county commissioner in May is demanding that Trumbull County Engineer Randy Smith step aside temporarily while he's being investigated by the Ohio Ethics Commission.