Trumbull County News

With all the drugs on the streets and the easy access teens have to narcotics these days, local experts said it's more important than ever for parents to take an active role in teaching kids the dangers of illegal drugs.

A drug bust in Warren nets thousands in cash, drugs and guns this weekend. Officers with the Trumbull-Ashtabula Law Enforcement Task Force, along with the Ohio State Patrol raided this home on Douglas Street in Warren.

Members of the Trumbull County Ministerial Alliance say they received numerous phone calls, some from residents who were upset, by the organization's announcement last week that they forgave a Warren police officer for making racial slurs.

Last week, Tammy Engstrom's family traveled to Columbus, urging a state parole board not to grant clemency for Kenneth Biros.

Jamie Roach and her 5-year-old daughter are still recovering from a Friday crash, that police and prosecutors are calling an act of road rage.

LIBERTY a ' Details remain sketchy about a double homicide late Sunday at a residence at 3022 Northgate Drive in the southern part of the township, near the Youngstown border.

Be on the look out for a child abducted from Northwestern Ohio. Police say 8-month-old Anthony Holland was believed to be abducted by Anthony Reid out of Trumbull County, Ohio.

WARREN a ' The Division of State Fire Marshal is continuing its investigation of a fatal fire this morning in Warren Township.

Calling it one of the worst murder cases he has ever tried, Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins Monday urged the state patrol board in Columbus not to recommend clemency for Kenneth Biros.

It was Oct. 17 when the family of 23-year-old Donovan Toles filed a missing persons report with Warren police.

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins is scheduled to be in Columbus today, set to argue against any clemency for local death row inmate Kenneth Biros, scheduled to be executed Dec.

A Warren police lieutenant who admitted to using racial slurs in two housing complexes in August was cleared Wednesday for a promotion.

Officials in Ohio have drastically lowered the legal weight limit on a historic covered bridge that was damaged by a delivery truck.

Now that Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment which will put casinos in Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Toledo, officials in Brookfield are waiting to see what the local effect of Issue 3 will be.

It appears Trumbull County is already breaking a record this election year. Board of Elections officials said this year 9,585 people cast their ballots prior to Election Day.

The Trumbull County Prosecutor's Office will ask the Ohio Supreme Court to set an execution date for Roderick Davie.

The Ohio Attorney General's office filed a motion Tuesday seeking to lift a stay of execution of the man convicted of killing and cutting to pieces a 22-year-old Brookfield woman in 1991, and then scattering her body throughout Trumbull and Mercer counties.

NORTH JACKSON a ' A Trumbull County man charged with breaking into a current and former school and several businesses this week was lodged in Mahoning County jail pending his Monday arraignment in Mahoning County Area Court in Austintown.

A former Trumbull County sheriff's deputy has been indicted on a sexual battery charge.

A woman from Champion has pleaded guilty to murdering her foster child. Thirty-one-year-old Bonnie Pattinson entered the plea of involuntary manslaughter in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Thursday .