Trumbull County News

A judge called a Youngstown heroin dealer ''every parent's worst nightmare'' before handing him consecutive sentences and a 20-year prison term for supplying the drugs that killed a 17-year-old teenage girl who overdosed on her birthday last year.

This week, Lost & Found Ohio Pets reports that there more pets that have been picked up as strays than have been reported missing.

A Niles man seemed dumbfounded when a judge asked him why he followed another man out of a bar and attacked him, using a box cutter to try to slash his throat.

Aggravated murder with a death penalty specification is the first part of a nine count indictment handed up against 41-year-old Willie Gene Wilks, Junior.

On Wednesday, the odds changed. Milhoan said he walked up unnoticed to a man who was loading a flat-screen TV into the back of a car that matched the description of a vehicle police had been looking for the past several weeks.

A newly opened walking trail recently dedicated in memory of Ethan Swift is designed to help nature lovers and runners enjoy the outdoors.

Two state senators want to do away with the statute of limitations on rape and sexual battery, meaning perpetrators could face charges for crimes committed decades prior.

Registration for Summer Reading Club will begin Wednesday at Portage County District Library branches.

Just four Ohio tornadoes since 1950 have received the most severe F5 designation.

Following through on his warning about a month ago, Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Andrew Logan ordered a 61-year-old accused of murder institutionalized until his competency is restored.

The Trumbull County Coroner's Office has confirmed that a Warren Township man whose body was discovered in a car burning in Lordstown last week died from a gunshot wound to the head.

The Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer's Office issued a boil advisory for water customers on White Oak Drive in Hubbard Township due to a water main break.

City police went to a Dickey Avenue home early Sunday morning on reports of a possible disturbance with injuries, but found the body of a man in his backyard.

The state Controlling Board OK'd additional funding Monday to remove a dam and restore a creek at the Camp Ravenna Military Joint Military Center in Portage and Trumbull counties.

The state Controlling Board OK'd additional funding Monday to remove a dam and restore a creek at the Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center in Trumbull County.

Dental records show the man to be Michael C. Anderson, 23, of Warren Township, Lordstown police said.

Keith was a standout basketball player for LaBrae High School and is the current boys basketball coach at Ursuline High School.

The Brookfield Local School District is in a state of fiscal emergency, according to a report released Tuesday by Auditor of State Dave Yost.

Lordstown police Chief Brent Milhoan said a passing motorist called about 1:15 p.m. after spotting a burning vehicle in a wooded area near a cell tower on the north side of Industrial Trace.

James D. Maderitz, 81, passed away Monday evening, May 13, 2013, at St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown surrounded by his loving family.