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Veteran’s Park stairs

NEWTON FALLS

Members of the Air Force Reserve’s 910th Civil Engineer Squadron, based at nearby Youngstown Air Reserve Station, are scheduled to put the finishing touches on a project to rebuild the stairs at Veteran’s Park in the city today.

The project for 910th Citizen Airmen to demolish the stairs as well as design and rebuild the new stairs is part of the Air Force Community Partnership Program, ongoing locally since June 2014.

City Manager Jack Haney said city officials and 910th Airlift Wing leadership reached an agreement where the city provided project materials and the 910th Airlift Wing provided engineering and manpower at no cost to the city.

Missing teen found

YOUNGSTOWN

A teen that had been missing for almost four days was found Wednesday morning.

Officials say Ricky Sigmon III showed up at a home on McGuffey Road on the East Side, according to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner.

Sigmon is a resident of the Safe House on Eastview Avenue, near state Route 616 on the city’s East Side. According to police, Sigmon is developmentally challenged and suffers from oppositional defiant disorder and post-traumatic distress disorder.

He was taken to ValleyCare Northside Medical Center due to him not having his medication for a prolonged period of time.

Dog cruelty case reset

CAMPBELL

The trial of a man accused of shooting and killing a neighbor’s dog has been reset for Dec. 1 in Campbell Municipal Court.

Brandon Stores, 30, of Campbell was previously scheduled to appear for a trial today on misdemeanor charges of cruelty to animals and discharging a firearm within city limits.

Police charged Stores in October 2015 in response to reports he shot and killed a Rotweiller-mix dog that had escaped from a Princess Street home. Stores said he shot the dog to protect a 12-year-old girl, a police report states.

The court granted a continuance of Stores’ trial Tuesday due to the unavailability of a witness and the recent indictment of Stores in an unrelated case. A Mahoning County grand jury indicted Stores in July for possession of cocaine.

Washing facility

WARREN

The Trumbull County Engineer’s Office was awarded a $500,000 low-interest loan Wednesday to help build a shared facility for washing buses and trucks.

The loan comes from the Ohio Development Services Agency’s Local Government Innovation Fund.

It will be for construction of a facility for washing two or more buses or trucks at a time and will be located at the county engineer’s office. It will extend the useful life of vehicles and reduce staff time getting vehicles clean, officials have said.

It will be a joint project among the county engineer, county commissioners, city of Warren, Howland, Howland schools and Warren schools.

New Ohio app

COLUMBUS

Ohioans with iPads will have access to a little more context on Ohio’s historic role in presidential elections, thanks to a new online resource developed by a central Ohio college teacher, with assistance from the secretary of state’s office and state historians.

“Ohio: Pathway to the Presidency” was unveiled earlier this week at the Statehouse. It is available for free through Apple. It’s designed for iPads but will work on other Apple devices (though not Chromebooks or other brands).

The electronic publication was created by Jason LaMar from Columbus State Community College, as part of Apple’s distinguished educator program.

Details of the presidential election will be updated in coming weeks. There’s also a live feed for users wanting to keep close tabs on election night results.

New HR director

WARREN

The Trumbull County commissioners hired a new human-resources director, Richard Jackson of Pepper Pike, near Cleveland.

Jackson, who is HR director and risk-management and assistant safety-service director for the city of Elyria, will earn $80,296 annually. He begins work Oct. 3. He replaces James Keating, longtime HR director, who retired this summer.

Child porn sentence

WARREN

Jeremy M. Hollingsworth of Atlantic Street, 38, was sentenced to two years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty earlier to 10 counts of pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor.

Investigators conducted a raid on his home in November after determining Hollingsworth used a computer to transfer files containing child pornography to another person.

Adams pleads guilty

WARREN

Keith L. Adams Jr., 20, of Adelaide Avenue Southeast, pleaded guilty Wednesday to failure to comply with the orders of a police officer and improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle related to a December car crash into a Girard pizza shop.

He will be sentenced in about four weeks by Judge W. Wyatt McKay after the county Adult Probation Department conducts a pre-sentence investigation of his background.

Weathersfield police said they chased Adams from Weathersfield into Girard, where Adams crashed into the Melfi & Santangelo Pizza Parlor and Italian Deli on North State Street.

Liberty trustees

LIBERTY

The Liberty Township trustees will have a special business meeting at 11:30 a.m. today at the township administration building, 1315 Church Hill-Hubbard Road.

New village mural

EAST PALESTINE

Village officials will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the village’s newly completed mural on the Cornerstone Insurance Building, 40 S. Market St., at 11 a.m. Friday.

Guilford Lake meeting

LISBON

The Guilford Lake Civic meeting will take place at 7 p.m. today at the Guilford Lake Ruritan Hall, 33554 state Route 172. Speaker will be Pamela Nixon, a geologist with the Ohio Division of Drinking and Ground Water’s Northeast District. She will present information on the area’s underground aquifer.

Additional candidates

COLUMBUS

Libertarian Gary Johnson’s name will appear on Ohio’s presidential ballot, though not with his party affiliation.

The former New Mexico governor and Libertarian presidential candidate instead was one of two candidates certified by the secretary of state’s office as independent candidates for the November general election.

Johnson and presidential hopeful Richard Duncan both submitted enough verifiable voter signatures to state elections officials by the deadline earlier this month to qualify for the ballot, the secretary of state’s office announced Wednesday.

Two other independent candidates – Darrell Castle and Michael Steinberg – did not submit enough valid signatures to be certified.