Portman’s TV ads

Portman’s TV ads

COLUMBUS

U.S. Sen. Rob Portman’s re-election campaign will begin airing three television commercials today throughout the state as part of its $15 million ad strategy. All deal with Portman’s efforts to “combat the prescription-drug and heroin epidemic,” according to his campaign.

Portman, a Republican, will spend $15 million – $14 million on TV and $1 million online – between today and Election Day.

Arrested after chase

AUSTINTOWN

Officers arrested a man involved in a car-turned-foot chase on Norquest Boulevard on Saturday night.

According to the police report, when officers initiated a traffic stop on Kleber Avenue for a car without its headlights on, the car sped up then came to a quick stop on Norquest. Four or five passengers ran from police into the woods.

Officers apprehended Jacob Perry, 19, of East Center Street, Conneaut, who said the group ran because they had marijuana on them, reports said. Officers charged Perry with failure to comply, resisting arrest and underage possession of alcohol after finding beer in the trunk. The other passengers were not found.

Sought in arson case

BOARDMAN

Police are searching for a person who will face an aggravated-arson charge for a fire in a township residence Saturday.

The victim told police the suspect called her phone more than 30 times Friday until she answered the next morning while still out with friends. The suspect told the victim to hurry home because her house was on fire.

When she arrived, she reportedly found furniture turned over, holes punched in the wall and some of her clothing burned in the kitchen sink.

Child endangering

WARREN

A’Yania D. Martin, 24, of Maryland Street Northwest, was charged with two counts of child endangering and domestic violence and taken to the Trumbull County Jail on Monday after police said she pulled a 60-pound television set off of a stand, hitting children 18 months and 3 years in the head and back, “flattening the children,” according to a police report.

Both children cried as officers pulled the TV off them and removed them from the room. Both children were described as having apparent minor injuries.

Police were called to the Maryland residence at 8:30 a.m. for a domestic dispute involving Martin and her mother.

When police arrived, they observed Martin pull on a DVD player to take it with her, and it caused the TV to come off the stand, hitting the children, a boy and a girl. When the mother of the children, 22, of the Maryland address, arrived, police arrested her on a warrant.

Trustees to meet

LIBERTY

The township trustees will have a special meeting at noon today at the administration building, 1315 Church Hill-Hubbard Road, to discuss the 2017 paving program.

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