Portman, Brown applaud nomination

Portman, Brown applaud nomination

WASHINGTON

Ohio’s U.S. Senators, Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman, have applauded news that President Barack Obama has nominated Carole Rendon, 53, of Solon, to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

Rendon, the former first assistant U.S. attorney, has been acting U.S. Attorney for the Cleveland-based district, which includes the Akron, Youngstown and Toledo areas, since Steven Dettelbach’s resignation in February.

Brown and Portman recommended her nomination to the Obama administration. It will now be subject to U.S. Senate confirmation.

Father gets probation for child endangering

GIRARD

A city man was sentenced to one-year’s probation after police found his teenage son passed out from exhaust fumes in February.

A Girard judge sentenced Thomas File, 48, of Girard on Wednesday on a first-degree misdemeanor child-endangering charge. The judge ruled File to be indigent and waived his fines and fees.

Emergency personnel responded to a Washington Avenue home Feb. 3 and found a teenage boy with autism unconscious on the floor. A police report concludes the fumes resulted from generators running at the home. The report states the boy was covered in vomit and excrement and describes “deplorable conditions,” including cockroaches and piles of garbage, in the home.

The boy’s mother, Elizabeth Husk, 42, of Girard also faces a child-endangering charge. She will appear for a pretrial hearing in Girard Municipal Court on a date to be determined.

EGCC appointment

COLUMBUS

Gov. John Kasich appointed a Poland man to the board of trustees of Eastern Gateway Community College. The term of David H. Coy, general manager for WKBN-27, began Thursday and runs until Oct. 16, 2018.

Liberty in Bloom

LIBERTY

Liberty in Bloom is officially underway.

Volunteers spent Thursday planting flowers at Interstate 80 and Belmont Avenue. Founded more than a decade ago, Liberty in Bloom maintains 26 flower beds throughout the township.

To volunteer, call township Trustee Jodi Stoyak at 330-509-8160

Jailed without bond

WARREN

John D. Streeter, 55, of East Market Street, is in the Trumbull County Jail without bond after his arraignment Thursday in Warren Municipal Court on an aggravated-burglary charge.

Streeter was charged after an Adelaide Avenue Southeast man identified him as the person who tried to kick in his front door at 9:40 p.m. Monday, then pulled out a knife after the resident opened the door and pushed him off the front porch.

The victim said Streeter also picked up a rock and smashed out the victim’s pickup truck windshield as he walked from the home.

Streeter has been sent to prison twice in the past for county break-ins — eight months in 2007 for breaking and entering and two years in 1999 for burglary.

Child-sex charges

WARREN

Bernard Weathersbee, 44, of Salt Springs Road in Mineral Ridge, could get a life prison sentence if convicted of some of the 17 rapes and other sexual assaults he’s accused of committing in Trumbull County.

One of Weathersbee’s alleged victims was 4 when the abuse began, prosecutors said. In addition to rape, he faces 10 child-pornography charges, one count of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and one count of tampering with records.

He was arraigned Thursday before Judge Ronald Rice of common pleas court. He is in the county jail in lieu of $250,000 bond.