Real-estate tax bills

Real-estate tax bills

YOUNGSTOWN

Mahoning County property owners will receive their first-half real-estate tax bills in the mail in the coming days, County Treasurer Daniel R. Yemma said.

The deadline to pay without penalty is March 10.

Property owners who do not receive statements by Monday should call the treasurer’s office at 330-740-2460 to confirm payment amounts or request copies of bills, Yemma said.

To increase efficiency and reduce cost, Yemma encourages all property owners to take advantage of technology by paying their taxes online.

STEM lecturer

YOUNGSTOWN

Dr. Minerva Cordero will give the Edward W. Powers STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math – Lecture Series at Youngstown State University at 4 p.m. Friday.

Students, their families and members of public are welcome to attend, for free. Cordero is associate dean of the college of science, professor of mathematics and distinguished teaching professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.

The lecture will take place in the Ohio Room at Kilcawley Center.

Appeal by attorney

WARREN

An attorney has appealed the conviction and sentence of Carlisa Davis, 19, to 30 months in prison related to her two small children having to be revived at the hospital with the opiate reversal drug naloxone.

The appeal, filed with the Warren-based 11th District Court of Appeals, is likely to focus on evidentiary rulings by Judge W. Wyatt McKay of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court and the weight of evidence presented by prosecutors, a filing says.

Davis, of Randolph Street Northwest, was convicted at trial of two counts of felony child endangering and was sentenced Jan. 5.

Her children, then age 21 months and 9 months, were revived in February 2016 at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital after Davis and the father of one of the children brought the children to the hospital.

Hearing rescheduled in ex-mayor rape case

WARREN

A pretrial hearing scheduled for Friday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court for Richard Keenan, a former Hubbard mayor charged with raping a small child, has been reset to 1:30 p.m. March 17. His trial date is 11 a.m. April 24.

Keenan, 66, of Moore Street in Hubbard, could be sentenced to life in prison without parole if convicted of any of the eight counts of rape he faces. He also is charged with four counts of attempted rape and eight counts of gross sexual imposition.

Authorities say he admitted on several occasions to raping and molesting the girl over a three-year period beginning when the child was 4.

103 ODs in 2016

WARREN

Still unofficial statistics from the Trumbull County Coroner’s Office indicate Trumbull County had at least 103 overdose deaths in 2016.

Shelley Mazanetz, chief investigator, released updated statistics this week but said there still could be more added to the list once the last of the toxicology results are available.

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