The roads being addressed are Logan Way between state Route 304 and Warner Road; Ridge Road from King Graves Road to 3,500 feet south; Niles Warren River Road from Deforest Road to the Niles city limits; South Canal Street from Bright Baldwin Road to the Newton Falls Village limits; and Shannon Road from Girard city limits to Tibbetts Wick Road.
Game Changers will receive the funds collected in June; a Approved a 3-ton weight limit on a bridge on McCleary Jacoby Road in Bazetta because of a recent inspection by MS Consultants; a Transferred Thomas A. Elder from the position of water operator in charge to chief water operator for the sanitary engineer's department for about $27 an hour; a Authorized a consultant agreement with Baker, Bednar, Snyder and Associates Inc. to develop documents the county will need to create bid specifications for improvements at the Trumbull County Jail.
Ohio's top attorney is appealing to the full panel of judges on the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals a ruling that convicted murderer Danny Lee Hill has an intellectual disability and should not be put to death. The appeal filed Friday with the court in Cincinnati states a three-judge panel of the court erred when they made that determination on Feb. 2. The smaller panel's ruling upheld Hill's conviction, but overturned a lower court's ruling upholding the death sentence and ordered the case back into Trumbull County Common Pleas Court for resentencing.
A local drug task force isn't waiting for the opioid epidemic to be declared a state or national emergency. They already are working to clear the streets of drug dealers, leaders of the Trumbull Ashtabula Group Law Enforcement Task Force said.
The 11th District Court of Appeals has upheld a Trumbull County magistrate's 2013 ruling against county officials that absolved 10 Mineral Ridge residents of paying the cost of sewer line extensions serving their neighborhood. In a ruling filed June 30, the appellate court unanimously agreed with the decision of Magistrate Beth Anne Aurillo, who ruled almost three years ago that property owners in Mineral Ridge and Vienna were not required to pay for sewer tap-ins because they were not properly notified of costs.