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Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, cases against Donnie Mergenthaler, 26, Maryland Avenue, Salem, were bound over to the county grand jury for fifth-degree felony domestic violence and misdemeanor assault for allegedly pushing a pregnant woman multiple times threatening to hit her unless he got car keys, then striking another woman multiple times and slamming her to the ground when she tried to get between them on Aug. 10 in Perry Township. Cases against Kevin Hupp, 29, Idaho Avenue, East Liverpool, were bound over to the county grand jury for fourth-degree ...

POLICE

Sheriff’s Office — A woman on Carmel Achor Road, Middleton Township, reported at 9:24 p.m. Saturday that she and her wife live with her mother, brother and sisters and every time they take a shower one of them will open the door and walk in on them. — A woman requested a report on file at 6:48 p.m. Saturday per her insurance company for a private property accident at a relative’s residence on Salem Grange Road, Salem Township between her vehicle and the relative’s vehicle with minor damage. — Crystal Olsen, 50, Butler Grange Road, Salem, was charged with domestic ...

POLICE

Sheriff’s Office — A woman on Grant Street, Center Township called 911 at 7:57 p.m. Aug. 7 to request an ambulance take her to the hospital due to a mental health crisis. When deputies arrived, Northstar EMS transported her to East Liverpool City Hospital in East Liverpool. — A woman on Rose Drive, Center Township, reported at 7:57 p.m. Aug. 7 that her 13-year-old nephew who lives with her had been gone from the residence for two hours. Upon arrival, deputies spoke to the juvenile, who was sitting outside the front door of the residence. The juvenile then went back inside and ...

REAL ESTATE

Butler Township Ardith L. Senych et al to Patricia I. McCallister, mobile home on McCann Road; $81,000 Center Township Barbara A. Cox and Sandra K. Gregg to James T. and Barbara A. Cox, 10.25 acre farm on state Route 45; $60,500 April A. Pozenel to Jeremiah M. and Michele L. Javens, home on Vincent Lane; $440,000 Columbiana William C. Fitch to Justin M. and Harmony Neff, home on Spruce Street; $106,000 East Liverpool Phillip P. Metsch to Little Indian Holdings LLC, other residential structures on Pennsylvania Avenue; $100 Twyla L. McElhaney to James Chester Pugh et al, ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a man who was found hiding in the attic insulation of a woman who had a protection order against him on Aug. 4 and tried contacting her again four days later was sentenced to 71 days in the county jail. James Elliott, 34, West Sixth Street, East Liverpool, pleaded no contest and was found guilty of two counts of violation of a protection order, one count of domestic violence and one count of obstructing official business by Judge Kelly Linger. He was fined $700, ordered to complete 100 hours community service and have no ...

POLICE

Liverpool Township — An unnamed female driver was issued a citation and court date for failure to yield after nearly causing an accident at the intersection of Rubicon Street and Parkway Avenue. The officer asked what she was doing as she nearly caused an accident that could have been serious enough to seriously injure or kill the child she had in the back seat and the passenger she had in the front seat. The driver said she was looking at her GPS. She was holding her cell phone using it as a GPS. — An officer sitting stationary on Dresden Avenue heard a vehicle with a loud ...