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Grand Jury LISBON — An East Palestine man accused of uploading videos of children being sexual assaulted or engaging in sex acts will face 18 felony counts related to his alleged possession of the material. Austin Michael Bowers, 30, North Market Street, was one of 12 defendants openly indicted by the Columbiana County Grand Jury this week. The grand jury met for two days and issued the dozen open indictments and 33 secret indictments for a total of 45 cases. Secret indictments aren’t made public until the defendants are served with the paperwork. Bowers was charged with three ...

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Sheriff’s Office — Kacandra Seddon, 45, Lisa Lane, Lisbon, was arrested again for criminal trespass after a deputy was called at 12:14 a.m. Wednesday to a Depot Road, Center Township residence for a trespass incident. The deputy observed Seddon walking down the driveway of the property she had previously been warned not to trespass on. She just had a case in Columbiana County Municipal Court last week that remains pending for criminal trespass at the same property and now she was taken into custody again and taken to jail for the same charge. — A man on Walnut Grove Lane, Unity ...

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Court News LISBON — A Wellsville man convicted of trying to hit a woman with a vehicle during a domestic in 2024 was sentenced to 12 months in prison for violating the terms of his probation. Tyler J. Corbisello, 31, 10th Street Extension, appeared recently in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court for a probation revocation hearing due to violating the terms of his community control, also known as probation, which was then dishonorably terminated. Charges against Corbisello included third-degree felony strangulation, fifth-degree felony attempted vehicular assault (lesser offense of ...

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Court News LISBON — An East Liverpool man accused of having sexual contact with a child, starting when the child was 6 and continuing until the child was 15 years old, entered a guilty plea to one count of gross sexual imposition. Shawn M. McKinnon, 31, Minerva Street, East Liverpool, will face sentencing in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court on Aug. 24 for the third-degree felony charge. Seven counts of third-degree felony gross sexual imposition and one count of fourth-degree felony gross sexual imposition will be dismissed. The eight counts stemmed from sexual contact with the ...

POLICE

Sheriff’s Office — An alarm was reported at 11:05 p.m. Saturday at Dollar General, state Route 172, Hanover Township. The keyholder was on scene and all doors and windows were secure. — Aultman Alliance Community Hospital requested a welfare check at 10:20 p.m. Saturday on a patient from Slater Road, Butler Township, who left the hospital against medical advice and was on narcotics. A deputy spoke with the woman, who was at her residence and was fine. — A Franklin Township woman at 8:14 p.m. Friday reported her ex-boyfriend is continuously driving past her residence on ...

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Court News LISBON — A man accused of pushing a woman in the chest during an incident in January was sentenced in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court to nine months in prison. Johnathon R. Easterday, 36, Aten Avenue, Wellsville, appeared for sentencing Friday on a third-degree felony charge of domestic violence. He received credit for 92 days served in jail. Earlier this spring, he pleaded guilty to the charge for pushing a woman in the chest, which caused her to fall into a glass box in Wellsville on Jan. 29, with two or more domestic violence convictions on his record. Also in ...