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Sheriff’s Office — An active alarm was reported at 1:15 a.m. Wednesday at Farmers National Bank, U.S. Route 62, Damascus, with all windows and doors found secure. Nothing suspicious was seen. — An active alarm was reported at 12:53 a.m. Tuesday at XL Sand and Gravel, state Route 170, Middleton Township where workers running a water pump line nearby reported not seeing anyone around. The scalehouse and other buildings were found secure with nothing suspicious found. — A deputy on routine patrol at 12:25 a.m. Tuesday located an occupied vehicle at Elkrun Park in Elkton, which ...

THE COURTS

Common Pleas NEW CASES Brian J. Spier, Dairy Lane, East Liverpool, vs. Kashmere D. Spier, North Market Street, Lisbon; divorce sought. Martha Dray, Campbell Boulevard, Wellsville, vs. Donald Board, Campbell Boulevard, Wellsville; divorce sought. DOCKET ENTRIES Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC vs. Julie L. Carlisle; mortgage foreclosure ordered for Cleveland Street, Salem property. Ohio Laser, Inc. vs. Gregg Simpson; defense motion for change of venue denied. Bobbiejo McEwen-Worley and Stephen Worley; dissolution granted. Ashlie Lynn Williams and Jesse Lee Williams; dissolution ...

POLICE

Highway Patrol — Vera L. Groves, 81, Chester, W.Va., was cited for failure to yield after her vehicle pulled from a private drive on state Route 7 in Fairfield Township at 7:03 p.m. May 12 and struck a southbound vehicle driven by Jolene L. Lacey, 38, West Main Street, New Waterford. No injuries were reported. — Preston Cowdery, 25, Main Street, Wellsville, was cited for improper passing after his off-road vehicle started to make a left turn while being passed and was struck by a northbound vehicle driven by Justin J. Anderson, 30, North Elm Street, Columbiana, on state Route 7 ...

POLICE

East Liverpool — An Ogden Street resident told police investing a possible breaking and entering on May 3 that the light from the sun was shining through her window in a manor she had never seen before and that there was no one in the home but the light scared her and she decided to call the police and that everything was okay. — Bri Cook, 26, address not provided, was taken into custody for an outstanding warrant through the county when she came into the police department on May 3 to report an incident that had happened earlier in the day. — Officers forwarded a report ...

THE COURTS

Court News LISBON — An East Liverpool man accused of assaulting a woman last August was placed under community control for three years, but ordered to serve up to six months at the Eastern Ohio Correction Center. Phillip Jackson, 69, Riverview Street, appeared for sentencing recently in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court for a lesser offense of aggravated assault, a fourth-degree felony, and misdemeanor domestic violence. A second-degree felony of strangulation was dismissed. The aggravated assault was originally felonious assault, a second-degree felony. According to a police ...

POLICE

East Liverpool — Officers assisted a St. Clair Township police officer at Tri-State Ford with an investigation he was currently working on regarding a stolen phone from Walmart. The St. Clair Township officer interviewed the male who admitted to taking the phone. — Officers took a report for property damage on May 1 for a resident who said the bricks on the top of her Jackman Street property retaining wall were broken off. — Officers investigating a possible assault on East 5th Street on May 1 viewed video footage and determined no assault took place. It was people trying ...