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REAL ESTATE

Columbiana EAS Mangement of the Valley to Shelly Logan, home on North Pearl Street; $182,000 Yankee Holdings LTD to Sonny Rose Investments Company, home on South Cross Street and three-family dwelling on Union Street; $350,000 East Liverpool Chase K. Klein to John Eric Bay, home on St. Clair Avenue; $110,000 First Federal Savings & Loan Assoc. to Patrick and Carrie King, full service bank and parking garage on Broadway; $132,000 NCST Owner LLC to NATS Real Estate Inc., other commercial structures and commercial vacant land on Fifth Street (former New Castle School of Trades ...

POLICE

East Liverpool – A driver with an expired temporary tag was given a verbal warning following a Dec. 27 traffic stop on St. Clair Avenue. – A driver with only one headlight was issued a verbal warning following a Jan. 27 traffic stop on St. Clair Avenue. – An Officer advised a male to stop panhandling and to leave the apartments where he was panhandling on Sixth Street on Dec. 27. – Officers told a female at an Odgen Street residence that she would need to start eviction proceedings to get her boyfriend out of the residence if she didn’t want him there due to his name ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary/pretrial hearing was set Jan. 14 for Preston Lamar English, 32, Densmore Avenue, East Liverpool, charged with first-degree felonies of aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery, fifth-degree felony having weapons while under disability and two counts of misdemeanor aggravated menacing. English was accused of allegedly climbing through the window of an East Liverpool residence on Dec. 9, 2025, brandishing a firearm toward a man and woman, making several threats while pointing the firearm toward them and taking ...

THE COURTS

Grand Jury LISBON — An East Liverpool man accused of allegedly engaging in sexual activity with a 14-year-old child last year is facing charges of second-degree felony sexual battery and third-degree felony unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. Robert M. Pressley, 37, Manor Lane, was served Wednesday with a secret indictment issued by the Columbiana County Grand Jury for the two charges for alleged engaging in sexual activity with the child victim on June 29, 2025. Also served with secret indictments were: — Brandon Staudacher, 34, St. Clair Avenue, East Liverpool, two counts ...

POLICE

East Liverpool — An officer responded on Dec. 23 to a Pennsylvania Avenue residence for a complaint about a semi-truck driver driving past the residence and blowing his horn six or seven times. — An officer on Dec. 23 observed a NorthStar Ambulance on the side of West Second Street with its hazard lights on and stopped to check on it. The EMTs told the officer they were in route with a patient to a nursing home in Chester when they hit a pothole and lost all power in the ambulance. East Liverpool Fire Department was unable to transport the patient, so they were waiting for ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary hearing was set Jan. 14 for Daniel A. Dochterman, 58, last known address West Wilson Street, Salem, charged with breaking and entering, a fifth-degree felony, for allegedly making entry into a residence in Salem on Jan. 6. The victim said no one should have been there and he wanted to press charges. A pretrial was set March 24 for Matthew Miller, 35, Taylor Road, Negley, charged with domestic violence for allegedly being verbally and physically abusive to a woman, grabbing, hitting or pinching her on her arms, ...