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REAL ESTATE

Butler Township Mark D. and Duane A. Lynn to Griffin Ray Bardo, home on Shelton Road; $150,000 Joseph K. Crowe to Vitaliy Kovalevych et al, home on Terraho Drive; $393,500 Columbiana Mathew and Victoria Rhodes to Aaron A. Tyger, home on West Friend Street; $188,500 East Liverpool Trevor Rentals LLC to Eric McFarland, home on Blakeley Street; $30,400 Larry M. Davis to Ryan S. Turner, home on Holliday Street; $15,000 East Palestine JB&D Holdings LTD to Justin Moffatt, home on Park Avenue and other residential structures on South Street; $193,000 Melanie Davis to Frank ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary hearing was set Jan. 7 for Dale Kenneth Lefebvre, 55, Wells Hollow Road, Wellsville, charged with felonious assault, a second-degree felony, for allegedly grabbing a woman and throwing her at a coffee table after an argument, causing a deep cut to her forehead when her head hit the corner of the table on Jan. 1 in Yellow Creek Township. A preliminary hearing was set Jan. 7 for Robert J. McLaughlin Jr., 65, Lincoln Avenue, East Liverpool, charged with fourth-degree felony domestic violence for allegedly shoving a ...

POLICE

Sheriff’s Office — A deputy at 3:13 p.m. Thursday attempted to call a person regarding a reported sex offense, but both times the deputy called, the number was advised as disconnected. The address on the report was Winona Road, Butler Township. — Deputies responded at 10:44 p.m. Wednesday for a shooting complaint on Bayard Road, West Township, with no details as to what happened on the report. Deputies spoke to both parties involved and advised them how to proceed. Deputies were then called back to the same address for an alleged assault. David Scott Lyon, 64, Bayard Road, ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a pretrial was set March 17 for Randy Joe Cox, 45, Canfield, charged with engaging in prostitution and possessing criminal tools for allegedly responding to an undercover familial ad on a known prostitution website of a mother and daughter and arranging for sexual activity with both for $140, then arriving in East Palestine on Dec. 30 for the meeting with the phone used to make the arrangements in his possession. Common Pleas New Cases Elizabeth Mackall, Chippewa Trail, Negley, vs. Luke W. Mackall, Union Ridge Road, ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a pretrial was set Jan. 7 for Zachary A. Taylor, 37, Rose Drive, Lisbon, charged with three counts of criminal trespass for allegedly trespassing at a property on state Route 45 in Center Township on June 14, 2025, again on June 27, 2025 and on July 1, 2025. He had been trespassed from the property in April 2025. A probation violating hearing was also set for Jan. 7 for Taylor for a 2025 case of unlawful restraint and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia. A pretrial was set March 18 for Nickole E. Sears, 41, Faulk ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, cases against Dorian Lowrey, 50, Enon Valley, Pa., were bound over to the county grand jury for fourth-degree felony domestic violence, two counts of fifth-degree violation of a protection order and misdemeanors of aggravated menacing and criminal trespass. Lowrey was accused of allegedly violating a protection order by being on a protected person’s property, sitting in her car inside the garage in Unity Township on Dec. 20. On Aug. 20, he was accused of allegedly throwing a cell phone at a woman who has an active ...