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Highway Patrol — The investigation into a three-vehicle hit-skip crash in West Township still is underway. An unknown vehicle fled state Route 172, while westbound at 11:25 a.m. Oct. 16 after going left of center and striking the mirror of an eastbound vehicle driven by Bruce McCormick, of Akron. McCormick’s mirror flew back and hit the windshield of the vehicle behind him driven by Shannon Norris of Louisville. — Bryce Foster, of Seigler Road in Salineville, was cited at 12:51 a.m. Oct. 21 in Wayne Township for failure to control, after his vehicle drove off the right side of ...

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Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a case for Douglas Charles Toothman, 47, East Fourth Street, East Liverpool, was bound over to the county grand jury for domestic violence, a fifth-degree felony, for allegedly hitting a woman in her face and head area several times in East Liverpool on Oct. 18. The affidavit said the victim was pregnant. A pretrial was set Nov. 17 for Joseph Daniel Mason, 41, Vine Street, East Liverpool, charged with assault and criminal damaging. He was fined $150 for intoxication. Mason was accused of choking a woman and breaking a brass ...

POLICE

Sheriff’s Office — Chippewa Township Police Department, Beaver County, Pa., requested at 9:24 p.m. Tuesday that a deputy meet them at a residence on Low Road, Elkrun Township, to recover a stolen vehicle tow dolly from their jurisdiction. They had two local men, Johnathan A. Post, Taylor Road, Middleton Township, and Robert L. Byrd III, Denver Street, East Liverpool, in custody in the Beaver County Jail. The vehicle tow dolly was located on the property and retrieved by Sulli’s Towing from Beaver County, Pa. — A woman on Brookdale Avenue, Unity Township, reported at 8:30 ...

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Court News LISBON — A Youngstown man accused of acting suspicious with a sword in East Liverpool earlier this year was ordered evaluated for competency and sanity. David Todd Gamble, 36, Youngstown, was charged with second-degree felony burglary and misdemeanors of theft and criminal mischief for allegedly breaking into another man’s house in East Liverpool and stealing several items on Aug. 27. Police had responded to a report of a man with a sword acting suspicious and found Gamble with the sword lying on the ground with clothing and toys spread out in the parking lots ...

POLICE

Sheriff’s Office — A deputy was dispatched at 4:24 p.m. Tuesday to the 5700 block of Lower Elkton Road, Fairfield Township, for a person walking in the roadway covered up by a blanket. Nobody was found. — A deputy was dispatched at 3:21 p.m. Tuesday to the area of Westville Lake Road at Georgetown Road, Knox Township for construction vehicles going to and from the construction of the new Dollar General, causing a traffic hazard. Upon arrival, the construction vehicles were gone for the day. — A disturbance with people screaming was reported on U.S. Route 62, Knox Township ...

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Court News LISBON —A New Waterford woman accused of threatening to cut another woman on June 12 and then shooting at the other woman’s residence with a gun two days later was ordered evaluated by the Forensic Psychiatric Center of Northeast Ohio for competency and sanity. Rebecca Lynn Simpson, 54, state Route 7, was indicted earlier this year for second-degree felonies of felonious assault and improperly discharging a firearm at or into a habitation or a school safety zone, both with firearm specifications, fifth-degree felony improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle and ...