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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 ...

THE COURTS

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 ...

POLICE

St. Clair Township — Officers contacted North Star Critical Care to transport a suicidal male from a Swickard Street residence after he told officers during a welfare check on Oct. 14 that he planned to kill himself that night. — Officers went to a Wyoming Avenue residence on Oct. 14 to speak to the resident about one of his neighbors saying things about him being a sex offender. — Officers filed a report after for three males who filed a complaint saying they were threatened in the Calcutta Square parking lot on Oct. 14. — Ronald Ream, age and address not provided, was ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary/pretrial hearing was set Nov. 3 for Ayden Elijah Keith Moore, 19, Franklin Street, Salem, charged with second-degree felony burglary and misdemeanors of telecommunications harassment and resisting arrest for allegedly entering a residence in Salem uninvited and slapping a woman multiple times across the face, wrapping his hands around her neck and shoving her to the ground on Oct. 25. On Oct. 26, he would not stop contacting the victim and kept texting her after she asked him to stop. When Salem Police officers ...

POLICE

St. Clair Township — Officers spoke to residents at a Cannon Mills Road residence on Oct. 11 regarding a 911 hang-up call. The residents were sitting out by a fire and said neither of them called. — A warrant was issued for Justin Gamble, 33, address not provided, after he violated a protection at Walmart on Oct. 11. A female asked an associate to have Gamble removed because he was watching the female who had the protection order while she was in the store. The female said Gamble saw her enter the store and entered after her. — A female parked in McDonald’s parking lot ...

REAL ESTATE

Center Township Anthony F. Gallo to Great Trail Investments LLC, home on state Route 517; $78,238 Columbiana Columbiana Floral Company to Vernon M. and Phyllis G. Elwonger, home on Springfield Road; $112,300 East Liverpool Jethro Properties LLC to Craig and Gregg Stowers, home on Edwards Street; $30,500 Kimberly Willey et al to Kevan Merriman, home on Northside Avenue; $30,100 Larry Davis to TIG 1 Properties LLC, home on Surry Road; $45,000 Larry M. Davis to Hope Jackson Ingram, home on Garner Avenue; $65,000 East Palestine Saadia Gorichky to Saadia Gorichky and Taylor ...