Ed Runyan

Judge scolds semi driver for firing gun at truck’s trailer

Former Poland police officer and Austintown trustee seeks early release from prison

Narcotics-based OVIs rise in Ohio

Woman who provided gun to shooter at Youngstown apartment complex sentenced

Hubbard woman gets 6 months in jail for running over victim’s leg

Ex-deputy pleads guilty to improper use of database

Man gets 3 years for stabbing at group home

Jury deadlocks on assault in Boardman police clash

YOUNGSTOWN — Sergio F. Gonzalez III of Garland Avenue showed no outward reaction as Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court read guilty verdicts Thursday to two counts of rape. Gonzalez was handcuffed and taken back to the Mahoning County jail, where he will await sentencing. He will get a life prison sentence […]

YOUNGSTOWN — Angel Chico, 28, of Wilson Avenue, Campbell, was sentenced Thursday to 6 to 7.5 years in prison after pleading guilty earlier to felonious assault with a gun specification and misdemeanor offenses of domestic violence and violating a protection order. The charges stem after Chico shot at a group of people standing on the […]

YOUNGSTOWN — JaBrae L. Perry, 47, is no longer in danger of getting the death penalty in the Aug. 24, 2021, shooting deaths of his girlfriend, Ayanna Mills, 49, and her son, Brandon Bell, 28, at Mills’ home on Salt Springs Road. Judge John Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court ruled Thursday that Perry […]

YOUNGSTOWN — Da’Qwann R. Henderson, 26, of Bryson Street, was sentenced to an additional 2.5 years in prison Wednesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, on top of the 5.5 years he got last year. The additional 2.5 years resulted from several convictions in two separate criminal cases. In one from 2019, Henderson pleaded guilty […]

Crime Stoppers, cold cases focus of new podcast series

YOUNGSTOWN — The fiance of Rawsheem Aponte said people in multiple vehicles chased the Camaro she, Aponte and their two children were in for 30 minutes before Aponte drove down the dead-end Mohawk Avenue on April 26, 2022, and was killed in a hail of gunfire. Rikya Wright testified in Youngstown Municipal Court on Wednesday […]

YOUNGSTOWN —Tools on the internet such as Openpayrolls.com allow a person to view salaries of individuals working for government agencies, such as counties across the United States. It provides eye-popping numbers, like the highest-paid employees working for Mahoning County, for instance. The website shows some workers are hauling in more than $200,000 in a year. […]

YOUNGSTOWN — Saun Peterson, 21, testified Monday he was the driver of a dark blue Mercedes Benz that drove around the Martha’s Boulevard Bar and Grille on Southern Boulevard several times April 15 to intimidate the people outside the tavern. At the time, a birthday party for a 16-year-old was taking place at the tavern. […]

YOUNGSTOWN — In January 2022, Zulimar Vazquez, then 23, told Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court about the pain she suffered being separated from her 3-year-old son after the boy shot himself with her brother’s handgun. “Every day I ask God to return him to my hands,” she said. “God knows […]

YOUNGSTOWN — Mason P. Rusu, 18, of White Beech Lane, Austintown, was indicted on felony vandalism and two misdemeanor counts of criminal damaging or endangering in an Aug. 3 incident in which he is accused of shooting at a house and several vehicles, including cars driving along Mahoning Avenue in Austintown. A report from Austintown […]

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County commissioners Thursday approved a resolution banning large solar facilities and large “economically significant wind farms” in unincorporated areas of Green Township. The commissioners approved the measure 3-0. Before the vote, Audrey Tillis, county administrator, said the public input at the Oct. 30 public hearing at Greenford Christian Church, 11767 Lisbon […]

YOUNGSTOWN — Johnny Norris, 42, pleaded guilty Wednesday to felony strangulation and felony domestic violence for offenses in July and will be sentenced later. Prosecutors and his attorney are jointly recommending that he get 5 to 7 1/2 years in prison. Norris was indicted on one count of kidnapping and two counts of strangulation, plus […]