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REAL ESTATE

Center Township Kathryn P. Pinkerton et al to Marcia Lynn Brandt, home on Sunset Drive; $210,000 Columbiana Adda M. and Matthew Bell to Zachary Witherow, home on Bittersweet Drive; $195,000 Michael Strohecker to Hunter Debee, home on East Park Avenue; $175,000 East Liverpool EBKO Properties Inc to Anthony Witherow, home on First Avenue; $26,500 Brendan Copenace to Frank Thorne, home and other residential structures on Beechwood Avenue; $25,000 Fairfield Township Kevin W. Smith et al to Manoah Joel and Grace Huber, home on Duquense Street; $72,000 Liverpool ...

THE COURTS

Common Pleas New Cases Jaykobe Andrew Johnson, East Liverpool, and Sierra Lynn Johnson, East Liverpool; dissolution sought Tax Ease OH V LLC, Dallas, Texas, vs. Paul John Ice, Negley, et al; foreclosure sought on Allegheny Trail, Negley, property Carrington Mortgage Services LLC, Orange, Califorinia, vs. Misty Gilbo et al; foreclosure sought on West North Avenue, East Palestine, property Brenda and David Halverstadt, Salem, vs. Estate of Stewart P. Weimer and Westfield Insurance Company, Westfield Center, Ohio; compensatory damages sought for vehicular crash Docket ...

POLICE

Salem — A person who did not live there was reported to be sitting on the porch of a residence in the 900 block of West State Street at 3:55 a.m. Wednesday. The person advised officers that they were waiting to meet a relative there, and officers advised them to leave the porch for the time being and wait across the street. — Officers checked on a noise complaint in the 1000 block of Superior Avenue at 10:26 p.m. Tuesday. They found a group of kids playing pickleball in the park after hours, who weren’t being loud nor causing issues. Officers advised them to keep it down and ...

THE COURTS

Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, cases against Devon M. Barrett, 21, Cricket Lane, East Liverpool, were bound over to the county grand jury for fifth-degree felonies of two counts harassment with a bodily substance and misdemeanors of aggravated menacing, assault and disorderly conduct for allegedly attacking another man during an incident at the Foundry in Salem on April 12 while visibly intoxicated, screaming and refusing to desist his disorderly behavior of fighting. After being placed in a police cruiser, he allegedly had blood in his mouth and vomited and ...

THE COURTS

Court News LISBON — A Youngstown man who attacked another man with a knife last year was sentenced to at least three years in prison to a possible four and a half years in prison for felonious assault. Grant Michael Goodballet, 27, appeared for sentencing recently in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court for the second-degree felony charge. He entered a guilty plea to the charge in April. A third-degree felony charge of intimidation of an attorney, victim or witness in a criminal case will be dismissed. Goodballet attacked the other man with a knife on Aug. 23, 2025 in East ...

POLICE

Sheriff’s Office — A deputy at 4:44 p.m. Sunday returned a call to a Center Township resident at Traveler’s Inn, state Route 45, regarding a civil matter. — A traffic complaint was reported at 3:53 p.m. Sunday on Walnut Ridge Road, Washington Road. A deputy returned the call regarding the complaint three times, but was sent to a disconnected voicemail. — Ohio Department of Administrative Services, Columbus, reported an alarm drop at 10:50 p.m. Saturday at the MARCS tower building on Steubenville Pike Road, Center Township. The fence around the tower and the doors on the ...