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Center Township Pritchard Hill Reig LLC to Latrell Crute, home on Pritchard Avenue; $138,000 Columbiana Matthew S. Lewis to Ricky A. Maple, home on state Route 14; $145,000 East Liverpool Krista K. Frank to Hollie H. Smith, .81 acres on Lisbon Street; $7,600 Brooke E. Bennett to Mark Moritz, home on Rigby Street; $9,000 East Palestine Joyce A. Herstine to Lacey L. Corbin, home on England Drive; $74,000 Todd and Jamie Rosen to Adrian B. Glaindez et al, home on Hillside Drive; $589,900 Fairfield Township Eric and Kayla Ward Jr. to Tim and Denise Dickey, home on Fairfield ...

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Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary hearing was set April 8 for Travis B. Ferguson, 39, 10th Street Extension, Wellsville, charged with fourth-degree felony passing bad checks for allegedly issuing a bad check for $1,018 to Quaker City Septic in Leetonia on Sept. 16, 2025. A pretrial was set May 27 for Thomas Randall Hughes II, 38, state Route 154, Negley, charged with theft for allegedly attempting to scan 32-cent stickers for all of his items at the Calcutta Walmart, trying to take 11 items valued at $243 on Jan. 24. A sentencing hearing was ...

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Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a Salineville woman has been bound over to the grand jury for allegedly having a knife out at the Utica Shale Academy. Britania B. Brown, 44, Haiti Road, is charged with illegal conveyance or possession of a deadly weapon in a school safety zone, a fifth-degree felony. Salineville police officers were called to the Utica Shale school on East Main Street, Salineville on Jan. 14 for a report of a woman with a knife and found Brown a few blocks away at BK Beverage. A police affidavit said she admitted to having a knife open ...

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Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary/pretrial hearing was set March 30 for Matthew Scott Howard, 39, Annesley Road, East Liverpool, charged with fifth-degree felony improper handling firearms in a motor vehicle and misdemeanors of operating a vehicle impaired first offense and OVI refusal with prior within 20 years. Howard allegedly had a loaded 9mm handgun in a holster near the handlebars of his motorcycle during a traffic stop while allegedly impaired on March 9 in Elkrun Township. A pretrial was set May 27 for Christina M. Falconer, 49, Bower ...

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Court News LISBON — An East Liverpool man accused of multiple drug counts entered a guilty plea to all charges and was sentenced to nine months in prison. Nathan E. Elkins, 37, Dresden Avenue, pleaded guilty to third-degree felony tampering with evidence, fifth-degree felonies of possessing criminal tools, possession of heroin, possession of a fentanyl-related compound, two counts aggravated possession of drugs and two counts possession of drugs and misdemeanor obstructing official business for concealing narcotics in a partially hollowed out rubberized male private part tied to ...

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Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, cases against David Q. Rhodes, 53, Creek Road, New Waterford, were bound over to the county grand jury for fourth-degree felony strangulation and misdemeanor domestic violence for allegedly grabbing a woman by the neck, causing her to have a hard time breathing, and throwing her to the ground during a domestic on Feb. 25 in Unity Township. Cases against Darrien J. Greenlee, 32, North Market Street, Lisbon, were bound over to the county grand jury for harassment with a bodily substance, a fifth-degree felony, and misdemeanors ...