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Common Pleas NEW CASES Arin Noel Altomare, Parkview Drive, Columbiana, and Teresa Lynn Newsome Altomare, Columbus; dissolution sought. Pamela Hough, Salem Alliance Road, Salem, vs. Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, Columbus, and West Branch Nursing Home LTD, doing business as Pleasant View North Retirement Center, Warren; one case for appeal of claim denial and one case for a refile of 2025 case. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, Orange, Calif. vs. Cynthia R. Smith, also known as Cynthia R. Temple,, North Market Street, Lisbon, et al.; mortgage foreclosure sought for North ...

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Columbiana Travis M. and Jennifer R. Burton to Christine and Anthony Horvath, home on East Friend Street; $182,000 James Johnson to John A. and Christine K. McCamon, condo on Timberline Drive; $315,000 East Liverpool Davenda LLC to Gina E. Dunlap to Erik B. Sullivan, home on Vine Street; $86,000 Anthony V. Frank Jr. et al to Mark Clutter, home on Etruria Street; $80,000 Park Place Realty LLC to Gina E. Dunlap and Erik B. Sullivan, two-family dwelling on Pennsylvania Avenue; $71,500 Leetonia Zachary and Alissa Lehn to Caleb B. and Katherine L. Crowl, home on Walnut Street; ...

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Municipal LISBON - In Columbiana County Municipal Court, Ryan Smith, 33, Fisher Avenue, East Liverpool, was fined $1,115 and sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 177 days suspended and credit for three days served in a driver intervention program, with $500 of the fine suspended, for OVI and left of center, with 40 hours community service ordered. His license was suspended for one year, with driving privileges granted. Jaime Anne Rickerd, 39, Ravine Street, East Liverpool, was fined $350 and sentenced to 14 days in jail, with credit for 14 days already served, leaving no time to serve ...

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Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a preliminary hearing was set Sept. 2 for Anthony J. Lopshansky, 42, Woodland Avenue, Columbiana, charged with fourth-degree felony domestic violence and third-degree felony strangulation. Bond was set at $20,000 cash or surety and he was ordered to have no contact with the victim or any firearms or weapons. He was accused of placing his hands around a woman’s throat and striking her in the face, causing her to fall back, then grabbing her by the throat a second time after an argument on Aug. 25 in Columbiana. A preliminary ...

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Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, cases against Meghan A. McElroy, 33, Maple Hill Road, Salineville, were bound over to the county grand jury for fourth-degree felonies of grand theft of a motor vehicle and disrupting public services and misdemeanors of criminal trespass and drug paraphernalia for allegedly running from a truck with a large amount of stolen AT&T wire from Spring Hill Cemetery and tools and also possessing and dropping a hypodermic syringe after fleeing from Spring Hill Cemetery, all on Aug. 14 in Wellsville. A charge of third-degree felony ...

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Common Pleas NEW CASES Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC vs. Sandy L. House, Stookesberry Road, Lisbon, et al.; mortgage foreclosure sought for Columbiana County property. Brandon Grieves, Beaver Fall, Pa., vs. Linda Haustman, Bell School Road, East Liverpool; damages sought for personal injury claim from June 2026 dog bite incident. Lake Tomahawk Property Owners Association, Inc., Pontiac Trail, Negley, vs. Linda L. McKenzie, also known as Linda L. Lower, Chippewa Trail, Negley, et al.; collection sought of alleged $17,793 for unpaid assessments and fees and foreclosure sought on ...