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Common Pleas New Cases Kayla Johnson, West Egypt Road, Minerva, and Brian Barber, West Egypt Road, Minerva; dissolution sought. Michael Kulick, Dyke Road, Negley and Carolann Kulick, Cicero, N.Y.; dissolution sought. Docket Entries PNC Bank vs. Carl Buhn Jr.; judgment entry corrected, $11,113 judgment granted to plaintiff. Midfirst Bank vs. Samantha Frampton, et al.; mortgage foreclosure ordered for Ohio Avenue, Salem property. Capital One, N.A. vs. James Morehead; $15,591 judgment granted to plaintiff. Marriage Licenses Shane Logston, 29, New Cumberland, W.Va., Hancock ...

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Municipal Court Steven Cunningham, 34, Central Avenue, East Liverpool, was fined $150 and given a suspended 30-day jail term for drug paraphernalia. He was ordered to complete 20 hours community service. Cunningham possessed used syringes and a glass crack pipe while he was a passenger during a traffic stop on March 13 in East Liverpool. Charles McLaughlin, 28, New Cumberland, W.Va., was fined $200 for drug paraphernalia for possessing a burnt metal socket with chore boy inside used as a crack pipe during a traffic stop on Aug. 9, 2024 in East Liverpool. Ryan Pritt, 43, Lisbon ...

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Common Pleas New Cases Capital One, Columbus, vs. Karen McMillin, state Route 7, Rogers, et al.; collection sought of alleged $35,771 debt. Marie Keller, Miller Road, Leetonia, and Kenneth Keller, Miller Road, Leetonia; dissolution sought. Westlake Services, LLC, Los Angeles, Calif., vs. Vanessa Burnside, West Wilson Street, Salem; collection sought of alleged $10,014 debt. Village of Salineville, care of Regional Income Tax Agency, East Main Street, Salineville, vs. Anthony Gowin, McGavern Road, Salineville; collection sought of alleged income tax owed to Salineville for ...

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Municipal LISBON — In Columbiana County Municipal Court, a former promoter for the Fraternal Order of Police Quaker Lodge #88, Richard Csernik, 64, Youngstown, was fined $250 and given a suspended 30-day jail term for unauthorized use of property amended from theft for presenting the FOP with false records to receive a payment last year. He was ordered to complete 20 hours community service and to make restitution of $1,200 to the FOP Quaker Lodge #88 within 90 days. According to a Salem police affidavit, Csernik worked as a promoter for the FOP Quaker Lodge #88 for many years, but ...

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Court News LISBON — A woman accused of alleged assault and a charge for spitting at a doctor and police officer was ordered evaluated for competency to stand trial. A defense attorney for Jaime Rickerd, 37, Ravine Street, East Liverpool, filed a motion for a competency evaluation which was granted by Columbiana County Common Pleas Court Judge Megan Bickerton. Bickerton ordered Rickerd evaluated by the Forensic Psychiatric Center of Northeast Ohio. Charges of fourth-degree felony assault and harassment with a bodily substance, a fifth-degree felony, remain pending against Rickerd ...

Lisbon man gets at least 10 years in child porn case

LISBON — A Lisbon man accused of multiple felony counts related to his possession of nude images of children was sentenced to at least 10 years in prison. Matthew Spack, 38, state Route 172, appeared Friday in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court for sentencing before Judge Megan Bickerton, who ordered consecutive sentences for each count, bringing the total to 10 to 11 years in prison since two counts warranted indefinite sentences of two to three years each for pandering obscenity involving a minor or impaired person, a second-degree felony. Bickerton sentenced him to six months ...