Hubbard
CRIME & SAFETY
Hubbard driver jailed, charged with aggravated vehicular homicide
The driver charged in connection with a deadly one-car crash in Liberty is out of the hospital and now in jail. Twenty-five-year-old Dylan Vranchich of Hubbard was transferred to the Trumbull County jail on Sunday, nearly three days after he was taken to a hospital for treatment of injuries he received when his car struck a utility pole and caught fire along Colonial Drive in Liberty Township.
VIDEO: Youngstown Police escort buses of schoolchildren for fishing trip
Some students at Paul C. Bunn Elementary School will be spending the day learning to fish with officers from the Youngstown Police Department. This trip is part of the Cops and Kids Foundation's Cops and Bobbers initiative, which not only helps children learn how to fish, but connects them with their local police department as well.
Lightning, fire hinder sobriety checkpoints in Youngstown
Ambitious plans by the Mahoning County OVI Task Force to hold two sobriety checkpoints in Youngstown late Friday were dashed by lightning and fire. The Task Force announced late Friday that it planned to conduct a Westside checkpoint from 11 p.m. until midnight on Mahoning Avenue, and a second Southside checkpoint from 12:30 a.m. to 3 a.m. Saturday on Playhouse Lane.
Two injured during off-road crash in Niles woods
Two people were hospitalized after an off-road vehicle crash in Niles. Dispatchers were told that two females were thrown from an all-terrain vehicle Sunday afternoon while riding on property that is popular with off-road vehicles known as Honda Hills. The victims were brought out of the woods to the 800...
SUV flips over in Youngstown crash, 1 hurt
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) Police are investigating after an SUV flipped over about 10:30 a.m. Monday on Oakwood Avenue on the West Side. The SUV was driving east on Oakwood Avenue at North Glenellen Avenue when another vehicle going north on North Glennellen approached the stop sign at Oakwood Avenue. Police said it is unclear what happened next, but the SUV flipped onto its roof.
Man taken to hospital after Youngstown crash
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — A man is being taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center following a two-vehicle crash at about 1:10 p.m. on Friday at Glenwood Avenue and Garfield Street. Police said that the man was the driver of a car that was going south on Glenwood Avenue when...
Warren man accused of dousing woman with lighter fluid, trying to set her on fire
A Warren man spent part of the weekend in jail after being accused of trying to set a woman on fire. A 42-year-old woman told police that she called Cornell Evans to help her repair a door at her Mazda Avenue home on Sunday. The woman said she called the...
3 stabbings, one assault reported this week at Northeast Ohio Correctional Center
Three stabbings and one assault have been reported this week at Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, 2240 Hubbard Road in Youngstown. Staff informed Youngstown police that an alteration occurred at the private prison about 1 p.m. on May 15. According to the report, an inmate in custody by the U.S. Marshal’s...
Truck fire closes I-80 ramp in Girard
Crews are working to reopen an Interstate-80 exit ramp closed by a truck fire in Girard. The fire was reported in a tractor-trailer just after 3:30 a.m. on the ramp from eastbound I-80 to State Street. Smoke could be seen pouring from the open doors of the trailer, now disconnected...
Crews battle vacant house fire overnight in Youngstown
Overnight, fire crews in Youngstown took on a house fire on the city's south side. It happened just after midnight on Saturday at a home on West Glenaven Avenue. Firefighters spent about an hour getting the fire under control, while also spraying a neighboring home to keep it from spreading.
Mahoning Valley law agencies get $195K in drug enforcement grants
Law enforcement agencies across the Mahoning Valley have gotten some financial help in its efforts to combat drug trafficking. Sheriff's offices in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull got a combined $195,000 in RecoveryOhio grants. Broken down, Columbiana got $135,000, Trumbull got $50,000 while Mahoning got $10,000. This money will be used...
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