Four teens arrested
in house break-in
WARREN - Officers arrested four people, one of whom was a teen, breaking into a vacant home at 586 Woodbine Ave. S.E., according to a police report.
Charged with breaking and entering about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday were Maria Graham, 19, of Burton Street S.E.; Andrea Person, 19, South Feederle Avenue S.E.; Bennie Robinson, 19, Baker Avenue S.W.; and an unnamed juvenile, who was released to his mother. The three adults were booked into Trumbull County Jail.
Advertising business
sues over billboard veto
WARREN - A Girard advertising business has filed a lawsuit against the Howland Township Board of Zoning Appeals, challenging a recent decision that prevents the company from erecting a new billboard.
Lamar Advertising, 1063 Trumbull Ave., filed the lawsuit Tuesday, claiming the Nov. 1 decision is ''unconstitutional, illegal, arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable.''
The board was affirming an earlier decision by the zoning inspector.
Lamar owns a billboard on the north side of East Market Street, west of the intersection with Rosegarden Drive, and sought to erect or change the sign to a digital-electronic billboard, which the township says is against code that prohibits flashing or intermittent lights.
Man sent to prison
for burglaries
WARREN - A 28-year-old Leavittsburg man was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to a series of burglary charges.
Joshua Harris of Barclay Messerly Road apologized to Judge W. Wyatt McKay after admitting to charges of attempted burglary, grand theft and three counts of burglary, including one that carried a firearm specification. The theft charge was for stealing a shotgun out of one home.
Trumbull County sheriff's deputies charged Harris, who was arrested May 30, with recent burglaries in Howland, Mecca, Bloomfield and Bristol townships.
Weathersfield building to close
for scheduled outage
WEATHERSFIELD - The township's administration building, 1451 Prospect St., is scheduled to be closed on Friday due to a scheduled power outage at the complex. The building will reopen Monday.
West Farmington to
meet on sewer project
WEST FARMINGTON - West Farmington Village Council will hold a special meeting at 5 p.m. today at the village hall to review an application for the village sewer project.
Tribune Chronicle editors
heading to Weathersfield
WEATHERSFIELD - The next stop in a yearlong series of gatherings to allow the public to meet the editors of the Tribune Chronicle is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Weathersfield Administration Building, 1451 Prospect St.
Readers from all communities are invited to attend and ask questions and make suggestions.
Scheduled to attend are Tribune Chronicle publisher Charles Jarvis; general manager Len Blose; editor Frank Robinson; managing editor Guy Coviello; sports editor Dana Sulonen; business editor Brenda Linert; features editor Mary Beth Wyko; humor columnist and assistant metro editor Burton Cole; entertainment writer Andy Gray; Browns beat reporter Mike McLain; chief photographer R. Michael Semple; and community news reporter Bob Coupland.