An arrest warrant has been issued for a 16-year-old who escaped from the Juvenile Justice Center around midnight Monday after beating up a corrections officer. Wanted is Don-Tay D. ”Tweety” Johnson, 16, 217 E. Dewey, Youngstown, on charges of escape and assaulting a peace officer. Authorities believe he broke out of his prison cell, rushed [...]

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TTAPR on June 15th, 2011

While bullies are nothing new during the school years, the bullying Zach Drake said occurred on a Lakota School bus May 27 reached a whole new level in the area. “This is, for Wood County, unusual to have an actual fight break out,” Wood County Sheriff Mark Wasylyshyn said. The fight allegedly happened on the [...]

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TTAPR on May 26th, 2011

A robbery attempt turned violent when a 16-year-old Benedictine High School student was shot in the chest by a robber Monday morning.  Now Cleveland Police say two arrests have been made Sophomore Jackrell Russell was approached by the suspect who, according to a report in the ‘Cleveland Plain Dealer’, demanded the boy’s cell phone and school issued [...]

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TTAPR on May 26th, 2011

A 6-year-old boy brought a loaded gun to Gibbs Elementary School on Wednesday, a day after he and his siblings told school officials their dad was involved in a shooting. Capt. David Kurzinsky, who heads the police department’s patrol division, confirmed that Officer Scott Reese and Sgt. Kenneth Brown confiscated a loaded Ruger P95 9mm [...]

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TTAPR on April 1st, 2011

Five Chaney High School students, including two 18-year-old males, face riot charges after police say they were involved in a pair of fights at the building. The students also received 10-day school suspensions from the school district and face possible expulsion. Police say a fight involving about 15 people in the school’s main hallway, by [...]

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A social worker for Cuyahoga County Children and Family Services died five days after an attack by a juvenile client, but the coroner said there were no signs of trauma during a preliminary autopsy. Tashia Burch-York, 42, was attacked last Thursday in her office at the Jane Edna Hunter building, 3955 Euclid Ave., and she [...]

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TTAPR on January 6th, 2011

MARION, Ohio – Two young men and two juvenile males are accused of vandalizing vehicles overnight Thursday. Marion police began receiving calls on damaged vehicles on the city’s West Side overnight Thursday. Ptl. Ken Persinger located the suspect vehicle and conducted a traffic stop. Four males were arrested after an investigation. Marion police said the [...]

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According to a press release from the Toledo Police Department, two 14-year-old males and a 15-year-old were arrested and booked into the detention center Friday morning. The release said two of the males were booked for criminal conspiracy, while one was booked for fourth-degree assault. Toledo School District Superintendent Sharon Bower said the three students [...]

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CLEVELAND – Teachers and administrators confronting the issue of four bullied students who died by their own hands must get involved to end bullying, an attorney for grieving families said Monday. Some of the student deaths followed bullying that was “incessant, it was constant, and the teachers and the administrators for whatever reason took a [...]

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Two 11-year-old Glenwood Middle School students have been charged with assault after they fought with another boy, breaking his arm. The victim’s mother says her son was being bullied because he is a male cheerleader. It started out as teasing, said the boy’s mother, Kristy Wilson, but then it turned physical, eventually leading to her [...]

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