Rome News

The next time you are driving down the road and pass a stranded motorist, only to drive a short distance farther and pass an officer of the law, with lights flashing, while they write yet another traffic citation, ask yourself: Protecting our citizens or another 'revenue source,' or 'another citizen losing their rights'? I just concluded a ...

Maureen Dewing was walking her golden retriever Shamrock in the Anderson Dog Park when she began to wonder: What is that cement ruin that looks like scenery from Jurassic Park? About 100 miles away in Columbus, Carlo LoParo was working in an Ohio think tank a few months ago when he began thinking about something that had nothing to do with health ...

Divers from six fire departments searched a pond off Dorman Road late Sunday morning after the owner of the property discovered a crashed gate and vehicle tire tracks terminating in the 30-foot-deep water.

Many of Ashtabula County's covered bridges are well documented, making a list of 48 legacy bridges, including the 12 that have survived.

"Lord hear our prayer" was the theme of Orwell's National Day of Prayer celebration Thursday in Chaffee Park.

BILL WEST / Star Beacon BALL CAPS and shirts with the official Wine and Walleye Festival logo are now available for consumers.

He was sentenced to six months in the Ashtabula City Jail and must complete six months of unsupervised probation.

A massive brush fire kept 13 fire departments from Ashtabula and Trumbull counties busy for about six hours Sunday.

A Thompson Township woman died Sunday afternoon when she was thrown from the motorcycle she was riding in a three-vehicle crash on Route 166, the Ohio State Highway Patrol reports.

The soon to be completed Union-Rome Waste Water Treatment Plant and an overlooked water well in Coal Grove received shots in the arm yesterday as they were selected by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to receive nearly $5.4 million in federal stimulus money earmarked to upgrade Ohio's water and sewer systems.

NORTH ROYALTON BAD CONDUCT:Police arrived around 5:20 p.m. April 9 at a North Akins Road home for a report of a dispute between a man and a woman.

His bond was set at $25,000. * Shawn Snyder, 20, 522 State St., Conneaut, pleaded not guilty March 13 to the charge of grand theft, a fourth-degree felony.

A brush fire scorched nearly 100 acres of a corn field before it was doused by firefighters from nine departments Monday afternoon.

THE CALLENDAR Road bridge over Rock Creek survived until the 1960s, when it was burned to accommodate construction of the Roaming Rock Shores community lake.

Landon Spencer is counting down the days to his homecoming from the hospital like most 3-year-olds count down the days until Christmas.

The weather was different but the atmosphere still festive as more than 25 people prepared to jump into the cold waters of Roaming Rock Lake.

One of the children burned in a flash fire has been treated and released from the hospital, while her 3-year-old brother and father are badly burned and still hospitalized, family members confirmed Monday.

Two small children and an adult were injured Sunday afternoon after a small bonfire ignited a plastic gasoline can, causing a flash fire, Rome Township Fire Chief Ed Koziol said.

3 for his sentencing hearing on the previous convictions of complicity to theft and three counts of receiving stolen property, all fourth-degree felonies.

CARL E. FEATHER / Star Beacon ROBERT BENSON stands in front of the Graham Road Covered Bridge, which, thanks to his donation of land, was saved from destruction in 1971.