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djohnson@mojonews.com LISBON — A Common Pleas Court jury was selected on Tuesday for Austin Powell, a wheelchair-bound East Liverpool area man charged with rape and two counts of gross sexual imposition involving two small children. During opening arguments, Assistant County Prosecutor Tammie Riley Jones said Powell, now 29, of East Liverpool Road, is accused of sexually assaulting the girls when they were between the ages of 6 and 9 years old. There are four years in difference between the girls, so the assaults allegedly occurred over several years beginning in 2009 and continuing through...

newsroom@reviewonline.com LISBON — An East Liverpool woman who pleaded to an obstructing justice charge for her role in assisting Anthony R. Wagoner when he escaped from the county jail in June of 2019 was sentenced to 45 days in the county jail on Friday. Sonya Shasteen, 44, Cadmus Street, East Liverpool, told Common Pleas Court Judge Megan Bickerton she was the one who had put Wagoner in jail after a six and a half year relationship, which included him destroying her house and her vehicle. She further claimed she was at the store when Wagoner was apprehended and had no idea he had come ba...

djohnson@mojonews.com Morning Journal/Deanne Johnson David M. Shafer walks into the courtroom of Common Pleas Court Judge Megan Bickerton for sentencing in the 2018 death of his father, Delbert Shafer. He was followed through the door by a sheriff’s office detective, Sgt. Jeff Haugh, one of the investigators in the case. LISBON — David M. Shafer was sentenced to 14 years in prison in Common Pleas Court Friday on charges related to the death of his father, Delbert Shafer, early in 2018. Shafer, 51, state Route 558, Leetonia, told Judge Megan Bickerton, “My father Delbert was an aweso...

newsroom@reviewonline.com LISBON — David M. Shafer was sentenced to 14 years in prison in Common Pleas Court Friday on charges related to the death of his father, Delbert Shafer, early in 2018. Shafer, 51, state Route 558, Leetonia, told Judge Megan Bickerton, “My father Delbert was an awesome person. He had a wicked sense of humor. He was super smart. He loved to hunt. He loved to fish. He loved just being outside. Everything he was is who I am today. I never loved anyone more or anything more than I loved my father.” Shafer claimed he feels his father’s pain and the pain of losing ...