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Robin Lees, Youngstown’s police chief for the past seven years, was fired by Mayor Jamael Tito Brown because of differences about the department’s direction. YOUNGSTOWN — Mayor Jamael Tito Brown fired Robin Lees, police chief for the past seven years, because of differing opinions about the department’s direction. Lees said his last day will be Jan. 15. He said Thursday that Brown “was looking for a different approach. He’s looking for a change in direction is the best way I could describe it.” Lees added Brown “knows what I bring to the table, and he wants to go in a d...

YOUNGSTOWN — Mayor Jamael Tito Brown has fired Robin Lees as police chief, effective Jan. 15. Lees said he recently spoke to Brown, who said he wanted to go in a different direction at the police department. “He was looking for a different approach,” Lees said. “He’s looking for a change in direction is the best way I could describe it.” Lees said he planned to leave as chief at the end of the year before his ouster. Lees joined the city force in December 1978, and rose to lieutenant before retiring in early 2011. Shortly after John A. McNally was elected mayor, he asked Lees to r...

U.S. Marshals in northern Ohio close in on milestone as task force nears 50,000 arrests of fugitives Updated Jan 02, 2021; Posted Jan 02, 2021 Members of a U.S. Marshals Service task force lead Robert Shelton to a patrol car following his arrest in February. The task force is approaching a law-enforcement milestone: It has made nearly 50,000 arrests of fugitives. [U.S. Marshals photo] Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio – They hid from their pasts beneath dilapidated porches and atop thin rooftops of crumbling homes. One even squeezed into a laundry dryer. Some moved away and changed their nam...

Through pandemic, floods and protests, these Michiganders helped all of us weather 2020 Updated on Dec 30, 2020; Published on Dec 28, 2020 20 Michiganders who stepped up in 2020 are pictured in this composite image. Twitter Share A pandemic. A 500-year flood. A summer of clashes between activists and police. In a year that turned much of what we know about the world on its head, everyday Michiganders stepped up and navigated crisis after crisis. Some were motivated by keeping people safe. Some were nudged into new roles, or saw their current roles take on more meaning. Some challenged conve...

Last modified on Thu 17 Dec 2020 03.56 EST Rosalind Evans was one of at least three residents of Barnard Castle who claimed to have seen Dominic Cummings visit the town at the height of the first lockdown, and she is still fuming about it. “There’s no way the passage of time should make any difference to the enormity of what he did,” she says. Cummings admitted a family trip to the town on 12 April, his wife’s birthday, after the Guardian and the Daily Mirror had revealed he made the journey, as well as fleeing his London home for Durham with suspected Covid.