Tis the season to be jolly and go shopping however with COVID-19 positive cases going up and testing becoming scarce, it is leaving businesses that are fighting to keep their doors open because they are short staffed with employees that are sick to close down for a couple days to sanitize and regroup. Two Northeast […]
ASHTABULA TOWNSHIP, OH (WOIO) – A wanted fugitive is now dining on jail food after refusing to pay for his meal at a local restaurant. Christopher Foster made it clear to officers, as seen in body cam video from the Ashtabula County Sheriffs, that he had no intention of paying his $12 bill. Deputy: “You […]
ASHTABULA, Ohio — Nearly 800 new jobs are coming to Ashtabula County thanks to a new pig iron plant. The Environmental Protection Agency had its first public hearing earlier in December about the $474 million plant a South African company is looking to build. Ashtabula City Manager Jim Timonere said construction will bring in close […]
ASHTABULA COUNTY, OH (WOIO) – Three people are dead after a house fire in Ashtabula around 11 a.m. on Tuesday, July 24. According to the Astabula County Coroner, Mother Kelly Estep (36), Zander Wlotzko (3), and Frankie Jr Wlotzko (4), died in the house fire on Washington Avenue. The incident took place in a bedroom […]
ASHTABULA, Ohio– An Amber Alert was issued Tuesday afternoon for a missing 6-year-old girl. Ashtabula police said Brooklyn Vance was taken by her non-custodial grandmother, Connie Sue Nelson. She was found safe at about 3 p.m. Brooklyn was last seen at about 10 a.m. on Tuesday on Spencer Avenue in Ashtabula, police said. She was […]
ASHTABULA, Ohio — Authorities are investigating a police-involved shooting in Ashtabula. It happened early Friday at the 400 block of W. 38th Street. Police responded to a call of an intruder with a gun holding a female resident at gunpoint. Three officers responded and encountered two men involved in a struggle inside the home. One […]
ASHTABULA COUNTY, OH (WOIO) – Pennsylvania State Police say they took a 46-year-old Ashtabula man into custody late Thursday night in connection with the kidnapping and death of a 13-year-old girl. John Richard Bove was arrested Thursday night after police found the body of 13-year-old Kara Zdanczewski in a field in Saybrook Township, which is just […]
ASHTABULA, OH (WOIO) – A mother and son were killed in a triple shooting inside their Ashtabula home. The shooting happened at the family’s home on Norman Ave. around 2 p.m. Monday. The first victim, Alexis Mook Colon, 20, died at the scene. His mother, Lydia Colon, 43, was life-flighted to Metro, where she succumbed […]
ASHTABULA, Ohio – Police have been called out to a shooting with multiple victims in Ashtabula, they report. Police are not releasing many details about the shooting, including whether there are two or three victims, or whether anyone has died. READ MORE: NewsNet5.com Article Courtesy of WEWS NewsChannel 5 Picture Courtesy of WFTS-TV […]
ASHTABULA, Ohio – A food item that will make you lose your appetite? An Ashtabula barbecue restaurant will feature a burger special Sunday themed off of embattled Browns quarterback Brandon Weeden. Briquettes Smokehouse LLC, located at 1033 Bridge Street, will serve up “The Weeden Burger” for the game against the Patriots. Here’s how they […]
ASHTABULA COUNTY, OH (WOIO) – An Amber Alert has been issued out of Ashtabula County. Police say the suspect stabbed the child’s mother multiple times and is the non-custodial father. The suspect also has priors for domestic violence, resisting arrest, assault and drug abuse. They say he also has violent tendencies. The child was last […]