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LEGAL NOTICE

LERNER, SAMPSON, & ROTHFUSS

Attorneys At Law

120 East Fourth Street, 8th Floor

P.O. Box 5480

Cincinnati, Ohio 45201-5480

Telephone: 1-513-241-3100

IN THE COURT OF

COMMON PLEAS,

MAHONING COUNTY, OHIO

120 Market Street

Youngstown, Ohio 44503-1751

Case No. 07CV 4199

Judge James C. Evans

NOTICE IN SUIT FOR

FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR FIRST FRANKLIN MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-FF12, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES, 2006-FF12, C/O HOME LOAN SERVICES, INC.

PLAINTIFF,

VS.

JOSEPH H. HOPKINS, JR., ET AL.,

DEFENDANTS.

Joseph H. Hopkins, Jr., whose last known address is 2581 West Liberty Street, Girard, Ohio 44420, and the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, executors, administrators, spouses and assigns and the unknown guardians of minor and/or incompetent heirs of Joseph H. Hopkins, Jr., all of whose residences are unknown and cannot by reasonable diligence be ascertained, will take notice that on the 7th day of November, 2007, U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-FF12, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series, 2006-FF12, c/o Home Loan Services, Inc. filed its Complaint in the Common Pleas Court of Mahoning County Ohio in Case No. 07CV 4199 on the docket of the Court, and the object and demand for relief of which pleading is to foreclose the lien of plaintiff's mortgage recorded upon the following described real estate, to wit:

PROPERTY LOCATED AT: 1495 Bexley Drive, Youngstown, OH 44515 and being more particularly described in plaintiff's mortgage recorded in Mortgage Book 5622, Page 2261, of this County Recorder's Office.

PERMANENT PARCEL NO. 48-076-0-047.00

All of the above named defendants are required to answer within twenty-eight (28) days after last publication, which shall be published once a week for six consecutive weeks, said answer day being the 16th day of May, 2008, or they might be denied a hearing in this case.

LERNER, SAMPSON & ROTHFUSS,

Attorneys for Plaintiff.

Mar 14,21,28; Apr 4,11,18, 2008  08-00425