Staff report An Austintown native will speak in Akron on Thursday following a screening of a movie he produced. Ian Michaels, an Austintown Fitch High School graduate, is the producer of “Wayward,” about an 11-year-old girl who becomes enchanted with a charismatic female hitchhiker her ...

Big Chuck Schodowski made multiple generations laugh in northeastern Ohio. Schodowski, who died Sunday at age 90, was an engineer at WJW-TV in Cleveland when he started making on-camera appearances in the early 1960s on “Shock Theater,” hosted by Ghoulardi (Ernie Anderson). He then ...

WHAT: Cirque du Soleil — “OVO” WHEN: 3 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday WHERE: Covelli Centre, 229 E. Front St., Youngstown HOW MUCH: Tickets range from $52 to $127 and are available through Ticketmaster. YOUNGSTOWN — Last week I bought a can of wasp and hornet killer to take ...