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Canfield seeks $2M FEMA grant to ease flooding

CANFIELD TOWNSHIP — Trustees voted Tuesday to seek a $2 million Federal Emergency Management Agency grant to deal with flooding around the Pebble Beach area. The grant application deadline is Friday, so Township Administrator Keith Rogers hung around after the meeting to finish up the ...

Youngstown Foundation hands out nearly $1 million in grants

Staff report YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Foundation has announced $983,250 in grants to 19 local organizations, including $200,000 for the Youngstown YMCA to support free memberships for Youngstown youth and kitchen improvements at the downtown branch. “This funding will enable us to ...

2nd suspect apprehended in killing in Youngstown

YOUNGSTOWN — On Wednesday, the same day Terry Hopkins, 22, was taken into custody on a charge of complicity to murder in the Jan. 24 killing of Resean Graham, 42, on Griselda Avenue, his co-defendant, Kenneth Carter, 34, was arraigned in Youngstown Municipal Court. A Youngstown police ...

Trumbull health officials issue flu alert

WARREN — The Trumbull County Combined Health District and the Warren City Health District are alerting residents of potential higher transmission levels of influenza A and B in the community. A recent report from the Ohio Department of Health Bureau of Environmental Health and Radiation ...

Woman charged after 2nd raid at Youngstown massage parlor

YOUNGSTOWN — Jingmei Feng, 54, was arraigned Wednesday in Youngstown Municipal Court on a felony charge of practicing medicine without a license and a misdemeanor charge of soliciting sexual activity for hire following her arrest during a raid Tuesday at a business in the 1700 block of ...

Options explored to improve downtown parking

YOUNGSTOWN — The situation with parking in downtown Youngstown is as one city official describes it: “a little bit of a free-for-all.” That’s because the city ended its contract with ABM Parking and removed all of its meters in June with an eventual plan — which still hasn’t ...