YOUNGSTOWN — Visiting Judge Mark Wiest spent about 40 minutes Wednesday listening to arguments from attorney Martin Desmond, Mahoning County Prosecutor Gina DeGenova and an attorney for DeGenova before deciding to dismiss the petition Desmond filed asking for a special prosecutor to be ...

By ED RUNYAN Staff writer YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County commissioners could vote at today’s meeting to take ownership of a building on Patriot Drive in Austintown purchased by the Western Reserve Port Authority to provide space for the county building inspection department, county ...

YOUNGSTOWN — City council approved a second one-year moratorium on a process a downtown business wants to use to convert rubber tire chips into synthetic gas, agreed to spend $4.5 million in American Rescue Plan funds, but it failed to pass legislation to give 10% bonuses to city police ...

YOUNGSTOWN — A 14-year-old student at East High School was taken to the Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center Tuesday after school officials reportedly found a loaded gun in his book bag. The boy was arraigned Wednesday in Mahoning County Juvenile Court on charges of carrying a ...

B YOUNGSTOWN — State Rep. Lauren McNally, D-Youngstown, testified Wednesday before the Ohio House’s primary and secondary education committee on a bill she sponsored that would end state takeovers of school districts. House Bill 387 also would bring an end to the state’s demands that ...

YOUNGSTOWN — What happens when you marry art and legally manufactured cannabis? You get colorful and black-and-white pieces from people such as Cory Wright and Elisha Watts. “I like black-and-gray realism, and also a little of everything to present,” Wright, 33, of Warren, ...