YOUNGSTOWN — For the third straight year, Youngstown received a clean state audit with no findings for recovery or adjustment. “A third year in a row with a clean audit is a good indicator of our fiscal responsibility,” city Finance Director Kyle Miasek said. The latest audit, ...

Staff report Eight agencies in Mahoning County will receive more than $2.8 million in federal funding to fight opioid use and help prevent overdose deaths while Trumbull County is receiving $482,943 for those efforts. The funding, announced Monday, comes from the federal Substance Abuse and ...

CANFIELD — A memorial service Tuesday at Fair Park paid tribute to police canine Rocky, who died Nov. 5 after a battle over liver cancer. More than two dozen canine units from Trumbull, Mahoning, and Columbiana counties and the Ohio State Highway Patrol joined a caravan from the Canfield ...

LIBERTY — The owner of a house neighboring a behavioral care hospital expressed frustration at Tuesday’s trustees meeting over trespassing escapees. Joe Pinti, whose home abuts Belmont Pines — a 51,580-square-foot facility that evaluates, stabilizes and treats children 5-18 who are ...

BOARDMAN — A man has been charged for shooting his girlfriend’s prowling ex-boyfriend while the ex-boyfriend took a plea deal last week for damaging property at the home before being shot. Nathan Fair, 41, of Austintown, pleaded guilty Thursday to attempted criminal damaging, a ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Leonard L. Sykes, 51, went on trial Tuesday on three counts of rape that could result in a life prison sentence if convicted. Sykes agreed to have his case heard by Judge Anthony Donofrio of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court without a jury. Caitlyn Andrews, county assistant ...