YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County commissioners will have $46.7 million to spend in the county’s general fund in 2025, a 7.4% increase from the 2024 appropriation of $44.1 million. It means there will be room for some cost increases for health care and other inflationary increases when the ...

LIBERTY — Trustees approved resolutions Tuesday to kick-start improvements next year to several township roads. The measures certify the township has the money to pay the necessary local shares for participating in the Ohio Public Works Commission’s State Capital Improvement and Local ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office is moving forward with prosecuting a Boardman man on a charge of felonious assault after a jury deadlocked on that charge at the end of his trial in September. A jury in Common Pleas Court found Damian Cessna, 27, guilty of felony ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The tragic 2022 Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shootings that killed 17 children and two adults was a catalyst for law enforcement to think about active shooter situations differently. “A few years ago when Uvalde happened, we realized we needed to upgrade our training,” ...

CANFIELD TOWNSHIP — The Canfield Rotary hopes trustees will play Santa Claus by helping to fund its annual Lighting of the Green event. At Tuesday’s trustees meeting, Canfield Rotarian Anthony Nacarato, who chairs the lighting event, asked for some financial assistance with this year’s ...

YOUNGSTOWN — In its ongoing legal battle with the federal government over agreed-upon wastewater improvement work, Youngstown is proposing a smaller and presumably less expensive alternative project. As part of a 2014 consent decree with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the ...