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Salem man sentenced for rapes

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Staff report YOUNGSTOWN — Nikolas Moore, 31, of Lundy Avenue in Salem, was sentenced to 10 to 12.5 years in prison Friday after pleading guilty earlier to two counts of rape. He gets credit for 146 days spent in the Mahoning County jail awaiting trial. Mahoning County Common Pleas Court ...

Sisters get prison for shooting

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YOUNGSTOWN — Twins Lisa D. Springs and Andrea H. Springs, 21, were sentenced to prison for their role in a March 2024 shooting on Tyrell Avenue on the West Side in which Andrea H. Springs fired a gun at a car containing six people, four of whom were children. Lisa D. Springs was sentenced ...

Robotics teams prepare for last weekend of regionals

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FIRST Robotics teams from high schools in Mahoning and Trumbull counties will compete this weekend in one of the last regional competitions that will determine what teams are advancing to nationals. Teams from Warren G. Harding, Austintown Fitch, Canfield, Howland and Ursuline high schools ...

City seeks dismissal of counterclaims

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YOUNGSTOWN — With new legal counsel hired, Youngstown is seeking the dismissal of counterclaims to its $834,608 civil lawsuit filed by developer Dominic Marchionda and two of its companies over contentions that the city was the victim of a “calculated scheme” to defraud it. The city ...

Time runs out for train settlement bond appeal

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EAST PALESTINE — The proverbial clock has struck midnight on five residents appealing last year’s $600 million settlement between Norfolk Southern and members of the public who resided within 20 miles of the 2023 train derailment and chemical spill, as a motion to allow more time to obtain ...

Judge agrees to allow man to be transferred back into the community

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YOUNGSTOWN — At the end of a 40-minute hearing Tuesday, Caleb West, 42, hugged a staff member when he learned he would be transferred from Heartland Behavioral Healthcare to Horizon House, a community-based facility in Youngstown. He was pleased because after more than seven years mostly ...