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YSU football player arraigned on aggravated burglary charge

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YOUNGSTOWN — Sebastian Espinoza, a football player at Youngstown State University, was arraigned in Youngstown Municipal Court Friday on charges of aggravated burglary and two counts of misdemeanor assault in a Feb. 22 incident in the University Edge apartments adjacent to YSU in which he ...

Attorneys seek new DNA testing in 1997 homicide

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YOUNGSTOWN — The Ohio Innocence Project at the University of Cincinnati College of Law has asked Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to grant access to evidence in the criminal case of Scott A. Group, 60, who was sentenced to death in 1999 for the 1997 killing of a Youngstown bar owner. The ...

Grant supports Choffin driving school

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YOUNGSTOWN — Some students in the Youngstown school district will find it easier — and less expensive — to obtain their driver’s license, and the opportunity could soon be available district-wide. Thanks to a state grant, students at Choffin Career & Technical Center have been ...

Some see Trump backing Ramaswamy as way to avoid nasty primary

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COLUMBUS — The sun hadn’t set on Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s gubernatorial campaign launch earlier this week before President Donald Trump posted his endorsement of the Cincinnati-born biotech entrepreneur and former Department of Government Efficiency co-chair. Trump lauded the ...

Ex-Ohio House member to run for attorney general

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Democrat Elliot Forhan, a former one-term state representative reprimanded and stripped of his committee assignments by his own party’s Ohio House leader, is running for attorney general in 2026. “I’m looking forward to talking to voters on the campaign trail about issues that matter to ...

Chamber bestows annual awards

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POLAND — Everyone knows that fireworks explosions result in radiant pyrotechnics and colors that fan out in the sky — a motion you could say also describes the business model Ron Zoldan intends to continue to spread. “I’m grateful I had two parents with two values — family and giving ...