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• MAHONING COUNTY COMMISSIONERS will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday at the hearing room of the county courthouse basement for the board meeting and at 11 a.m. in the conference room of the administration building for the staff meeting. • CANFIELD COMMUNITY JEDD will meet at 3 p.m. today at Canfield city hall. • WESTERN RESERVE TRANSIT AUTHORITY Board of Trustees will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday at the board room, 604 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown. • GIRARD BOARD OF EDUCATION will meet at 5 p.m. Thursday at the high school media center. • LIBERTY TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES will meet at 8 a.m. ...

Devon Stanley case delayed by absence of medical records

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WARREN — The parties in the Devon Stanley felonious assault case met by Zoom on Tuesday afternoon with Special Prosecutor Dan Kasaris of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office saying the case is being held up by a lack of response from Mercy Health in providing medical records. Stanley, 53, of Liberty, a Liberty Township trustee and chief deputy clerk of the Trumbull County Clerk of Courts Office, is charged with second-degree-felony felonious assault. It involves an Oct. 23, 2025, incident involving a woman. Stanley was arrested at the Oct. 24 Niles McKinley-Girard football game at ...

Superintendent: Job’s not done for city schools

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YOUNGSTOWN — Earning a three-star rating of a possible five stars on the recently released state report card is a reason for the Youngstown City School District to celebrate, but not to rest on its academic laurels, a top official says. “The work is not done. We’re showing that we can do this work,” Superintendent Jeremy Batchelor said after the regular Youngstown Board of Education meeting Tuesday afternoon at Youngstown Rayen Early College High School. The district’s ranking was revealed after the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce released the report cards Sept. ...

Taylor Swift announces new song ‘Patient Zero,’ first since wedding

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NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift has announced a new song, “Patient Zero” — her first since her starry wedding this summer. It releases Friday. She made the announcement in true Swift fashion. On Tuesday morning, the pop powerhouse launched a cryptic countdown clock on her website, displayed atop a red curtain and due to end at 2 p.m. Eastern. Her dedicated fans, known as Swifties, quickly got to work attempting to decode whatever news was forthcoming, noting that her official Instagram bio was changed to read “And, baby, that’s sh0w business f0r y0u,” with each “o” ...

Trumbull commissioners considering annual vehicle purchasing program for sheriff

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WARREN — Trumbull commissioners are considering establishing an annual program allowing the sheriff office to purchase at least four patrol cars per year to replenish its aging vehicle force. Under the proposed program, the county will be able to purchase a minimum of four vehicles per year or one vehicle per quarter. Sheriff Michael Wilson told the commissioners there is a critical need to obtain new vehicles because some of the vehicles in the fleet have more than 200,000 miles on them. “We have 12 vehicles with more than 150,000 miles, 10 with more than 200,000, with five of ...

PUCO staff’s attorney wants requested changes to SOBE rate hike dropped

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An attorney for the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio’s staff argued that requests for an end date for the major emergency rate hikes approved by the commission for SOBE Thermal Energy Systems LLC and the inclusion of language that the increases are “subject to refund” aren’t valid. The two requests made by the city of Youngstown and the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel in a Sept. 14 joint filing should be rejected by the PUCO “because they are outside the scope of the commission’s rehearing entry,” wrote Julian Johnson, an Ohio assistant attorney general with ...