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Boy, 6, dies after being shot Monday afternoon in Youngstown

YOUNGSTOWN — A 6-year-old boy died after being found shot inside a home in the 500 block of Plum Street on the near West Side Monday afternoon. The Youngstown Police Department issued a press release Tuesday morning stating that police were called to the home at 4:09 p.m. for a shooting. When they arrived, they found the boy shot inside a bedroom and began life-saving measures until paramedics arrived. The child was transported to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the release states. Youngstown police detectives and its crime scene unit were ...

Wisconsin and Minnesota primaries next to feature progressive clash with Democratic establishment

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Progressive candidates for governor in Wisconsin and U.S. Senate in Minnesota are making their final pushes ahead of Tuesday’s election, increasing the pressure on a Democratic establishment that has spent the year on its heels. The primaries come a week after Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s divisive and costly U.S. Senate primary. El-Sayed’s victory has energized the left while stoking fears among Democratic Party leaders that the shift to the left, particularly in battleground states like Michigan and Wisconsin, will make ...

Getting their ducks in a row

STRUTHERS — The Struthers Rotary Club unleashed 1,500 rubber ducks Saturday at Yellow Creek Park for its 16th annual event. “Everybody can buy a duck for only $5,” said Ryan Goist, former Rotary Club president. “We drop a bunch of rubber ducks down here in Yellow Creek. The winner of ...

NAACP wants elections board to move to Cobbin building

YOUNGSTOWN — The president of the NAACP Youngstown/Mahoning County Branch wants the county board of elections to move to the W.J. Cobbin Office Tower on the city’s North Side, but the board’s director said the facility doesn’t meet its needs. In a Monday letter to the board, James Brown, the NAACP local president, wrote Cobbin Tower, where the organization is headquartered, “deserves serious consideration. Based on the information available, the facility appears to satisfy the board’s stated specifications while also offering substantial benefits to the citizens of Mahoning ...

Trump signs order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits. The order advocates separating the ...

Man pleads guilty to aggravated robbery and kidnapping

YOUNGSTOWN — James Blackwell, 26, pleaded guilty Monday to aggravated robbery with a gun specification and two counts of kidnapping in a Nov. 3, 2025, incident in Youngstown in which he was accused of walking up to a car and telling a woman he was going to kill her if she did not give him ...