
This undated photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation ...
This undated photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Kenneth Smith. The 45-year-old Smith is scheduled to die July 19 for killing Lewis and Ruth Ray in their ...

So you see it on HGTV every week and you ...
So you see it on HGTV every week and you think you can do it. Preparing rooms for staging in a house, such as this dining room, can help determine if a house shows well. ...

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, makes a point during a ...
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, makes a point during a press conference as he discusses the Republican attempt to privatize Social Security and Medicare with senior citizens. He spoke Wednesday at the Senior Independence Senior ...

Chaney High School senior Dasia Square practices walking across the ...
Chaney High School senior Dasia Square practices walking across the stage at Stambaugh Auditorium in Youngstown. Commencement practice was Wednesday afternoon; today is the real thing for Square and her classmates.

Frederick D. Johnson is led from the courtroom after Judge ...
Frederick D. Johnson is led from the courtroom after Judge Peter Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court sentenced Johnson to 32 years in prison for being a “major drug offender.”

Chaney High School’s graduating seniors practice the procession into Stambaugh ...
Chaney High School’s graduating seniors practice the procession into Stambaugh Auditorium, where they will receive their diplomas today.

Melissa Long, former Cortland mayor and a board member of ...
Melissa Long, former Cortland mayor and a board member of the Ohio Alliance for Retired Americans, said the issue is can senior citizens continue to have medical care that they can afford.

FILE - In this May 13, 2011 file photo, an ...
FILE - In this May 13, 2011 file photo, an employee of Toyota Motor Corp. cleans the "Prius a," or "Prius alpha," a revamp of its popular gas-electric hybrid, during its launch in Tokyo. Toyota ...

Maplewood cross country coach Ted Rupe, right, will coach the ...
Maplewood cross country coach Ted Rupe, right, will coach the Rockets for the last time at this weekend’s state track meet in Columbus. Ted Rupe is retiring after 32 years during which time he took ...

Springfield’s Josh Horn watches as shortstop Cody Pitzo comes up ...
Springfield’s Josh Horn watches as shortstop Cody Pitzo comes up with a diving catch during the Division IV baseball final against Columbiana. The Tigers are a game away from from a state fi nal berth.

Miles Dunlap of Mcdonald wins the boys 100 Meter competition ...
Miles Dunlap of Mcdonald wins the boys 100 Meter competition at the ITCL Tier 2 track meet held at Western Reserve High School.

Michael Fassbender potrays Erik Lehnsherr, who has the power to ...
Michael Fassbender potrays Erik Lehnsherr, who has the power to control magnetism, in 'X-Men: First Class.'

Flowers bloom in the courtyard garden at Volney Rogers Middle ...
Flowers bloom in the courtyard garden at Volney Rogers Middle School on Youngstown’s West Side. Students planted the garden to memorialize Volney Rogers, who founded Mill Creek Park.

Volney Rogers sixth grader Jazmin Schwab, 13, identifies different plants ...
Volney Rogers sixth grader Jazmin Schwab, 13, identifies different plants in a garden planted in the middle school’s courtyard to memorialize the school’s namesake.

Volney Rogers Middle School students recently finished a garden memorializing ...
Volney Rogers Middle School students recently finished a garden memorializing Rogers, for whom their school is named and the founder of Mill Creek Park. Benches bearing his name are part of the feature.

Haley McAllister, seen above reaching for a throw, and her ...
Haley McAllister, seen above reaching for a throw, and her teammates on the undefeated 2011 Champion softball team are trying to do what the 2006 team could not: leave the state tournament with a championship ...

RAMI DAUD | THE VINDICATOR.Members of the Youngstown Media interview ...
RAMI DAUD | THE VINDICATOR.Members of the Youngstown Media interview Maurice Clarett before a presentation at the Victory Christian Center.

Stager Mark Miklosovich stands in the Wynnewood home that he ...
Stager Mark Miklosovich stands in the Wynnewood home that he and his partner, Anna Powers, worked on. The two "suggest things," Powers said - "for instance, adding a piece of furniture." (Akira Suwa/Philadelphia Inquirer/MCT)

Dealership deliverance: Jim Contant, left, and Jim Lawrence, of First ...
Dealership deliverance: Jim Contant, left, and Jim Lawrence, of First Federated Church of North Jackson, unload the first packages of food delivered by Spitzer Chevrolet from Second Harvest Food Bank. More than 1,000 pounds of ...

Pattern with a purpose: Cecilia Cooper, center, explains the history ...
Pattern with a purpose: Cecilia Cooper, center, explains the history of the British Ironstone tea-leaf pattern dinnerware on display at the Hubbard Historical Society’s McBride House, at 27 Hager St., to members of the Coitsville-Campbell ...

Science comes naturally to him: Brennan Bizon holds two certificates ...
Science comes naturally to him: Brennan Bizon holds two certificates he received from The Ohio Academy of Science for Superior ratings he earned for his science project, “Which Ball Bounces Higher?” Brennan, a seventh-grader at ...