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Penguin Kickoff offers taste of YSU Steubenville

STEUBENVILLE — Having access to classes at Youngstown State University Steubenville is important to students from the tri-state area. That includes Hayden Martin of Steubenville. A senior at YSU, Martin said being able to finish her education in her community is important. ...

Former grocery store building receives 1 proposal

YOUNGSTOWN — Potential Development, a PK-12 school system for students with autism, submitted the lone proposal to the city for the long-vacant former Bottom Dollar grocery store. Paul Garchar, Potential Development’s CEO, said the school system is crowded at its K-6 building and wants to use the former Bottom Dollar location on Glenwood Avenue for a K-2 or K-3 building. “We are looking for additional classroom space and this would take some pressure off the elementary school,” Garchar said. Asked why the school is interested in the former Bottom Dollar location, Garchar ...

Police probe shooting death of boy, 6

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 on Monday afternoon. The Youngstown Police Department issued a news release Tuesday morning stating that police were called to the home at 4:09 p.m. Monday for a ...

ICE officers plan to use electric-shock gloves

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals. ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction and de-escalation ...

Holocaust center in Youngstown rededicated

YOUNGSTOWN — Following extensive renovations, a rededication ceremony took place Tuesday morning for the Schwartz Holocaust and Antisemitism Resource Center at the Jewish Community Center. The center is a premier educational resource dedicated to Holocaust education, the study of ...

Nation and world at a glance for Aug. 12

Threat caused Trump’s odd exit from Air Force One WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump slipped away from Air Force One after a recent summit in Turkey because the Secret Service and military wanted him on a “different plane” due to a threat, he told reporters after a trip to Ohio on Tuesday. Trump’s comments confirmed a report that first appeared in The Washington Post on Monday saying that Trump stowed away in an airport catering container to slip into another plane while Air Force One was sent into the sky out of Turkey, essentially as a decoy, just in case Iran made ...