YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Board of Education has unanimously approved a three-year contract, effective in January, for Michael A. Rock to be the district’s next treasurer. “As someone once said, ‘There’s no place like home,’” Rock said after Tuesday’s regular board meeting at ...

TOKYO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump told new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi today that they will have “a fantastic relationship.” At the outset of Trump’s meeting with Takaichi in Tokyo, he said, “I have always had a great love of Japan and a great respect of Japan, ...

AUSTINTOWN — A year removed from its defeat, the police levy is back on the ballot next week, with a couple of notable changes. Austintown trustees and police will ask voters to approve a 2.22-mill additional levy that will generate $2 million per year to support police operations in the ...

By DAVID SKOLNICK Staff writer YOUNGSTOWN — An attorney for Youngstown asked the 7th District Court of Appeals to overturn a lower court’s decision that denied a city-requested dismissal of a lawsuit filed by the final tenant at the 20 Federal Place downtown building on the grounds of ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he has ordered the army to immediately carry out "powerful strikes" in Gaza, and Hamas responded by saying it would delay handing over the body of a hostage, putting new pressure on the tenuous U.S.-brokered ...

PARIS (AP) — Two suspects were arrested in connection with the theft of crown jewels from Paris’ Louvre museum, justice and police officials said Sunday, a week after the heist that stunned the world and sparked a massive manhunt. The Paris prosecutor said that investigators made arrests ...