YOUNGSTOWN — City Council will consider ratifying contracts Wednesday with its water department and emergency police dispatchers unions that include large raises for this year — to put the employees in line with what other unions are receiving in 2026. The 78 members of the water ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man facing the death penalty by nitrogen gas was spared Thursday night as the U.S. Supreme Court refused to set aside a lower-court ruling that found the method is unconstitutionally cruel, issuing a brief order that came well after the hour originally planned ...

WARREN — The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation has been requested by the Warren Police Department to investigate an officer-involved shooting early Thursday in the 1500 block of Longfellow Court NE. Dominic Binkley, press secretary with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office BCI, said ...

El Nino arrives; scientists fear it will be big, bad and very costly WASHINGTON — U.S. meteorologists say an El Nino has formed. That’s the natural warming of parts of the Pacific that changes weather around the globe. It is likely to a major factor in extreme and deadly weather ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown police officers and a highway patrol trooper arrested two juveniles Wednesday night at Glenwood and Indianola avenues in a stolen car that was involved hours earlier in an armed robbery/car -jacking in Pennsylvania. One report stated that the carjacking took place in ...

PITTSBURGH — Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani hit his 13th homer of the season before leaving the game due to left knee inflammation and Los Angeles beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-6 on Thursday night. The reigning NL MVP hit a solo homer in the third inning. He also had a single and walked ...