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Something to crow about: 2025 fair attendance soars

CANFIELD — Less than 24 hours might have passed since the 179th Canfield Fair’s six days of merriment wrapped up for the year, but George Roman still had time to reflect on its successes. Roman, the fair’s director, was back at the fairgrounds Tuesday as its maintenance crews, food ...

Ursuline football players accused of assault

YOUNGSTOWN — Multiple Ursuline High School officials and students have been named as defendants in a federal lawsuit. The suit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio by the parents of a student, alleges that the boy was physically and sexually ...

3 decertified candidates get spots on Nov. ballot

YOUNGSTOWN — Nine potential candidates asked the Mahoning County Board of Elections to reconsider decisions to not certify them with three of them put on the Nov. 4 ballot after enough valid signatures were found on their nominating petitions. The board had nine reconsideration hearings ...

NEOCC prison inmate killed in stabbing

YOUNGSTOWN — An inmate at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center on Hubbard Road was stabbed to death and other inmates were injured in an 6:25 p.m. altercation Sunday. Elsewhere in the city, one other person was stabbed over the long holiday weekend and two people suffered gunshot ...

City man gets two years for stabbing

YOUNGSTOWN — A Youngstown man will miss the birth of his child and serve two years in prison for stabbing another man during a fight. Luis Deleon Otero, 30, was sentenced Tuesday morning by Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney on one count of felonious assault, a ...

Locals eye 7th District Court of Appeals seats

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County Court Judge Molly Johnson filed to run next year for a 7th District Court of Appeals seat with David “Chip” Comstock Jr., a longtime attorney and Western Reserve Joint Fire District chief, planning to seek the other appeals seat on the 2026 ballot. Both are ...