Girard WHAT: Board of education meeting Thursday PRESENT: Joseph Castor, Joseph Datchuk, Sue Ellen Davis, Vincent Ragozine and Tammy King The board: • Heard from Superintendent Bryan O’Hara that the Girard Performing Arts Center is “on the back burner” until school-funding ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Alonzo Clark III, 29, was arraigned Monday on felonious assault in an incident early Sunday in which he is accused of firing a gun at the vehicle of the mother of his child as she drove from their home on Landsdowne Boulevard on the East Side as part of an argument. Clark is ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, died Monday. He was 88. Bells tolled in church towers across Rome after ...

YOUNGSTOWN – Volunteers and staff at the Rescue Mission of the Mahoning Valley awoke early Sunday morning to prepare and to serve free Easter dinners to the public. Joel Savala, one of the five cooks at the mission, said he and the others prepared 20 hams as well as sweet potatoes, corn, ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Tim Hauser has served 10 years in the military and says he has no intention of sitting idly as funding and employees who assist fellow veterans are cut and services for those who nobly fought for the country are undermined. “I served in the Air Force from 1982 to 1992. I ...

McDONALD – The village has updated its policy on door-to-door soliciting, requiring all peddlers and canvassers to register at the administration building. Mayor Ray Lewis said the update is for the safety of residents, with door-to-door solicitation permitted between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ...