YOUNGSTOWN — A mandate to limit Youngstown police officers’ overtime to 28 hours a week didn’t last long with a city law department attorney determining the police chief’s edict violated the patrol officers’ union contract. The union objected to the memorandum issued April 16 by ...

Staff report The Vindicator and Tribune Chronicle have been named finalists in the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors competition. The newspapers compete in Division II, which is for newsrooms with 10-20 employees. The top three finalists in each category were announced Monday, but the ...

CHARLESTON W.Va. — West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey said that all West Virginia National Guard personnel in Qatar are accounted for and safe following retaliatory bombing by Iran of an air base after the U.S. bombed suspected nuclear facilities in Iran. In a statement Monday afternoon, ...

HUBBARD TOWNSHIP — The township’s administration building was packed to capacity as residents welcomed their new police chief, who is officially on the job as of today. Brenda Freeman was sworn in Monday, completing a months-long search that kicked off in late February and involved 11 ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The tragic killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till shocked Gionna Floyd and pulled forcibly on her heartstrings. “It makes me mad that he died because he was really little,” Gionna, 9, a Volney Rogers Elementary School student, said Monday. “I felt really, really, really ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Rickie Salus, 39, of North Lima, pleaded guilty Monday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to soliciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity and other sex offenses involving the same child. The plea agreement he and his attorney reached calls for Salus, of ...