STRUTHERS — Pamela Keener-Vanditti, 42, passed away Friday morning, Aug. 22, 2025, at St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital, after a courageous battle with breast cancer. Pamela was born April 8, 1983, in Youngstown, a daughter of David Keener and Barbara Walter, and was a lifelong area ...

AUSTINTOWN — Cheryl Jean Sokol, 62, passed away peacefully at her home, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. She was born March 17, 1963, in Youngstown, a daughter of Alan Granger and the former Norma Koveleski. Cheryl was a 1981 graduate of Poland High School. She worked as a buyer’s assistant at ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Tim Armstead, a West Virginia Supreme Court justice who also served as Republican speaker of the House of Delegates during a 20-year legislative career, died Tuesday, the court announced. He was 60. Armstead died following a brief hospitalization, the court said in ...

BOARDMAN — Dennis L. Amon, 85, formerly of Boardman, passed away Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025, after a year-long battle with cancer. Dennis was born Nov. 10, 1939, in Youngstown. He graduated from South High School in 1958 and married his high school sweetheart, Marian K. Hartman, on May 14, ...

MASURY — Jacob Taren Sloan, 17, died Saturday afternoon, Aug. 9, 2025, at his home. He was born March 28, 2008, in Youngstown, a son of James S. Sloan and Mary E. Balestrino. Jacob enjoyed riding motorcycles and four-wheelers, and gaming was his life. He leaves his mother, Mary E. ...

STRUTHERS — George H. Huggins, 91, passed away peacefully, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025, at Hospice of the Valley Hospice House, surrounded by his family. George was born Oct. 25, 1933, in Martinsburg, a son of the late Ralph and Grace Burger Huggins. He was raised on a farm in Danville and ...