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Former foster child: Warnings about rapist were not heeded

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YOUNGSTOWN — A former resident of the Youngstown foster home where Sergio Gonzalez III was living at the time he raped a young girl in 2018 contacted The Vindicator recently to say Gonzalez was having consensual sex with a 13-year-old foster child also living there in 2016. Sergio ...

Vehicle strikes, kills man, 35, in Boardman

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BOARDMAN — A 35-year-old man from Youngstown has been identified by the Ohio State Highway Patrol Canfield Post as the pedestrian fatally struck by a vehicle early Friday afternoon. The victim, Sean R. Baran, had been walking eastbound on the northern side of East Fairlawn Avenue. A ...

Mahoning grand jury indicts 18 on variety of charges

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YOUNGSTOWN — The following people were indicted by a Mahoning County grand jury Thursday: ● Renetha S. Thomas, 50, Mahoning County jail, felony theft, theft from a person in a protected class, two counts of felony misuse of credit cards, and single counts of receiving stolen property, ...

Steward Health Care to close two hospitals in Massachusetts

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BOSTON — Steward Health Care announced Friday it is closing two hospitals in Massachusetts because it received no qualified bids for the facilities after declaring bankruptcy earlier this year. In a statement announcing the closures, Steward said it has been working to sell or ...