Staff report A former Warren G. Harding High School athlete was reportedly killed Wednesday in an officer-involved shooting in Indianapolis. Reports indicate that Dalys Jett, 21, died in the shooting after police said he had fired a gun at a group of police officers. Jett was a 2023 Harding ...
More than two weeks after the July 5 storms, Mahoning County and local communities were still staring up a mountain. Now, a regional cleanup effort is making a big difference and even running ahead of schedule. Mahoning County EMA Director Conner O’Halloran said more than 12 agencies and 100 people have been working in teams across much of the affected area to clear large piles of debris that were overwhelming individual townships. “We had an increasing amount of debris collecting on the right of way, it was getting dry, just piling up. Townships were offering to chip it, but ...
YOUNGSTOWN — About a year from now, Barb Ewing hopes to have additive manufacturing companies move into the new Youngstown Innovation Hub for Aerospace & Defense, located downtown in the former Vindicator building. Thursday was the symbolic shovel-turning in front of the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday had governors and electricity companies join a voluntary pledge to shield U.S. consumers from higher utility bills from data centers — a sign of how the artificial intelligence build-out has become a lightning rod of controversy before the midterm elections. The president first announced the pledge with leading AI and tech companies in March, but that initial commitment has done little to comfort voters who are already grappling with affordability issues as they worry about competing for electricity, water and land with tech ...
By RUSS BYNAM The Associated Press Tropical Storm Bertha brought heavy surf and some flooding to southern Louisiana and Texas as it came ashore on the Gulf Coast for a second time Thursday, hours before weakening to a tropical depression. The National Hurricane Center said wind gusts of tropical storm force were still possible along the upper Texas coast Thursday evening, and water levels in the area may remain high from storm surge. Bertha is expected to produce 1 to 3 inches of rainfall, with isolated totals up to 4 inches that could trigger flash flooding in coastal and south ...
NILES — Trumbull County Commissioners said they have secured as many grants and other funding for a $3.4 million sanitary sewer improvement project in the Crain Drive neighborhood in Weathersfield as they could, but residents will still have to pay their share to tap into the system. Commissioners hosted a public hearing Wednesday at Niles McKinley High School where the project, which is set to begin in October, was explained to more than 40 residents. “This project has been planned and worked on for the past five years,” said Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer Gary Newbrough. ...
