YOUNGSTOWN — For several years, Marc Ellis has primed his young students for better understanding and appreciation of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and most recently, the children have worked to prime a butterfly that landed hundreds of miles away. “Everybody had some ...
BOARDMAN — Police have identified the man they say shot at two women last weekend, causing a crash on Market Street, and are warning the public to watch out for him. In a news release, Boardman police Chief Todd Werth said Eugene G. Thompkins, 35, of Youngstown, remains at large and should ...
120 Years Ago, 1906 transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator: “Children of the poor happy and care-free. Handsomely entertained by Misses Kate, Lottie and Elsie Deemer. Most commendable undertaking that is accomplishing splendid results – all for sweet charity – descriptive.” “In a house especially built and arranged for their accommodation, the house being on the I. J. Deemer farm about a mile west of the village of Poland and on the road leading from that village to Canfield, are to be found 20 of the happiest, care-free and fun-loving children in ...
YOUNGSTOWN — A man was shot in the arm at a home on East Lucius Avenue on the South Side at 10:19 p.m. Thursday. Youngstown police officers applied a tourniquet to the man’s arm to stop the bleeding when they arrived. Officers were called to the home for a shooting and made contact with the victim in a bedroom. Two officers followed a blood trail to the rear of the house, where they looked inside the garage to ensure there were not more victims and to make sure the suspect was not still there. That is when officers saw a bullet shell casing by the side garage door on the ...
US, Iran escalate airstrikes in war DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United States has expanded its airstrike campaign against Iran by hitting more bridges and collapsing a tower at a key Iranian port. The seventh night in a row of strikes came after U.S. President Donald Trump’ had threatened to start striking infrastructure to pressure Tehran to ease its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz. Iran also launched new missile attacks Friday against U.S.-allied nations in the Middle East, including Qatar, a key mediator in the war, and Kuwait, where one of the desert nation’s ...
WARREN — In the early 1950s, the Packard Motor Car Co. was in better financial shape than it had been in years. By 1956, the final new Packard model rolled off the assembly line. How the iconic brand ended is chronicled in “Packard’s Fabulous Fifties,” a new exhibition at the ...
