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Flock cams addressed at Austintown meeting

AUSTINTOWN — Many expected this month’s trustees meeting to focus heavily on Flock cameras. Instead, only one resident raised the issue, just enough for police Chief Valorie Delmont to provide an update on the department’s process and progress with installing the controversial traffic cameras. “We’re just in the very beginning stages of planning for Flock. And we’re still, I’m still, going through the education process,” Delmont said. She was responding to resident Doug Wright, who asked a few questions about the six license plate reader cameras that Austintown ...

Hundreds gather to mourn victims of school fires

BUKAVU, Congo (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered on Monday at a mass funeral in eastern Congo to mourn 27 young victims of a fire that engulfed two schools, as families wept and officials laid down wreaths and made speeches. A fire swept through two adjacent schools last week in the city of Bukavu in eastern Congo, triggering a stampede as students tried to flee the building. At least 27 students were killed and dozens were injured, according to local authorities. The fire Thursday started at a house before spreading to the two adjoining schools, local neighborhood administrator ...

McConnell returns to Senate for first time since June

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky returned to the Senate on Monday for the first time since June 14, when he was hospitalized after a fall in his home. McConnell’s three-month absence from the Senate generated a flood of criticism and online speculation, as the Kentucky senator initially remained quiet for weeks about his condition. The 84-year-old senator eventually disclosed that he had been “briefly unconscious” due to the fall and had also been treated for mild pneumonia in the hospital. “My recovery has been a long and often frustrating ...

Agenda

• MILTON TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES will meet at 6 p.m. today at the township fire station. • MAHONING COUNTY BOARD OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES will meet at 6 p.m. today at the board office conference room with the ethics committee meeting at 5:45 p.m. • AUSTINTOWN BOARD OF EDUCATION will meet at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the board conference room for a work session and 7 p.m. at the middle school cafeteria for the meeting. • COITSVILLE TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the township hall. • YOUNGSTOWN CITY COUNCIL will meet at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the municipal ...

Bill seeks to connect businesses, colleges

Staff report State Reps. David Thomas and Nick Santucci, who both represent Trumbull County in the Ohio House, introduced a bill they say will better connect businesses with colleges and universities by providing students with workforce training opportunities. The Joining Opportunities, Businesses and Schools (JOBS) Act includes certificate programs that align with in-demand workforce needs, the legislators said. Participating businesses would receive a performance-based tax incentive for using the program. For each graduate hired by a company and retained for at least a year ...

On the record: Struthers

Struthers WHAT: Wednesday City council meeting PRESENT: Michael Patrick, Bob Deagan, Robert Burnside, Richard Bayus, Dallas Bigley, Megan Pingley, James Baluck and Mayor Catherine Cercone Miller ABSENT: Lori Gomon Council: • Received a letter from businessman Mike Kassem regarding a strategy to acquire state grant funding by leveraging modular housing. • Heard monthly reports for June, July and August from the KO Consulting economic development firm on opportunities to secure economic support for Struthers. • Approved appropriating no more than $1,000 to Willow ...