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Mural splashes onto river’s shores

WARREN — “Mo’ Musky” is swimming where a giant once slept. Warren artist Aaron Chine painted a 100-foot long, brightly colored muskellunge fish (commonly called a musky) on a retaining wall near the Mahoning River that is visible to an estimated 9,000 motorists each day driving on ...

Trump imposes double-digit tariffs on dozens of countries

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is going ahead with new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners just as the clock runs out today on stopgap levies he imposed after a stinging defeat at the Supreme Court. The United States will slap taxes of 10% to 12.5% on imports from ...

Ex-Mahoning Valley athlete shot, killed by Indianapolis police

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 ...

Regional effort speeds up storm damage cleanup

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 ...

Hubbub surrounds groundbreaking for Innovation Hub

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 ...

Trump vows to cut costs of utilities

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 ...