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NC man gets 5 to 7 1/2 years in prison in fatal Coitsville crash

Local News July 18, 2026

YOUNGSTOWN — Robert C. Powell, 25, of North Carolina, who was working in the Youngstown area when he struck a car in the intersection of U.S. Route 422 and North Hubbard Road in Coitsville Township, killing its driver, was sentenced recently to 5 to 7 1/2 years in prison. Powell gets credit for 67 days already spent in the Mahoning County jail. Powell was convicted at trial of aggravated vehicular homicide, a second-degree felony, improperly handling a firearm in a motor vehicle and misdemeanor OVI. Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Anthony Donofrio handed down the ...

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Farm hosted children for 2-week camp

Local News July 18, 2026

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 ...

Man suffers gunshot wound on Youngstown’s South Side

Local News July 18, 2026

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 ...