YOUNGSTOWN — A Warren County man has been convicted of raping and kidnaping a 13-year-old girl in 2019. A jury deliberated for just over 90 minutes on Wednesday before returning a verdict to Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney. They found Shakrat Abshukurov, 44, of ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and Canada have ramped up their trade war, hitting each other with steep new tit-for-tat tariffs. Despite the bravado coming from both sides of the border, though, analysts suspect the longtime allies will eventually strike a deal to end a conflict neither really ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Potential Development, a pre-K through grade 12 school system for students with autism, is offering $350,000 to the city to buy the long-empty former Bottom Dollar grocery store with a planned $1,066,067 investment to make it a K-3 school. DeMaine Kitchen, the city’s community planning and economic development director, said he is pleased with the proposal and wants to move ahead with the sale. “I feel good about the purpose and the organization,” Kitchen said. “They are a long-standing member of the community. I don’t have reservations about them in that ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Commissioner Roger Goodell said the NFL is looking into whether San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York will be punished for violating the league’s personal conduct policy after he was caught in a prostitution sting in Ohio. “It’s being reviewed under the personal conduct policy,” Goodell said Wednesday at the owners’ meetings in Atlanta. “We’ll do that and when there’s something to be reported we’ll talk.” York was arrested Sunday in an East Palestine mobile home park by the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force after police said he ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Dolly Parton, the country music icon whose soaring vibrato vocals, poignant songwriting and sparkling costumes defined her rise from a log cabin in the Tennessee mountains to the height of stardom and acclaim, has died. She was 80 years old. Parton died peacefully ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County Board of Elections is considering a reduction in voting precincts, starting next year, because of issues recruiting enough poll workers and an eventual reduction in costs. With numerous people voting early, the strain on polling locations during elections is less than several years ago, said Tom McCabe, the board’s director. Also, with 212 precincts, the board of elections needs 848 poll workers for each election, and the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office wants 30% over that as backups, McCabe said. “We struggle with poll workers,” McCabe ...
