YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning Valley received some help to participate in America250-Ohio festivities. “A Celebration of Change Makers and Their Communities” received an Ohio History Fund grant Wednesday afternoon at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor, also known as the ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Members of Youngstown City Council peppered the administration with questions and criticism about a request to spend $1.95 million for sanitary sewer improvements for an industrial park site and then refused to consider it. Council members on Wednesday repeatedly expressed ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The longest-serving common pleas court judge in Mahoning County’s history is retiring next year, and three local attorneys will vie for the seat. Judge R. Scott Krichbaum, a Republican who is also the longest-serving elected official in the county, came to the bench in 1991. ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Anthony D’Apolito sentenced Saun Peterson to 20 1/2 to 26 1/2 years in prison Wednesday for Peterson’s role in the April 15, 2023, shooting death of 15-year-old Amya Monserrat outside of Martha’s Boulevard Tavern. It was a maximum ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Rabbi Joseph Schonberger told the people who attended Tuesday’s Holocaust commemoration in the rotunda of the Mahoning County Courthouse that “Antisemitism begins with attitudes and remarks that seem quite harmless,” but “history shows that it leads to dehumanization and ...

Lebanon, Israel have first direct talks in decades in DC WASHINGTON — Lebanon and Israel have held direct diplomatic talks for the first time in decades. Tuesday’s more than two-hour meeting in Washington came after more than a month of conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed ...