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YSU QB Brungard wins FCS’ Walter Payton Award

It’s been an eventful month for Beau Brungard since Youngstown State’s season came to an end at the end of November. The junior quarterback has received countless honors and awards in recognition of his breakout 2025 campaign. He was named Missouri Valley Football Conference Offensive ...

Trump: After capture of Maduro, US will run Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela —- The United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and flew him out of the country in a stunning military operation early Saturday that plucked a sitting leader from office — the culmination of months of escalating Trump administration pressure on the ...

Homicide rate in Youngstown drops 58% since 2021

YOUNGSTOWN — Carl Davis, whose five years as Youngstown police chief ended on Wednesday, remembers that his first year as chief in 2021 had its challenges, including 31 homicides in the city. The number dropped to 13 homicides in 2025, the lowest number since at least 1967, the earliest year ...

Roll call of Youngstown’s 13 homicide victims in 2025

Here is a roll call of the 13 victims of homicide in 2025 in Youngstown: 1 Brandon Ogden, 27, shot to death Jan. 10 on Ohio Avenue on the North Side. Jonathan Simmons, 30, who is charged with murder, is set for trial Feb. 2. 2 Resean Graham Sr., 42, was found shot to death on Griselda ...

Liberty welcomes new police chief

LIBERTY — Looking back at the past decade, Ray Buhala admitted that he initially never wanted to become the police chief, but the desire was something that he grew into with time. “It’s one of those things that just kind of evolved on its own; it was kind of organic how it happened. I ...

Trump: US will rescue protesters in Iran

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump and top Iranian officials exchanged dueling threats Friday as widening protests swept across parts of the Islamic Republic, further escalating tensions between the countries after America bombed Iranian nuclear sites in June. At ...