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YNDC open house leaves residents feeling positive

YOUNGSTOWN — The stated central purpose of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation is “to foster the transformation of vulnerable, undervalued and transitional neighborhoods into…places where people are willing to invest their time, energy and resources and where residents can ...

Company says it’s not clear when its hantavirus-hit ship will resume cruises

The operator of the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak told The Associated Press on Wednesday it expects to know by the end of the week if the vessel will keep to its schedule for the coming months, as it previously indicated it would. The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius is listed on ...

1 dead in Austintown shooting

Staff report AUSTINTOWN — Police are investigating a man’s death after responding to a confusing scene at a local carwash. A news release and police report issued Wednesday afternoon by Austintown police Chief Valorie Delmont states that multiple calls came in about 7:15 a.m. Wednesday ...

Fight at Boardman park leads to shooting

YOUNGSTOWN — Police are still searching for two people who shot at a South Side house Tuesday night. A Youngstown police report states that someone named Kyree Phillips allegedly shot at a house on East Ravenwood Avenue sometime after 5:30 p.m. Tuesday while hanging out the passenger’s ...

Liberty man gets 10-15 years in prison for attack on pregnant nurse

WARREN — Roge E. Berger, 37, of Ventura Drive in Liberty, was sentenced to 10 to15 years in prison Wednesday for the Sept. 15, 2024, felonious assault and aggravated robbery of a pregnant nurse outside the former Trumbull Regional Medical Center in Warren. Berger pleaded guilty to the two ...

3rd murder suspect nabbed

YOUNGSTOWN — The last of three men indicted on aggravated murder in the Oct. 17, 2024, murder of Reynaldo Hernandez, 24, at a home on Bott Street on Youngstown’s East Side is now in custody. On Monday, Vincent Marbley, 61, of Youngstown, was booked into the Mahoning County jail. Jail ...