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Youngstown considers $7.3M for sewage project

YOUNGSTOWN — City council will consider legislation Monday to authorize the board of control to spend about $3.8 million on initial site work and up to $3.5 million to relocate utility lines for an estimated $170 million wastewater improvement project. One ordinance would permit the ...

Board adds ‘Trump’ to Kennedy Center facade

WASHINGTON — The battle over the Kennedy Center’s future escalated Thursday as President Donald Trump’s allies on the board took new steps to commemorate him with physical changes to the iconic performing arts institution that could defy a federal court order. During an hourslong ...

Rate hikes for SOBE may get revisited

By DAVID SKOLNICK Staff writer The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio will meet Wednesday to consider whether it will rehear its June 24 decision to approve significant emergency rate increases for SOBE Thermal Systems LLC, which impacted all of its downtown Youngstown customers. The PUCO will consider requests for a rehearing from the city of Youngstown and the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel regarding the rate increases for SOBE’s customers. The PUCO approved steam heat rate increases for all SOBE customers with most of them paying 93% more, starting June 30, and an ...

Three US criminals executed in one day

Tennessee and Oklahoma put inmates to death within 30 minutes of each other Thursday and Alabama followed suit hours later as U.S. states executed three men by lethal injection in one day for the first time since 2010. The Tennessee man was executed for killing a motel maid in 1985 and the Oklahoma man for killing his girlfriend in 2003. In Alabama, a man was put to death for killing a 5-year-old girl he had offered to pay her mother to abuse. Having three executions in one day was a coincidence in scheduling, but reflected a trend of increased executions in the U.S. Eleven states ...

Cops continue manhunt in Boardman; suspect’s sister charged with felonies

BOARDMAN — Police are still looking for a man who led them on a foot chase through Applewood Acres on Wednesday evening. While the official report redacted his name, Boardman Police Chief Todd Werth said Stacey Dwayne Mahone Jr., 24, of Boardman, is wanted on felony warrants out of his ...

Luigi Mangione expected to plead guilty

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione is expected to plead guilty as early as Friday in the federal case accusing him of stalking and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person, who was not authorized to talk publicly about the case and ...