YOUNGSTOWN --- Eleven new Youngstown police officers took the oath of office Friday morning at the Covelli Centre Community Room. Beefing up the city’s safety forces is one of the priorities of new Mayor Derrick McDowell, far left. A new police chaplain, Rev. Vit Fiala, also was sworn ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The American military has ordered 2,500 Marines and an amphibious assault ship to the Middle East, a U.S. official said Friday, in a major addition of forces in the region after nearly two weeks of war with Iran. Hours later, President Donald Trump said ...

YOUNGSTOWN — On Feb. 23, Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney postponed the rape trial of Matthew Nicholson, 47, after his attorney, John Shultz, filed a motion asking for sanctions against the Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office. The request came after Schultz ...

YOUNGSTOWN — City Council will consider Wednesday permitting the board of control to pay $272,000 to contractors hired to remove snow during the winter blizzards. The legislation gives the board authority to waive formal bidding and pay contractors for emergency snow removal that was ...

LIBERTY — Few individuals have a deep knowledge of the Belmont Park Cemetery like Ron Taylor. “It was opened up in 1913 — it was actually opened by a company, then the cemetery took it over in 1918,” said Taylor, the cemetery’s superintendent. “There was a fire there in the 1960s ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Kamille A. Hibbitt, 33, of Struthers, was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court after pleading guilty last month to felony child endangering and misdemeanor domestic violence. The three-year sentence was recommended by Mahoning County ...