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Winter storm slams East Coast

NEW YORK (AP) — A massive snowstorm pummeled the northeast United States from Maryland to Maine on Monday, forcing millions of people to stay home amid strong wind and blizzard warnings, transportation shutdowns, and school and business closures. The storm dumped up to 2 feet of snow in ...

Security forces, cartel gunmen continue to clash in Mexico

TAPALPA, Mexico (AP) — A day after the Mexican army killed the country’s most powerful drug lord, the picturesque town where it happened was a study in contrasts. Tourist shops in Tapalpa were open Monday, and workers were on the job. But gunshots also rang out, and in the street was a ...

4 apply for city’s 6th Ward vacancy

YOUNGSTOWN — Four people applied to seek city council’s appointment to the vacant 6th Ward seat with the legislative body planning to select someone by its March 4 meeting. The person selected, which requires a vote of at least four of the six sitting council members, would succeed ...

Mahoning chief deputy clerk files for appeals court seat as write-in

YOUNGSTOWN — Katherine E. Rudzik, the Mahoning County Clerk of Courts’ chief deputy clerk and a registered Republican, filed to run as a write-in candidate in the Democrat primary for a seat on the 7th District Court of Appeals. Rudzik, of Poland, is the only candidate to file as a ...

Mother of girl killed in 2023 testifies in murder trial

YOUNGSTOWN — Jaismon Morris had driven her daughter, Amya Monserrat, 15, and a friend of her daughter to a birthday party for a 16-year-old at Martha’s Boulevard Tavern on Southern Boulevard April 15, 2023, but started to become concerned. Morris was talking to a bartender and learned ...

Woods under attack

While on a childhood hike through a neighborhood woodlot with my dad, my earliest memory of beech trees is noticing that the smooth gray bark served as a billboard to announce local romance. Two sets of initials inside a heart carved into the bark was a woodland Valentine of sorts. The ...