LIBERTY — Playing one of the first games of the opening week of the 2026 high school football season, Liberty made an early statement on Thursday night. Dawaun Moody led the Leopards with six touchdowns, and Liberty’s defense shut down Campbell’s offense in a 45-2 victory over the Red ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Higher education is facing a slew of unknowns and challenges, but through it all, Youngstown State University continues to rely heavily on a collaborative spirit to rise to whatever challenges may come its way, an official says. “It shows how deep trust and accountability run — happy faculty leads to happy students,” Jennifer Adams, YSU’s provost and vice president for academic affairs, said. That was among the primary themes on which Adams spoke while delivering the university’s annual State of Academic Affairs presentation Thursday morning in the Williamson ...
VIENNA — The high school football season in the Mahoning Valley kicked off on Thursday with a five-game slate across the area. A hotly contested game in last year’s season opener, the 2026 meeting between Jackson-Milton and Mathews provided some of the same theatrics. It was a ...
A Public Utilities Commission of Ohio judge will hear arguments Sept. 14 from the city of Youngstown and the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel urging the commission to revisit its decision to greatly raise steam heat rates for most of downtown Youngstown. Jacky Werman St. John, a PUCO administrative law judge, on Thursday issued an order for the Sept. 14 hearing at the commission’s office in Columbus. Her order came a day after the PUCO voted 5-0 to grant requests for a rehearing on its June 24 approval of emergency rate hikes to the 23 downtown customers that receive steam ...
GARRETTSVILLE — Football coaches at all levels stress the importance of the last possession of the first half and the first series of the second half. On Thursday, Garrettsville Garfield executed both drives and scored. It flipped momentum, and after another hour or so on the field, the ...
CLEVELAND — Gavin Williams struck out 11 over 5 2/3 innings, Jose Ramirez had an RBI single in the three-run first and the Cleveland Guardians beat the San Francisco Giants 5-2 for their first home series victory in seven weeks on Thursday. The Guardians hadn’t won a series at Progressive ...
