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Engineer: Road tax goes the distance for taxpayers

AUSTINTOWN — Mahoning County Engineer Patrick Ginnetti made the first of many stops this week on his campaign to ensure roads and bridges get the attention they need. He gave a presentation on Mahoning County’s 0.25-percent sales tax before the Austintown Township Board of Trustees during ...

Trump blasted for a post of the Obamas

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s social media post featuring former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle was deleted Friday after a backlash from both Republicans and Democrats who criticized the video as offensive. Trump said later Friday ...

Man who stashed corpses gets 40-year prison sentence

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed 189 decomposing bodies in a building over four years and gave grieving families fake ashes was sentenced to 40 years in state prison Friday. During the sentencing hearing, family members told Judge Eric Bentley they ...

Valley airport gets $5M lift in US aid

Trumbull and Mahoning counties will receive $7.9 million from four federal appropriations bills signed into law with $5 million going to the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport to finish upgrading its runways. In addition to the $5 million for the airport, the bills will provide $1.5 million ...

65 fewer deer killed in third year of hunt

YOUNGSTOWN — The third year of deer reductions in the Mill Creek MetroParks ended a week ago with 146 deer removed through hunting and U.S. Department of Agriculture sharpshooters — 65 fewer than the 211 killed last year and the 204 that were killed the year before that. Mill Creek ...

Property transfers

Property transfers recorded Jan. 26-30 in Mahoning County and portions of Trumbull County: Austintown Shon M. Kessler and Paula M. Kessler to Anita Kessler, 75 N. Beverly Ave., $57,000 Brandon Taylor to Tamara Bradford, 3811-3813 Elmwood Ave., $98,911 Charles L. Lawson to Owen M. ...