YOUNGSTOWN — If one who is engaged in a recreational activity has fewer opportunities or resources that will lead to the main goal, a key strategy may be to expand those resources. “With fewer fish in the pool, we need to cast a wider net,” Youngstown State University President Bill ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Developer Dominic Marchionda, two of his companies, and former city Finance Director David Bozanich have asked a judge to dismiss Youngstown’s $834,608 civil lawsuit against them because the city failed to timely serve them with the complaint. Douglas Ross — attorney for ...

JACKSON — A major county project along Mahoning Avenue will begin in earnest in about two weeks with a bridge replacement. That work means a 60-day road closure in the immediate area — likely the first of many — but Mahoning County Engineer Patrick Ginnetti said the federally-funded ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Brandon Kovach, who was planning to run for the open Ohio House 58th District seat as a Democrat, has disaffiliated himself from the political party and will instead seek the position as an independent. “I didn’t leave the party — the party left me,” Kovach said. ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Board of Education has adopted a resolution to support a pair of bipartisan companion bills aimed at dissolving state mandated academic distress commissions for struggling districts. “It’s a super simple bill,” state Rep. Lauren McNally, D-Youngstown, said ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Kristie Weibling provided a roadmap of the evidence prosecutors planned to present in the rape trial of Dustin Ruiter, 50, in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Weibling said Ruiter began to sexually abuse one girl in 2018 and then a second ...