BOARDMAN — Trustee Tom Costello’s final meeting was a busy one. The township’s board of trustees had an executive session, then a hearing on a zoning matter before the final regular meeting of 2025. Costello, a trustee for 22 years — 16 of them consecutive, since 2009 — lost his ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The Ursuline High School federal hazing lawsuit, the first of several lawsuits filed against the school in recent months, has had a large number of filings throughout this month, including a filing called a “discovery plan” that raises questions about commentary on the ...

JACKSON TOWNSHIP — A Leavittsburg woman died in a 10:38 p.m. Monday crash on Interstate 80. Sgt. Patrick Abel of the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Canfield Post said Michelle Ritenour, 39, was traveling west near the Ohio Turnpike entrance when the right front of her Pontiac Grand Prix ...

Community groups, businesses and local students stepped up last weekend to brave cold weather and snow to honor veterans buried at local cemeteries by placing a wreath at their gravesides as part of National Wreaths Across America Day. Memorial services took place Saturday at both the Girard ...

YOUNGSTOWN — A passenger on a Western Reserve Transit Authority bus punched the bus driver three to four times in the head as he was getting off of the bus at 2732 Glenwood Ave. at 8:24 a.m. Thursday, a Youngstown police report states. The suspect, Marshall Herron, 24, was arrested ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Races for judicial seats on the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court are starting to come into focus with the Feb. 4 filing deadline closing in. Three general division seats as well as domestic relations and probate judge posts are up for grabs in next year’s election. Those ...