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 ...

The Ohio Secretary of State confirmed Tuesday that Ohioans for Cannabis Choice submitted enough valid signatures to move forward with an effort to give voters a chance to say no to Senate Bill 56 in November. The announcement followed the Ohio attorney general’s approval of the petition ...

CHAMPION — Job seeking is notoriously daunting, time-consuming and can be emotionally draining. The goal of a new initiative in Ohio is to simplify and personalize the job-seeking process by providing a seamless means to find a job or career training. Lt. Gov. Jim Tressel visited Kent ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s board of control approved severance payments to four former department heads who were not retained when Derrick McDowell replaced Jamael Tito Brown as mayor. The severance payments, approved Monday 3-0 by the board, are mostly for unused sick time, paid at 35% of ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The board of control approved two contracts totaling $4,976,362 with MS Consultants Inc. for the Youngstown company to provide construction administration for the first two phases of a sewer interceptor project at Mill Creek Park and to design the latter two parts. The board ...