YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s new police chief, Sharon Cole, announced Wednesday that the city’s Impact Initiative for this year is intended to reduce violence and improve public safety in Youngstown. It will use targeted enforcement, saturation patrols and “proactive policing in areas ...

It took six years, but rapper Armani White finally is playing Youngstown. White, whose song “Billie Eilish” has been streamed nearly a half billion times on Spotify, will be the headliner for this year’s Federal Frenzy, presented by Youngstown State University’s Penguin ...

NILES — From basketball games to painting murals on the wall to reading to the preschool class, Hubbard High School students have participated in numerous projects at Fairhaven School, which is for special needs students. On Tuesday, they wanted to do something different, so members of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Travel disruptions deepened Tuesday as senators raced to salvage a proposal to end the Homeland Security shutdown by funding much of the department, including airport workers going without pay, but excluding immigration operations that have been core to the dispute. The ...

BOARDMAN — It remains to be seen whether criminal charges will be filed in a March 7 fatal shooting. The Boardman police report, made public Tuesday, seems to indicate that the death of Montrell Gilbert, 45, of Hillman Way in Boardman, may have been a case of self-defense. The report ...

U.S. Sen. Jon Husted, an Ohio Republican, sponsored legislation requiring large social media platforms to permit parents to receive real-time safety notifications if their children are engaging in dangerous or risky interactions. The bipartisan Sammy’s Law — with U.S. Sens. Mark Warner, a ...