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US Justice Department investigates Minn. governor, Minneapolis mayor MINNEAPOLIS — The Justice Department is investigating whether Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have impeded federal immigration enforcement through public statements they have made. The ...

Youngstown council may give green light to remove 10 stoplights in city

YOUNGSTOWN — City council will consider legislation Wednesday to permit the board of control to sign a contract to obtain property needed for a project to remove 10 traffic signals, primarily along Market Street and Indianola Avenue, and replace seven others at intersections on those two ...

Butler Art gears up for mind-opening program

YOUNGSTOWN — Communing with nature is a common way to seek out tranquil spaces. In northeast Ohio in January, one is more likely to find frostbite outdoors than inner peace. The Butler Institute of American Art will transform into an oasis amid the chaos with a new program starting next ...

Property transfers

Property transfers recorded Jan. 5 to 9 in Mahoning County and portions of Trumbull County: Austintown Alexander Nicholas Stanley to Azalea Keith and Bradley Demapan, 5676 Baylor Ave., $194,000 Beaver The John J. Lesnansky Revocable Trust to Timothy Allen Flaherty and Julie Anne ...

Tactics used by ICE at protests criticized

Federal immigration agents deployed to Minneapolis have used aggressive crowd-control tactics that have raised concerns in the aftermath of the deadly shooting of a woman in her car last week. They have pointed rifles at demonstrators and deployed chemical irritants early in ...

Trump threatens to use 1807 Insurrection Act

MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an 1807 law and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis to enforce his administration’s massive immigration crackdown. The threat comes a day after a man was shot ...