KENT — Mark Carney was named Kent State's football coach Thursday, removing the interim tag he has had since April. Carney was named the interim coach after Kenni Burns was fired because of multiple violations of his contract, including how he used a personal credit card. The Golden Flashes ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Twins have picked former bench coach Derek Shelton, who managed the Pittsburgh Pirates for five-plus years, as their new manager. The Twins made a formal announcement on Thursday and scheduled an introductory news conference for Shelton on Tuesday. Shelton had an ...

A new congressional map to be adopted today by the Ohio Redistricting Commission would split Mahoning County into two districts, putting part of it into a district that includes all of Trumbull County. The map, introduced at Thursday’s commission meeting, has bipartisan support with a vote ...

BOARDMAN — If you traveled one mile for every package of soup and hot cereal that was assembled then distributed, you would find yourself more than halfway to the moon. “We’re trying to do easy-to-package items that are easy for families to make,” Cassandra Valentini, Direction Home of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — General Motors is laying off about 1,700 workers across manufacturing sites in Lordstown and Michigan as the auto giant adjusts to slowing demand for electric vehicles. The Detroit News first reported the cuts on Wednesday — covering about 1,200 jobs at an all-electric ...

YOUNGSTOWN — A second attempt by SOBE Thermal Energy Systems LLC’s court-appointed receiver to use an old Youngstown State University pipeline to provide backup energy for much of the city’s downtown failed while the current system experiences leaks. Also, efforts by Youngstown Mayor ...