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Mass shooting breaks out at Toledo summer festival

Multiple people were shot Saturday near a busy community street festival in Toledo, Ohio, and a search for the suspects was ongoing as victims were taken to nearby hospitals, police said. Toledo police officers responded to a report of a person shot near the Old West End Festival at about 5:30 ...

Ax tax drive stalls again

A proposed constitutional amendment to consider abolishing property taxes in Ohio won’t be on the Nov. 3 ballot because the group collecting signatures has again failed to get enough people to sign petitions. This is the second year in a row that the Committee to Abolish Ohio Property ...

Dem Senate candidate: Maine has got my back

BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Graham Platner, the insurgent Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, hosted his first major campaign rally on Friday night as reports continue emerging about his history with women. Last weekend, his campaign wrestled with stories about sexually explicit ...

Outgoing Boardman Township administrator preps for kidney transplant

BOARDMAN — As Jason Loree prepares to end his career as Boardman Township administrator, he is also preparing for a new beginning. After years of declining kidney function and an increasingly urgent search for a donor in recent months, Loree is scheduled for a transplant June 30. While ...

3 indicted in robbery on city’s North Side

YOUNGSTOWN — Three men have been indicted on aggravated robbery with a firearm specification in an April 21 incident on Hammaker Street on the North Side in which they are accused of robbing a man at gunpoint and taking his backpack/cross-body satchel, which contained a handgun, paperwork ...

Sister of slain officer wants parole denied

NILES — It’s been 44 years since her brother’s death, but Joanne Robbins still vividly remembers hearing the news for the first time, saying it’s something she’ll never forget. “I was in high school, I was 17 years old, and my guidance counselor came down to the band room to get ...