YOUNGSTOWN — On Feb. 23, Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney postponed the rape trial of Matthew Nicholson, 47, after his attorney, John Shultz, filed a motion asking for sanctions against the Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office. The request came after Schultz ...

YOUNGSTOWN — City Council will consider Wednesday permitting the board of control to pay $272,000 to contractors hired to remove snow during the winter blizzards. The legislation gives the board authority to waive formal bidding and pay contractors for emergency snow removal that was ...

LIBERTY — Few individuals have a deep knowledge of the Belmont Park Cemetery like Ron Taylor. “It was opened up in 1913 — it was actually opened by a company, then the cemetery took it over in 1918,” said Taylor, the cemetery’s superintendent. “There was a fire there in the 1960s ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Kamille A. Hibbitt, 33, of Struthers, was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court after pleading guilty last month to felony child endangering and misdemeanor domestic violence. The three-year sentence was recommended by Mahoning County ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Visiting Judge W. Wyatt McKay found Jabron L. Perry, 20, of Youngstown not guilty of all three counts of felonious assault Thursday afternoon after a nonjury trial. Perry was believed to have fired 26 shots during a 5:21 a.m. melee at an afterparty at a business on Market Street ...

The Associated Press Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei issued his first statement on the war Thursday, saying Iran should close the Strait of Hormuz and keep attacking its Gulf Arab neighbors as leverage. Khamenei also called on people in Gulf countries to “shut down” ...