YOUNGSTOWN — The longest-serving common pleas court judge in Mahoning County’s history is retiring next year, and three local attorneys will vie for the seat. Judge R. Scott Krichbaum, a Republican who is also the longest-serving elected official in the county, came to the bench in 1991. ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Anthony D’Apolito sentenced Saun Peterson to 20 1/2 to 26 1/2 years in prison Wednesday for Peterson’s role in the April 15, 2023, shooting death of 15-year-old Amya Monserrat outside of Martha’s Boulevard Tavern. It was a maximum ...

Lebanon, Israel have first direct talks in decades in DC WASHINGTON — Lebanon and Israel have held direct diplomatic talks for the first time in decades. Tuesday’s more than two-hour meeting in Washington came after more than a month of conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Rabbi Joseph Schonberger told the people who attended Tuesday’s Holocaust commemoration in the rotunda of the Mahoning County Courthouse that “Antisemitism begins with attitudes and remarks that seem quite harmless,” but “history shows that it leads to dehumanization and ...

David L. Engler, a Trumbull County Domestic Relations/Juvenile Division Court judge, filed a lawsuit in the Ohio Supreme Court seeking to stop abortions in the state because the 2023 constitutional amendment legalizing them eliminated guardrails for minors. “A 15-year-old girl in Ohio ...

YOUNGSTOWN — When it comes to reclaiming its identity, the city is like a seven-course meal, but in need of a chef to bring it all together, the top leader says. “This city has more than other cities, but we do less,” Mayor Derrick McDowell said. McDowell was the keynote speaker for ...