YOUNGSTOWN — City council agreed to allow the board of control to spend up to $33 million for final design and construction administration on building a facility as part of its major wastewater improvement project. Council voted 6-0 Wednesday on the legislation with Councilman Julius ...

AUSTINTOWN — Another hurdle has been cleared in the township’s fight to end problems at a business along South Four Mile Run Road. Zoning Inspector Darren Crivelli said the Austintown Zoning Commission, at an Oct. 30 hearing, approved a motion to rezone three parcels on that street to ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Mayor-elect Derrick McDowell said he will conduct formal interviews this week with the city’s current chief of staff, law director and finance director to determine if they will remain in their current positions when he takes over Jan. 1. McDowell said his goal is to have a ...

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers seeking to force the release of files related to the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein are predicting a big win in the House this week with a “deluge of Republicans” voting for their bill and bucking the GOP leadership and President Donald ...

YOUNGSTOWN — After having multiple motions denied, attorney Jennifer Ciccone, former Chief Mahoning County Deputy Clerk of Courts, paid the $4,000 she owed in a civil case she was handling, and Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney on Friday terminated her order for Ciccone ...

STRUTHERS —= John Newell recalled a time when his parents’ truck broke down on a camping trip and his father, Arthur M. Newell, used equal parts creativity and improvisation to fix a dead generator. The unconventional approach Arthur Newell took was to cut small chunks from his wife’s ...