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Austintown shooting victim identified

AUSTINTOWN — Officials have formally identified the man killed in a Wednesday shooting in Austintown. A press release from the Mahoning County Coroner’s Office on Thursday states that St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital informed the coroner just after 8 a.m. Wednesday of the death of Zachary Fisher, 30, of Austintown. The release states only that Fisher was the victim of the shooting and that an autopsy was conducted at the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office. A news release and police report issued Wednesday afternoon by Austintown police Chief Valorie Delmont states ...

Mathews starts slow, finishes strong to beat Kidron Central Christian

VIENNA — Going into this season, Mathews started on the ground level. Returning just one full-time starter at a new position and a part-time starter from last season, these new girls were going to have to learn fast. They’ve grown significantly over the course of the season, but the ...

Central Y gets $1M grant for renovations

The YMCA of Youngstown received a $1 million state brownfield remediation grant, while two projects in Warren received a combined $935,520 for improvement work. The three projects were among 160 receiving funding Thursday through the Ohio Department of Development’s Ohio Brownfield Remediation Program. A total of $61 million in grants was announced. Gov. Mike DeWine said, “Sites like these do no good when they’re left alone to contaminate the soil and impact the health of our neighborhoods. Throughout the past five years, we’ve changed the trajectory of hundreds of ...

James Harden, Cavaliers a win away from conference finals

This may as well have been called The James Harden Experience. In the span of 22 seconds during overtime of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night, Harden did all this for the Cleveland Cavaliers — made a free throw, missed a free throw, ...

Pirates top Rockies in Endy Rodriguez’s MLB return

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Endy Rodriguez had two hits and drove in a pair of runs in his return to the majors and the Pittsburgh Pirates breezed past the Colorado Rockies 7-2 on Thursday. Rodriguez, a catcher once considered among the top prospects in Pittsburgh’s farm system before missing all ...

Prosecutor: Candidates must take stand on death penalty

Staff report Gov. Mike DeWine announced this week he will give his position soon on the enforcement of the death penalty in Ohio, which for nearly eight years has not been enforced because of the state’s inability to obtain lethal injection drugs. “Though the governor says he cannot obtain these drugs, many other states are carrying out court-ordered executions at record levels,” Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins. Watkins provided a look at the death penalty in Ohio and recent action in other states that “provide compelling evidence to maintain the present death ...