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Ramaswamy, Acton take positions on data centers

With data centers popping up in Ohio and creating controversy, Republican Vivek Ramaswamy and Democrat Amy Acton, who are running for governor, are taking positions on them. Ramaswamy said Thursday that he has three nonnegotiable requirements for data centers — they must ensure that Ohio families who live near them receive free electricity by providing power or compensation that directly lowers residential electric bills, they must pay their full property taxes, and they must comply with strict air and water quality standards while prioritizing brownfield and industrial ...

Two people indicted on similar charges in unrelated killings

YOUNGSTOWN — Kayla Dawson, 26, and Issac Chatman, 29, were indicted Thursday on similar charges involving two people who were killed even though their cases are apparently unrelated. Dawson was indicted on voluntary manslaughter and a firearm specification and felonious assault with a firearm specification in the April 28 shooting death of Kyree Hornbuckle, 25, at Oakwood Avenue and South Maryland Avenue on the West Side. If Dawson is convicted, she could get about 20 years in prison. Chatman was indicted on voluntary manslaughter with a firearm specification in the June 7 ...

Fiber-optic company files FCC complaint against Mahoning, Stark

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County will hire a Washington, D.C. attorney to represent itself and Stark County in a federal case filed by a broadband company. At Thursday’s meeting, Mahoning County Commissioners approved a resolution authorizing the appointment of outside counsel, at the request of the Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office. The petition, filed June 18, filed with the Federal Communications Commission by fiber-optic internet service provider Lumos, requests a preemption and declaratory ruling against Mahoning County and Stark County. The company objects to professional ...

Judge clears officers in Brookfield shooting death

Staff report A federal judge in a civil lawsuit late last month cleared a Brookfield police officer, a Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office deputy, Vienna police officer and an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper of all liability in the March 21, 2023, shooting death of Fred H. Wild in Brookfield. Law enforcement officers from several jurisdictions fired the shots that killed Wild, 50, of Girard, a fugitive with several warrants, as he drove a pickup truck with a snowplow attachment toward them while trying to escape a Brookfield cabin along state Route 7. As is customary in ...

City resident awakes to gunfire, explosion

YOUNGSTOWN — A South Garland Avenue resident reported that about 3:43 a.m. Thursday to being awakened by gunfire “followed by a loud explosion.” When a city police officer arrived at the East Side home, he spoke with city firefighters, who said they discovered fire on the porch and a blanket on fire in the street, a report states. Firefighters said they smelled gasoline or other accelerants when they arrived. They did not observe any incendiary devices after extinguishing the fire. The resident was reported sleeping when awakened by the explosion and gunfire. The resident ran ...

Prosecutors ask judge to reconsider dismissal of charge

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office has filed a motion asking county Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney to reconsider her dismissal last week of a felonious assault charge against defendant Marquez Jones, 27. Jones’ attorney, David Betras, requested the dismissal as a result of late arriving evidence — photographs and a crime lab report — fewer than 24 hours before Jones’ bench trial was set to begin July 29 in Sweeney’s courtroom. Betras said he wanted to use one of the photos during the trial that he learned about late but did not know whether ...