YOUNGSTOWN — Five Youngstown firefighters were sworn in to new jobs Wednesday at the main fire station downtown after being promoted. They took their oath of office in front of a large crowd of family and friends. But the ceremony also featured two other new leaders — new Youngstown Mayor ...

YOUNGSTOWN — City council approved four pieces of legislation to address Youngstown’s lead waterline issues and ratified a three-year contract with the police patrol union. Council voted 6-0 Wednesday on all of the legislation. With the 6th Ward seat vacant and a council member absent at ...

HUBBARD — A week after its township counterpart discussed purchasing a new radio system to improve communications for first responders, city officials moved forward with a similar deal for its police department. At Tuesday’s regular council meeting, Councilman Jonathan Rose, D-at Large, ...

BOARDMAN — Documents from the Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center show that a local teenager’s case likely will be transferred to Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. The complaint against the 17-year-old states that the court finds sufficient reason to believe the boy “is not ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Roosevelt Lewis, father of murder victim Ty’Lend J. Lewis, 21, seemed to understand Wednesday afternoon that witnesses in a trial must not say anything during their testimony that jurors are not supposed to hear so that the trial is fair to the defendant. He gave the example ...

YOUNGSTOWN — A love of writing punctuated Chris Barzak’s childhood, and the one-word title of the first Toni Morrison novel he read perfectly described the passion he developed for his life’s pursuit. “A college friend introduced the book to me. When I was 18, I read ‘Beloved,’” ...