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Flying High grads overcome turbulence, launch careers

YOUNGSTOWN — One of the Valley’s unique schools celebrated its newest graduates Thursday. The Professional Development Center, a division of Flying HIGH Inc., honored 37 individuals, including an inaugural class of five students from Valley Christian School. The students graduated with ...

Maplewood softball headed to state championship

AKRON — After spending nearly all of its regional final contest trailing, Maplewood wanted to set the tone Thursday. The Rockets did that with three runs in the first inning and let pitcher Addison Marker cut down the opposition throughout as they down Southeastern 4-0 to punch their ticket ...

$16M targeted to Mahoning Valley projects

Mahoning County would receive $13,178,601 from the state’s capital budget, with about $10.7 million going to Youngstown State University, while Trumbull County would get $3,022,500 under the spending plan approved by the Ohio Senate. Not including YSU, Mahoning would get $2,471,079 for ...

Teen victim of Youngstown’s latest homicide identified

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County Coroner’s Office has identified Ty-Ron Perry Jr., 16, as the boy who was shot to death early May 27 at a home in the 900 block of East Dewey Avenue. A coroner’s office news release states that the coroner’s office was notified at 1:52 a.m. May 27 ...

Ex-FirstEnergy execs reindicted in $60M Ohio bribery case

COLUMBUS — A grand jury has reindicted two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives whose initial prosecutions in the state’s long-running $60 million bribery scandal ended in mistrial earlier this year, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced Thursday. Yost, a Republican, joined Summit ...

Speaker focuses on fossils found in Ohio

WARREN — Just how abundant fossils are in Ohio, and what types of ancient animal and plant life inhabited Ohio were the topics of a presentation by Carrie Schweitzer, a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Kent State University, on Wednesday at the Warren-Trumbull County Public ...