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Canfield Fair announces headliners

Big & Rich and Bret Michaels will be the headliners for the grandstand concerts at this year’s Canfield Fair. Big & Rich will be joined by Diamond Rio for a Sept. 6 concert, and Michaels will close the festival on Labor Day, Sept. 7, with Donnie Iris & the Cruisers as his ...

Engineer’s honor may benefit county

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A county official has been named to a prestigious post on a national board that could give the Valley a louder voice. Mahoning County Engineer Patrick Ginnetti was elected as the Northeast Region Vice President of the National Association of County Engineers (NACE) at its ...

OVI checkpoint yields 8 arrests during weekend

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County OVI Task Force, in collaboration with the Ohio State Highway Patrol, made eight OVI arrests during its sobriety checkpoint in the area of 1535 Mahoning Ave. from 10 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday. In addition to OVI, there was one felony arrest for drug ...

New ownership to take over McDonald Steel property

McDONALD — The site of the former McDonald Steel plant will be sold later this year, according to an Ohio EPA document filed April 7. An AP McDonald LLC representative confirmed the pending sale Monday, but did not disclose further details. “That is true,” project manager Doug Soper ...

Man robbed of valuables worth more than $6,000

YOUNGSTOWN — A man reported that another man got into his car near the Pit Stop Cafe on Logan Avenue about 4:10 a.m. Sunday and robbed him of items valued at more than $6,000. The incident began with a 911 call about a man having an AK-47 firearm in the same parking lot near the Pit Stop ...

Crews respond to Liberty fire

LIBERTY — Some residents were displaced after a fire ripped through a multi-residential house in the 4600 block of Middle Road Monday morning. According to fire Chief Doug Theobald, it took nearly four minutes for a crew to get on scene because the department already had a crew out. The ...