AUSTINTOWN —- The 24th annual Patriot Day ceremony unfolded outside Quaker Steak and Lube in Austintown on Thursday night. The event remembered the victims of 9/11, saluted first responders and honored local military veterans who served from World War II to the present. Eleven veterans ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Effective Sept. 21, the city is reinstating Brian Flynn, fired as a police lieutenant in December 2022 after being accused of dereliction of duty, though back pay and interest he is owed is still undetermined. Youngstown was left with little choice but to reinstate Flynn after ...
By DAVID SKOLNICK Staff writer YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown has a $2.5 million settlement in place to be paid over six years to the executor of an estate in a wrongful death lawsuit with the city having to cover the entire amount and not through insurance. City council has to sign off on the settlement with the legislation in front of its members Wednesday and then it has to be finalized by the board of control. If the case had gone to trial, a decision against the city could have put it in serious financial jeopardy with it unable to use statutory immunity as a defense. The city ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Thursday marked World Suicide Prevention Day, and officials in Mahoning County took the opportunity to raise awareness of how the issue impacts local residents. Duane Piccirilli, Mahoning County Mental Health and Recovery Board executive director, said the county has seen 24 suicides in 2026 so far, roughly on pace with the 36 total suicide deaths last year. The most persistent trend in the numbers is that men, mostly those age 50 and over, still represent a disproportionate number of suicides in the county — roughly 79%. “We’re looking at trends and trying ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Many people fondly remember Blood, Sweat & Tears as a popular jazz/rock group from the late 1960s and early 1970s, though for Jodi Glass, the three nouns mean something nonmusical but no less special. “There are so many people to thank, so many years of planning, dreaming, ...
BOARDMAN — An Austintown man is accused of grabbing an officer’s Taser while fighting with police during a traffic stop Tuesday. A Boardman police report states officers found a stolen handgun beneath Wilburn Floyd Jones, 37, during the struggle. Police used a Taser on Jones twice before ...
