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Zac Brown Band members pay visit to Boardman High

BOARDMAN — Creating an immediate connection between a successful musician who plays nightly to sold out arenas and awestruck students, Zac Brown Band percussionist Daniel de los Reyes walked among the members of the Boardman High School Rock Orchestra, Project Mayhem, to shake their ...

Elections official eyes Glenwood building

YOUNGSTOWN — Having serious concerns about the Mahoning County Board of Elections current location, board Chairman David Betras said he wants Youngstown officials to give the former Bottom Dollar store at no cost to the Western Reserve Port Authority, which would sign a lease to have the ...

Graphite One chooses Ashtabula site over Trumbull

Staff report The company that wanted to build a $435 million manufacturing plant in Trumbull County to produce essential material for electric vehicle batteries has instead chosen to locate in Conneaut in Ashtabula County. The new location is still within the boundaries of Lake to River ...

Officer: Driver failed field sobriety tests, slurred words

YOUNGSTOWN — Coitsville Township Police Sgt. Charles Butch testified for nearly two hours Tuesday in the aggravated vehicular homicide trial of Robert C. Powell, 25, of North Carolina, in an April 10, 2025, crash at U.S. Route 422 and Hubbard Road that killed the driver of another vehicle, ...

City student named city ambassador for national anti-violence program

YOUNGSTOWN — Josiah Jackson said writing his essay for the national Do the Write Thing program gave him a chance to finally say something he had carried for years. “I just want people to understand that it’s okay to be yourself and you shouldn’t let anybody else tell you that it’s ...

Man ties up clerk at phone store, steals dozens of phones, cash

YOUNGSTOWN — The Total Wireless store, 3319 Mahoning Ave., was robbed of 25 to 30 cell phones at 7:11 p.m. Monday by a man who took an employee into the back room at gunpoint and tied him up with neckties. A Youngstown police report states that when the officer got to the store, he spoke ...