YOUNGSTOWN — Recently, Memorial Day honored veterans who didn’t make it home from battle. On Saturday afternoon, the inaugural Vets Fest at the Carl Nunziato Veterans Affairs Clinic on Belmont Avenue saluted those who did with an event to help them have better lives now that they are ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a weekly series on veterans that runs Mondays through Veterans Day. AUSTINTOWN — When Genevieve Douglas gave birth at age 18, she worried about their future. “I didn’t want to be a welfare mom,” Douglas said. “I was terrified of having to rely ...

YOUNGSTOWN — A woman, 55, was killed in a two-vehicle crash about 6 p.m. Friday at Southern and Midlothian boulevards on Youngstown’s South Side, according to a Youngstown Police Department news release. Officers were called to a traffic accident and found two vehicles, one of which ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Raymond K. Butler Jr., 28, was shot to death early Sunday in a vehicle he was driving at t Gibson Street and Poland Avenues just southeast of downtown. Youngstown police were dispatched to the location at 3:58 a.m. for reports of a person shot inside a vehicle and found Butler. ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Don Kovach worked for the Air Force for 34 years to make sure aircraft were in the skies. Today, he has a new type of fleet: He cares for millions of honeybees in his own backyard. Kovach started his Air Force service in 1975. In 1980, he moved to the Air Force Reserve and in ...

LAKE MILTON — Seventy-two young anglers cast their lines at the 31st Cindy Dean Memorial Kids Fishing Derby on Saturday — an annual free event hosted by Muskies Inc. Cleveland Chapter No. 23 to teach children the basics of fishing. “It’s just become a part of the community,” said ...