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Five more submit letters for Austintown trustee seat

AUSTINTOWN — Several more township residents have expressed interest in the vacant seat on the Austintown Board of Trustees. Last week, the township released the names of those who submitted letters of interest to be appointed as interim trustee in the wake of Robert Santos’ resignation from the board earlier this month. At the beginning of the July 6 regular trustees meeting, Santos announced he was stepping down immediately after having accepted a position with Mahoning County as Project Manager-Capital Programs. Per Ohio law, trustees Monica Deavers and Bruce Shepas must ...

Grants support energy study

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Resilient Energy Technology and Infrastructure Consortium — led by West Virginia University in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and more than 60 regional partners — will receive up to $160 million over the next decade from the National Science Foundation to develop innovative technologies to address the nation’s energy needs. RETI was selected as one of 12 U.S. National Science Foundation Regional Innovation Engines award recipients, the NSF announced recently. The funding is projected to generate 21,000 jobs, ...

YPD report details fatal May 18 crash on Route 711 entrance ramp

YOUNGSTOWN — A Youngstown police crash report reveals that a 66-year-old Boardman man died in an early-morning motorcycle crash on the northbound entrance ramp to state Route 711 on May 18. The report states that Mark D. Backhaus, 66, of Hitchcock Road in Boardman, was driving his 2011 Harley Davidson FLH onto the ramp from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard at 3:31 a.m. when the motorcycle went off the road on the left shoulder at the curve and lost control before re-entering the on-ramp and landing on the road. Backhaus was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital and was listed ...

Woman doesn’t know how she got stab wound

YOUNGSTOWN — A woman reported being stabbed in her abdomen while setting traps for feral kittens near a wooded area on the East Side but does not know how she got the stab wound. Officers were called to the ESA apartments in the area of 600 Kendis Circle at 2:08 a.m. Tuesday for a woman with a possible stab wound. When officers located her near a car, she was applying pressure to a one-inch gash on the bottom left side of her stomach that appeared to be about a quarter-inch deep. She said she was near the end of the fence line near a wooded area setting a trap for feral kittens. ...

Man arraigned three years later in 2022 kidnapping case

YOUNGSTOWN — Bond was set at $750,000 Tuesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court when Terrance A. “Andy” Machen, 35, of Youngstown, was arraigned on two counts of kidnapping, two counts of felonious assault and one count of aggravated robbery — more than three years after he failed to appear for his original arraignment date. Judge Maureen Sweeney set bond at $750,000 after Machen’s attorney entered a not guilty plea to the charges, which stem from a July 31, 2022, incident, in which Machen and two other men were accused of kidnapping two men and assaulting a ...

Sheetz construction gets closer in Cornersburg

YOUNGSTOWN — Demolition work at the former Rite Aid at 3525 Canfield Road in Cornersburg will begin in late summer or early fall to prepare the property for construction of a Sheetz convenience store. The company, founded in Altoona, Pa., confirmed the schedule Monday. A Mahoning County Building Department worker said the office received plans from Sheetz last week. An email to the Youngstown Zoning Department seeking confirmation it also obtained building specs had not been answered as of Tuesday afternoon. McCandless Holdings LP of Gibsonia, Pa., purchased the parcel in the ...