YOUNGSTOWN — Bergen Giordani is excited to be a “shark” — the type that smells not blood, but success. “Have confidence and know your numbers, and be ready to sell yourself. No one can sell you better than you,” Giordani, who co-owns Gorant Chocolates in Boardman, said. That was ...

AUSTINTOWN — For anyone involved in model railroading, real railroading or local history, July 12 will be a big day because that is when the Union Pacific Big Boy number 4014 locomotive will pass through Struthers on its summer tour. Number 4014 is the world’s largest steam engine. ...

POLAND — More than 300 community members gathered at The Lake Club in Poland on Thursday for an evening of celebration, fellowship and philanthropy during the annual Ladies in Little Black Dresses for Literacy fundraiser benefiting the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning ...

Staff report The Newton Falls America250 Treasure Hunt has grown to $36,400 in cash, gold, silver, coins and collectibles. Event organizer Thomas Colosimo of Fieldview Acres Mercantile said the treasure continues to grow as additional sponsors and supporters contribute to the prize ...

120 years ago, 1906, transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator: “An evening with spooks filled with surprises. Manifestations that raise the hair of the uninitiated. A lively seance through which a reporter passed without loss of limb or life — the worst to ...

AKRON — After spending nearly all of its regional final contest trailing, Maplewood wanted to set the tone Thursday. The Rockets did that with three runs in the first inning and let pitcher Addison Marker cut down the opposition throughout as they down Southeastern 4-0 to punch their ticket ...