YOUNGSTOWN — Brandon Kovach, who was planning to run for the open Ohio House 58th District seat as a Democrat, has disaffiliated himself from the political party and will instead seek the position as an independent. “I didn’t leave the party — the party left me,” Kovach said. ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Board of Education has adopted a resolution to support a pair of bipartisan companion bills aimed at dissolving state mandated academic distress commissions for struggling districts. “It’s a super simple bill,” state Rep. Lauren McNally, D-Youngstown, said ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Kristie Weibling provided a roadmap of the evidence prosecutors planned to present in the rape trial of Dustin Ruiter, 50, in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Weibling said Ruiter began to sexually abuse one girl in 2018 and then a second ...

WARREN — A superseding indictment in a 2024 federal criminal case adds three additional defendants to a criminal enterprise that allegedly stole more than $127,000 from a Warren woman over age 60 through a “phantom hacker” scheme in which the perpetrators typically pose as a customer ...

The Ohio Secretary of State confirmed Tuesday that Ohioans for Cannabis Choice submitted enough valid signatures to move forward with an effort to give voters a chance to say no to Senate Bill 56 in November. The announcement followed the Ohio attorney general’s approval of the petition ...

LORDSTOWN — A village resident is asking officials to consider passing legislation against nondisclosure agreements in order to provide more public transparency. Resident Jeff Alderman said at Monday’s council meeting that council should consider legislation that would not allow a ...