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Ursuline hosts esports tournament

YOUNGSTOWN — Having a career in designing video games is a long-term ambition for Devon Hineman-Haak, though he didn’t seem to mind taking a few hits along the way. “I want to be a game designer, which is part of the reason I joined this class,” Hineman-Haak, a Trumbull Career and ...

BHS student installs rain garden

Staff report BOARDMAN — Boardman High School AP Environmental Science student Lucy Papini ended her junior year last spring with a statewide grant and honorable mention in an Ohio Watershed competition. Lucy, now a senior, spent the next six months turning her grant proposal and vision ...

Plea talks ongoing in fatal hit-skip

AUSTINTOWN — Negotiations continue for a plea deal for a man charged in a fatal hit-and-run in March. James Stehura, 50, of Wedgewood Drive, is charged with aggravated vehicular homicide, a third-degree felony, in the March 11 death of Linda Adams, 66, on Lancaster Drive. At a pretrial ...

Lawyer’s law license suspended indefinitely by court

YOUNGSTOWN — The Ohio Supreme Court has ordered that imprisoned attorney Robert J. Rohrbaugh II, 51, serve an indefinite suspension of his law license with credit for 18 months already served of his interim suspension. Officials say it could be several years before Rohrbaugh is eligible to ...

Boardman seeks shoplifting suspect in two incidents

BOARDMAN — Police are looking for a woman they say punched a store employee in the face after he confronted her for shoplifting. The report states that on Monday at about 1 p.m., police responded to Hair Depot near the intersection of Market Street and Midlothian Boulevard for a call of ...

CJFD gives update on July chemical spill

By J.T. WHITEHOUSE Staff writer CANFIELD — Cardinal Joint Fire Chief Don Hutchison addressed the fire board Monday regarding the July 11 chemical spill that happened near the bike trail just west of the high school. The question came up in a previous Canfield City Council meeting as to ...