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Coitsville trustees respond to concerns over reopening of McGuffey Preserve

COITSVILLE — The Coitsville Township Trustees issued a news release Thursday to address concerns raised this week by Richard Scarsella, chairman of the William Holmes McGuffey Historical Society, over the McGuffey Wildlife Preserve not yet being open after they acquired it from Mill Creek ...

Man sentenced to 2-3 years of prison on bribery, protection-order violations

YOUNGSTOWN — Judge Anthony Donofrio of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court sentenced Edward D. McLane Sr., 40, of Youngstown to two to three years in prison Wednesday on attempted bribery, two counts of violating a protection order and one count of cocaine possession. McLane gets credit for ...

Man arrested in aggravated robbery with deadly weapon

YOUNGSTOWN — A man, 32, was arrested following the aggravated robbery of a cellphone store on Mahoning Avenue on Wednesday night. A Youngstown police report states that officers were called to the store at 7:58 p.m. at an address on Mahoning Avenue that was blacked out under the provisions ...

YNDC gets $1M grant for Glenwood Avenue cleanup work

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. received a $1 million federal grant to clean up at least two contaminated sites on Glenwood Avenue and do testing on others on the South Side street. Funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfield Multipurpose, ...

Taxes, property values headline commissioners meeting

Mahoning County’s Board of Developmental Disabilities is asking voters to approve its first new operating levy in 26 years, but the measure could face a considerable hurdle. The Mahoning County Auditor’s office also reports that residential property values increased an average of 24% ...

Man convicted of rape caught on nanny cam

YOUNGSTOWN — The jury in the Keontae Thomas rape, kidnapping and aggravated robbery trial found Thomas guilty on all counts and specifications Wednesday in a verdict that left prosecutors happy that they had obtained justice for a woman who endured a number of challenges to get to that ...