AUSTINTOWN — Police may have the advantage in a cold case after receiving a state grant. On Monday, the Austintown Police Department informed trustees that it had received a $24,900 Ohio Violent Crime Reduction Genetic Genealogy Grant from the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services. Lt. ...

COLUMBUS — The Mahoning Valley has become the hot spot in Ohio for human trafficking arrests, according to a new report from state Attorney General Dave Yost. The report, titled “The Drivers of Demand” and commissioned by Yost, provides a first-ever look at sex buyers arrested in Ohio ...

LORDSTOWN — Saying they want to be prepared in case a business seeks a permit that would utilize small mobile reactors or battery energy storage systems, village council on Monday approved a 180-day moratorium on such permits. Council approved first readings of two motions for the ...

YOUNGSTOWN — A man was charged with a minor misdemeanor of open dumping Monday morning after officers went to his home on South Whitney Avenue on the West Side for a dumping complaint. The report states that the officer has received multiple complaints about the man dumping items over the ...

WARREN — A possible location for the next Trumbull County 911 Center was introduced to the Trumbull County Commissioners two weeks ago at the Kent State University at Trumbull campus in Champion. Each commissioner on Tuesday noted the KSU location as a promising site for the dispatch ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Information on the Civil War is well-known, but what about some of the factors that led to its start? This week, we examine some of those issues and how, after years of growing tensions, the nation went to war with itself. The seeds of the Antebellum period in the United ...