Staff report U.S. Rep. Michael Rulli, R-Salem, introduced a bill to ensure Supplemental Security Income recipients don’t lose or have their benefits reduced when they receive settlement payments after a tragedy such as the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine. Cosponsored with U.S. ...

Staff report YOUNGSTOWN — A man and woman reported being awakened in an apartment at the University Edge Apartments on Lincoln Avenue near Youngstown State University at 6:40 a.m. Sunday to an armed intruder wearing a ski mask and a “puffy coat” in the bedroom. The intruder was ...

A Mahoning Valley-based nonprofit will provide $3,000 worth of emergency food assistance to veterans in the Mahoning Valley. According to a news release, the Cover Down Fund received a donation from John J. Cafaro, which will allow both the Mahoning County Veterans Service Commission and ...

HUBBARD — With it being a little more than a year since the city approved the sale of adult-use recreational marijuana through an election, officials were curious about where things stood with the portion of the state’s tax funds. Toward the end of Monday’s city council meeting, ...

EAST PALESTINE — Jessica Conard, now a nationally recognized rail safety and environmental health advocate who emerged from the aftermath of the 2023 East Palestine train derailment, recently launched a new program to help communities identify and respond to rail-related threats before ...

AUSTINTOWN — The Ohio State Highway Patrol Canfield Post is investigating a two-vehicle crash involving a marked patrol car that occurred around 9:30 p.m. Friday on Interstate 680 at the Meridian Road exit ramp in Austintown. A trooper was driving northbound on I-680 and was approaching the ...