Liberty WHAT: Board of education meeting Dec. 15 PRESENT: Shawn Chrystal, Janine Hamilton, Hans Kirr, David Malone and Kara Morgan The board: ● Approved FMLA leave for Doan McKinney from Jan. 5 to March 20. and for Nicholas Vitale from Dec. 11 to Dec. 19. ● Approved the 2025-26 ...

Gov. Mike DeWine signed into law a bill sponsored by state Rep. Tex Fischer, R-Boardman, to require employers in the construction business to use the federal E-Verify program to ensure workers hired in Ohio are legally authorized to work in this country. The U.S. Department of Homeland ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Sanjuan Smith, 57, who has an extensive criminal record, including a 10-year prison sentence in 2012 for attempted rape, kidnapping and felonious assault, was scheduled for arraignment Wednesday on felony strangulation and misdemeanor assault in a Monday incident involving a ...

Staff report YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Foundation on Monday announced more than $1.8 million in new grants to 27 local nonprofit projects, including a new wellness center for first responders and an expansion project at the Rescue Mission of the Mahoning Valley. The foundation awarded ...

Staff report YOUNGSTOWN — Two incidents were reported Sunday night that involved fires being started in places that could possibly endanger the safety of others. At 8:04 p.m. Sunday, police were called to Homewood Avenue on the South Side for fire damage near a home. A resident of the ...

Staff report YOUNGSTOWN — A car was apparently lit on fire with a Molotov-cocktail type of device on East Warren Avenue on the South Side Monday night. A Youngstown police report states that officers were dispatched at 11:15 p.m. and found the Youngstown Fire Department tending to a ...