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YSU grad student creates web accessibility scanner

Youngstown State University graduate student Dil Rawat is using his capstone project in the Master of Computing and Information Systems program to do his part in tackling a growing national need: digital accessibility. Rawat, who has worked as a graduate assistant for the web team in the ...

Prosecutors ask that sentencing for uncooperative witness proceed

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County Prosecutor’s Office has asked to withdraw the motion it filed Feb. 27 that asked Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Anthony D’Apolito to vacate the guilty plea Saun Peterson reached in the stray-bullet shooting death of 15-year-old Amya Monserrat in ...

6 human traffickers get probation, ordered to pay fines of $166,000

WARREN — Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Ronald Rice sentenced six defendants in the human trafficking investigation of the former Tiger Spa and Sunny Spa, both on West Market Street in Warren, to three years of probation and fines totaling $166,000. He also made each of the five ...

Investors help Bacon movie sizzle at SXSW

Four area businessmen are prominent investors in a new film with husband-and-wife duo Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick as both co-directors and co-stars. The horror-comedy “Family Movie” had its world premiere Friday in Austin, Texas, at the SXSW Film Festival. Ken Haidaris (Sunrise Inn, ...

Sheriff, judges talk solutions for mental health challenges

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part 1 of a 2-part series on mental health services in the Mahoning County justice system. YOUNGSTOWN — A great deal of conversation about Mahoning County’s justice system in recent months has focused on its role in providing mental health services. On Thursday, ...