YOUNGSTOWN — After a day of testimony, it remains unclear exactly why Darius Smith apparently killed a teenager in May, but witnesses all seemed to agree that he did. Smith, 23, of Dewey Avenue, is accused of fatally shooting 16-year-old Ty’Ron Perry Jr. of Akron at Smith’s home on May ...
YOUNGSTOWN – The attorney for SOBE Thermal Energy Systems LLC’s receiver doesn’t object to requests by two customers – who were sent disconnection notices – to intervene in a Mahoning County Common Pleas Court case, but sees no reason why they’re seeking that status. Michael Moran, the court-appointed attorney for SOBE receiver John C. Collins, wrote in a Tuesday response that the request by West 34 Investors LLC, the owner of Wick Tower, and Erie Terminal Place LLC, which owns Erie Terminal Place, to intervene “is extremely unclear. Beyond desiring to be parties to the ...
GIRARD - City officials said they will check to see if nearly $70,000 in American Rescue Plan funds that need to be used by the end of the year can be used for work at the Wellman Theater. Auditor Julie Coggins told officials Monday the Wellman Theater fund has $41,500, mostly from speed ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The Seventh District Court of Appeals has affirmed the convictions and sentence of Dustin Ruiter, 51, of Youngstown, in his rape trial in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court earlier this year. It is a much different ruling than the one the appeals court handed down in 2023 ...
Youngstown State University is receiving $1.5 million and Niles is getting a $402,500 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission. The ARC funding comes through the federal Partnership for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) initiative to help address coal-related job loss in the Appalachian region. Both Mahoning and Trumbull counties were added to the ARC jurisdiction in 2008 as part of a congressional bill that allows them to qualify for federal economic development funding, job training and money for manufacturing. The two grants were announced Tuesday ...
A North Lima company is driving the development of top-tier industrial sites throughout the Mahoning Valley. Top Property Holdings marked the start of construction on the Youngstown Technology Park, a new speculative building development in Youngstown, with a formal groundbreaking ceremony ...
