YOUNGSTOWN — City council will meet Feb. 11 to start discussing how it will fill the vacant 6th Ward seat. The responsibility of filling the seat falls to city council because the Mahoning County Democratic Party is unable to have a quorum of central committee members from the ward meet to ...

WARREN — Cynthia Westcott Rice, elected five times as a judge as a Democrat, filed to run for reelection as a Republican for her seat on the Trumbull County Common Pleas Court bench. “I switched parties because (being a Republican) is where I feel comfortable,” Rice said. “I was born ...

Staff report WARREN — A Youngstown man pleaded guilty and was sentenced Tuesday to seven months in prison for an Aug. 18 police chase in Liberty. Glen K. Gabriel, 31, of Clay Street, entered his plea to a charge of failure to comply with the order / signal of a police officer before ...

WHAT: Board of education January meeting PRESENT: Victoria Davis, John Landers, R. Scot Murray, Candace Rivera and Thomas Varley The board: • Agreed to place a five-year, 5.9-mill renewal levy for current expenses on the May 5 ballot. A permanent levy of the same amount failed in November. ...

YOUNGSTOWN — A murder trial may be starting Monday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court after Jonthony Altreche, 21, told Judge Maureen Sweeney Wednesday he is rejecting the plea offer prosecutors have made. Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor Rob Andrews told Sweeney during Altrech’s ...

WHAT: Board of education meeting Jan. 22 PRESENT: Joseph Castor, Vincent Ragozine, Tammy King, Zachary Steiner and Scott Strain The board: • Named Steiner as student achievement liaison to the Ohio School Boards Association with Ragozine as alternate. • Approved the 2026-27 school ...