BELOIT — Two West Branch Local School District students won prestigious prizes at the recent Ohio State Fair in Columbus. Zayden Wooten, 13, who will be an eighth grader at West Branch this year, was named Southdown Breed Champion in the Junior Market Lamb Show on July 29. For junior ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown police took a boy to the detention facility at the Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center following a Monday morning attack in a room at a Safehouse Residential Services facility on Eastview Avenue off Jacobs Road on the city’s East Side. A Youngstown police report states that officers were called to the facility at 9:39 a.m. Monday for an assault and spoke with staff members and an administrator who said the boy entered another child’s room, despite it being locked. The boy bypassed the lock by using a plastic comb, the report states. The boy then ...
SALEM — Shreyas Baldevbhai Chaudhary, 25, who is from the Republic of India, will be sentenced at 10 a.m. Thursday in U.S. District Court in Cleveland for his role in a three-person scheme that stole millions of dollars from older adults across the United States, including a 77-year-old Salem man. Prosecutors are recommending that he get about eight to 10 years in prison. They say he was the person who directed the scheme. One of his co-conspirators, Trusha Chaudhary, who is not related to Shreyas Baldevbhai Chaudhary, will be sentenced for her role in the scheme at 3 p.m. today. ...
YOUNGSTOWN — A special court docket for military veterans will continue with the aid of opioid settlement funds. Mahoning County commissioners last week allocated $100,000 in opioid settlement dollars to the Veterans Felony Honor Court program operated by Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Anthony D’Apolito. D’Apolito took over the docket from its founder, Judge Shirley Christian, shortly after it began in 2016. In the 10 years it has operated, D’Apolito said, the program has graduated more than 50 defendants with military backgrounds and helped ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Even though one program under Choffin Career & Technical Center’s adult-education umbrella has been temporarily sidelined, the vocational and technical school is continuing to grow, an official contended. “The dental program at Choffin has been paused until 2027-28,” Sherry Cross, the adult-education director, said during the regular Youngstown Board of Education meeting Tuesday at Youngstown Rayen Early College High School. “We just did not have the people coming to this program this particular year.” It’s important for that program to attract at least ...
AUSTINTOWN — The Austintown Local School District will provide free breakfast and lunch to all students under the federal Community Eligibility Provision for the 2026-27 school year. This policy eliminates the collection of meal applications for free, reduced price and paid student meals; reduces burdens for both families and school administrators; and helps ensure that students receive nutritious meals, according to a news release from the district. Families with children eligible for school meals may also be eligible for free health care coverage through Medicaid and/or Ohio’s ...
