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Court rejects ex-Vienna fiscal officer’s appeal

Staff report Vienna’s former fiscal officer will continue serving her prison sentence after the Ohio 11th District Court of Appeals rejected her appeal. Linda McCullough, who served as Vienna’s fiscal officer from 2019 to early 2024, is serving eight years in prison at the Ohio ...

Section of Edwards Street closed for sewer repairs

YOUNGSTOWN – Edwards Street between Mahoning Avenue and High Street is closed for emergency repairs to a sanitary sewer. The road is expected to open in about two days. Access to Interstate 680 is Glenwood Avenue to High Street.

Department of Aging reports Golden Buckeye phone scam

Staff report The Ohio Department of Aging is alerting Ohioans to reports of a phone scam involving callers falsely claiming to represent the Golden Buckeye program. Residents have reported receiving unsolicited calls from scammers attempting to obtain personal information, including ...

History in the making

YOUNGSTOWN — Though a select group was recognized out of the 128 middle and high school students who competed at the Region 4 Ohio History Day on Saturday, all participants were rewarded for gaining a deeper knowledge of past events in the Buckeye State, as well as the United States. “For ...

Sojourn students study horrors of slavery, Jim Crow

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — It stabs at La’Rayah Hodges’ heart to think that a significant period of American history sanctioned stripping millions of black people of their humanity and dignity. “I was thinking about how cruel it was selling these people like they were objects,” Hodges, an ...

Large crowds join No Kings rallies in Youngstown, Warren

Massive crowds protested Saturday against the war in Iran and President Donald Trump’s actions in “No Kings” rallies across the U.S. and in Europe. Minnesota took center stage, with thousands of people standing shoulder-to-shoulder to celebrate resistance to Trump’s immigration ...