YOUNGSTOWN — Societal achievements during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s aimed at making the nation live up to its founding creed continue to face mounting threats and rollbacks, so it’s imperative that nonviolent actions to counter such a regression remain ongoing, a ...

YOUNGSTOWN — In his young life, William Lambert was a cabin boy on local steamers, a tailor in Detroit’s garment industry, an abolitionist, a public speaker, a newspaper columnist and an active participant in anti-slavery efforts. Posthumous-y — and more than a century later — he also ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge John Durkin has dismissed the aggravated murder, murder, aggravated robbery with gun specifications and tampering-with-evidence charges against Damon L. Williams Jr., 29, in the June 6, 2021, murder of Kasean Bunch, 23, in a park on ...

YOUNGSTOWN — With as much fanfare as when it began, the Youngstown Diocese Jubilee Year 2025, Pilgrims of Hope, concluded Sunday with a special Mass at St. Columba Cathedral. With Bishop David Bonnar presiding, five Diocesan priests in attendance, including Ashtabula native the Rev. Sean ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Xiaoyan Tu, 35, of Flushing, New York, who was sentenced to one year of probation in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court after pleading guilty to felony promoting prostitution and misdemeanor soliciting Oct. 15, has been deported to China, according to court documents. A Dec. 4 ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Juvenile Makhi Cotton, who shot a 12-year-old boy in August 2024 in Youngstown while trying to steal the younger boy’s shoes, was sent to an Ohio Department of Youth Services facility to be detained up to age 21. The case was not bound over to adult court. The Ohio Department ...