YOUNGSTOWN — For several years, Marc Ellis has primed his young students for better understanding and appreciation of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and most recently, the children have worked to prime a butterfly that landed hundreds of miles away. “Everybody had some ...

STRUTHERS — Social media influencer and artist Johnny Pittsburgh gifted a painting of the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 to the city of Struthers. Johnny was invited by Struthers police Chief Tim Roddy to attend the Big Boy whistle-stop event July 12. “He just posts things about the city of ...

LIBERTY — A 49-year-old man was taken into custody early Friday after a notice from a local police department linked his vehicle to an earlier stabbing at a local bar. According to a police report, a Liberty officer noticed a white Dodge Charger traveling at a high rate of speed eastbound ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The city of Youngstown and JAC Management Group is again looking to hire a community engagement and inclusion coordinator for the Wean Park Complex. The complex is a 22-acre riverfront entertainment area including Wean Park, the Covelli Centre, Youngstown Foundation ...

YOUNGSTOWN — A man was shot in the arm at a home on East Lucius Avenue on the South Side at 10:19 p.m. Thursday. Youngstown police officers applied a tourniquet to the man’s arm to stop the bleeding when they arrived. Officers were called to the home for a shooting and made contact ...

WARREN — In the early 1950s, the Packard Motor Car Co. was in better financial shape than it had been in years. By 1956, the final new Packard model rolled off the assembly line. How the iconic brand ended is chronicled in “Packard’s Fabulous Fifties,” a new exhibition at the ...