Staff report Samaritan’s Purse has collected shoebox gifts filled with toys, school supplies and hygiene items for children around the world as part of Operation Christmas Child. Every year, National Collection Week takes place the third week in November with more than 4,500 dropoff ...

Staff report SOUTHINGTON — The Warren Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol has selected trooper Adam Smith as its 2025 Trooper of the Year and Michelle “Shelly” Higgins for the 2025 Dispatcher of the Year award. Smith joined the patrol in 2023 and has been assigned to the Warren ...

Trumbull County WHAT: Trumbull Career & Technical Center board meeting Thursday The board: • Heard from Board President Brooke Vondrasek, chairwoman of the high school programs committee, that there will be literacy training for staff and an author visit next spring to work with ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Doubling up the entertainment while creating for a cause, The HELMS Foundation presented a family-friendly event in the afternoon then an adults-only one at night Saturday at Penguin City Brewing Company downtown. “SPLATTERFEST 2025: Getting Messy for a Mission” raised ...

YOUNGSTOWN — After having multiple motions denied, attorney Jennifer Ciccone, former Chief Mahoning County Deputy Clerk of Courts, paid the $4,000 she owed in a civil case she was handling, and Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney on Friday terminated her order for Ciccone ...

STRUTHERS —= John Newell recalled a time when his parents’ truck broke down on a camping trip and his father, Arthur M. Newell, used equal parts creativity and improvisation to fix a dead generator. The unconventional approach Arthur Newell took was to cut small chunks from his wife’s ...