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Mahoning Valley Thrive to initiate Immigration Law Clinic with benefit

A growing effort to expand access to immigration legal services in the Mahoning Valley is taking shape, as community leaders, legal professionals, and advocates rally behind a new initiative designed to meet a critical local need. Thrive Mahoning Valley is spearheading the creation of a new ...

City prepared for new convent

130 Years Ago, 1896 transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator: “The new convent will be a model structure of the very latest design. Will start next week. The building will be finished and furnished in an attractive manner.” “Within two weeks ground will be ...

Bricks fall from 20 Federal Place

YOUNGSTOWN — A large section of bricks on the exterior of the city-owned 20 Federal Place, a shuttered nine-story downtown structure, fell off and landed on the roof of a nearby structure. It’s the latest problem for the mothballed building that has sat empty for close to four ...

$1.9 million is sought to help attract business to Youngstown

YOUNGSTOWN — City council is being asked to spend $1.95 million for sanitary sewer improvements for a potential business at an industrial park though the request may be rebuffed. Legislation sponsored by Mayor Derrick McDowell requests council at its Wednesday meeting allow the board of ...

Mahoning elections board goes shopping

YOUNGSTOWN — After touring a long-vacant grocery store on the city’s South Side, David Betras, chairman of the Mahoning County Board of Elections, called it the ideal location for the board’s offices. Betras said Thursday after walking through the former Bottom Dollar store: “It’s ...

Man gets up to 4.5-year jail sentence for assault in Youngstown

YOUNGSTOWN — Devin M. Nash, 32, was sentenced to 3 to 4 1/2 years in prison Thursday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for an Oct. 25, 2024, assault at a home in the 3200 block of Ohio Avenue on Youngstown’s North Side. Retired Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Andrew Logan ...