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Commissioner: Insight leaders still working to reopen Trumbull hospital

WARREN — When Trumbull County Commissioner Rick Hernandez questioned an official of the former Insight Hospital at Trumbull about whether its employees would be able to move their retirement accounts to new accounts, he was told they likely would be able to do so. However, Hernandez added that Dayne Walling, the Insight Health representative he spoke with, told him that hospital officials are still working to one day reopen the facility. To move forward, Insight officials will have to obtain new agreements with the building’s owner, Medical Properties Trust. “Dr. (Jawad) Shah ...

Austintown trustees tap Ciccone to replace Santos

AUSTINTOWN — The township’s governing panel is fully staffed once again. At Monday’s regular meeting of the Austintown Township Trustees, trustees Bruce Shepas and Monica Deavers announced their appointment to fill the seat left vacant last month by the resignation of Robert ...

Enbridge files counterclaim against city for Realty explosion

YOUNGSTOWN — Enbridge Gas Co. and its numerous affiliated companies, which are being sued by Youngstown officials for the deadly 2024 explosion at the former Realty Tower, filed a counterclaim against the city. In the counterclaim, Enbridge and its affiliated companies contend the city “breached its duties” by giving a $140,133 no-bid contract to GreenHeart Companies LLC. A four-person scrap-metal crew, engaged by GreenHeart — owned by Brian Angelili, managing partner of the company that owned the former downtown building — was working in a basement area underneath the ...

Rescuer finds, saves 11-year-old boy in a locked dog cage during fire

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Police Department and Youngstown Fire Department are investigating what is being called an arson early Monday in which an 11-year-old boy was rescued from a dog cage in a first-floor bedroom. An unidentified person rescued the boy from a locked dog cage while helping to rescue the boy and his family from a fire Monday on Forest View Drive on the East Side. A Youngstown police report does not state who the rescuer was, but the rescuer told Youngstown Fire Investigator Charles Hodge that he rescued the boy from “dog cage with three locks,” according to a ...

Man pleads guilty in 2025 gunfire on West Side

YOUNGSTOWN — Johnathan Spikes, 48, of Youngstown, pleaded guilty Monday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to discharging a firearm at or into a habitation or school safety zone with a firearm specification for a June 14, 2025, incident on North Portland Avenue on the West Side. Spikes ...

Businessman attempts to bring affordable housing

STRUTHERS — Local businessman and owner of Morgan Oil Mike Kassem hosted a grand opening and ribbon-cutting event at a house he renovated at 98 Park Way St. on Friday. It is one of 32 houses that have been renovated by Kassem. Citing his own experience growing up in poverty, Kassem said he ...