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Grants support energy study

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Resilient Energy Technology and Infrastructure Consortium — led by West Virginia University in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and more than 60 regional partners — will receive up to $160 million over the next decade from ...

YPD report details fatal May 18 crash on Route 711 entrance ramp

YOUNGSTOWN — A Youngstown police crash report reveals that a 66-year-old Boardman man died in an early-morning motorcycle crash on the northbound entrance ramp to state Route 711 on May 18. The report states that Mark D. Backhaus, 66, of Hitchcock Road in Boardman, was driving his 2011 ...

Woman doesn’t know how she got stab wound

YOUNGSTOWN — A woman reported being stabbed in her abdomen while setting traps for feral kittens near a wooded area on the East Side but does not know how she got the stab wound. Officers were called to the ESA apartments in the area of 600 Kendis Circle at 2:08 a.m. Tuesday for a woman ...

Man arraigned three years later in 2022 kidnapping case

YOUNGSTOWN — Bond was set at $750,000 Tuesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court when Terrance A. “Andy” Machen, 35, of Youngstown, was arraigned on two counts of kidnapping, two counts of felonious assault and one count of aggravated robbery — more than three years after he failed ...

Sheetz construction gets closer in Cornersburg

YOUNGSTOWN — Demolition work at the former Rite Aid at 3525 Canfield Road in Cornersburg will begin in late summer or early fall to prepare the property for construction of a Sheetz convenience store. The company, founded in Altoona, Pa., confirmed the schedule Monday. A Mahoning County ...