YOUNGSTOWN — Magistrate Dennis Sarisky of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court has awarded compensatory damages of $50 and noneconomic damages of $30,000 to a woman who filed a civil suit against her stepfather, Tommy Christmas of Boardman, alleging Christmas sexually abused her as a ...

HUBBARD — With the school year at its halfway point, the Hubbard Board of Education heard updates on a curriculum adopted last year. At last week’s regular board meeting, Hubbard Elementary Principal Shawn Marcello and K-8 Assistant Principal Sarah Herrholtz presented residents and ...

Both the Public Library of Youngstown-Mahoning County and the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library will delay opening until 11 a.m. today due to the extreme cold temperatures. The Youngstown library and its branches will also open at 11 a.m. Saturday. Closings will be at regular scheduled ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Some lawmakers in the West Virginia Senate want to put copies of the first Bible printed in revolutionary America in certain classrooms, but an effort by others to amend the bill to include the Catholic Bible failed. Senate Bill 388, requiring public elementary or ...

YOUNGSTOWN — With temperatures dipping below zero and wind chills even lower, SOBE Thermal Energy Systems LLC’s 28 customers in downtown Youngstown were without heat and hot water because the beleaguered utility had to shut down its boiler. SOBE informed its customers, who make up most of ...

Legislation introduced by state Rep. David Thomas would make it easier for larger townships to become cities with the Republican who represents portions of Trumbull County saying he’s talked with officials in Austintown, Boardman, Howland and Liberty about the bill. “A township government ...