COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio utility regulators ordered Akron-based FirstEnergy on Wednesday to pay more than $250 million in fines and refunds as a result of its misconduct in a sweeping Statehouse bribery scandal whose fallout continues five years on. The punishment meted out by the Public ...

YOUNGSTOWN — With a change in administration six weeks away, city council rejected legislation to permit the board of control to enter into a contract with a marketing consultant and delayed a vote on creating the job of site development coordinator. Council voted 4-2 Wednesday against ...

YOUNGSTOWN — City council agreed to allow the board of control to spend up to $33 million for final design and construction administration on building a facility as part of its major wastewater improvement project. Council voted 6-0 Wednesday on the legislation with Councilman Julius ...

AUSTINTOWN — Another hurdle has been cleared in the township’s fight to end problems at a business along South Four Mile Run Road. Zoning Inspector Darren Crivelli said the Austintown Zoning Commission, at an Oct. 30 hearing, approved a motion to rezone three parcels on that street to ...

VIENNA — With money and manpower getting tight for smaller townships, trustees welcomed a neighboring acting chief to talk about what potentially consolidating police services would look like for them. At Monday’s trustees meeting, Trustee Mike Haddle noted residents passed a 1.1-mill ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County Coroner’s Office has identified the person who was found dead at the intersection of Belleview and East Chalmer avenues on the South Side Nov. 10 as Nicole Carbone, 37. Youngstown police were sent there at 3:29 a.m. and found the body in a vacant lot on ...