Staff report YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Foundation on Monday announced more than $1.8 million in new grants to 27 local nonprofit projects, including a new wellness center for first responders and an expansion project at the Rescue Mission of the Mahoning Valley. The foundation awarded ...

Staff report YOUNGSTOWN — Two incidents were reported Sunday night that involved fires being started in places that could possibly endanger the safety of others. At 8:04 p.m. Sunday, police were called to Homewood Avenue on the South Side for fire damage near a home. A resident of the ...

Staff report YOUNGSTOWN — A car was apparently lit on fire with a Molotov-cocktail type of device on East Warren Avenue on the South Side Monday night. A Youngstown police report states that officers were dispatched at 11:15 p.m. and found the Youngstown Fire Department tending to a ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Police Department announced late Tuesday afternoon that Stella Pittman, 94, who went missing from Youngstown’s North Side Monday night, had been found safe in Beaver Falls, Pa. She was located by the Pennsylvania State Police, Capt. Jason Simon stated in an ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Leana Woolf, sister of murder victim Ed Lewis, 53, said Monday her brother was developmentally disabled, “like a kid in an adult body,” as well as kind and generous. He also was “an Elvis lover, an old classic car fan” and “knew right from wrong.” Woolf’s family ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Mayor-elect Derrick McDowell reappointed three department heads and named DeMaine Kitchen, who resigned in 2013 as the city’s chief of staff four days before a report determined he sexually harassed a female employee, as community planning and economic development director. In ...