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Mahoning auditor advances property-tax distributions

By DAN POMPILI Staff writer YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County Auditor Ralph Meacham announced efforts on Monday to ease the impact of delayed property tax bills and warn residents about a tax relief scam targeting seniors. Meacham said his office is advancing second-half property tax revenue to local governments, because of delays caused by legislative changes that affect second-half property tax calculations. Mahoning County’s software vendor, which serves both the county auditor’s and treasurer’s offices, is updating the system to account for the new tax credits before tax bills ...

McDonald board sued over Sunshine Law allegations

MCDONALD — A Portage County man has filed a lawsuit against the McDonald Local School District Board of Education, claiming the board violated the state’s Sunshine Laws with how it conducts its meetings. The complaint by Brian Ames, filed Monday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court, claims that the board conducted executive sessions for unapproved purposes in meetings between Jan. 27, 2025, and Feb. 18, 2026, and that the matter stated as the session’s purpose was not specifically approved by Ohio Revised Code 121.22(G). That particular portion of ORC 121.22, which sets what ...

WRTA bus crashes in Youngstown

YOUNGSTOWN —- Youngstown police said two people in a sport utility vehicle and others on the WRTA bus were taken to the hospital after a crash at Gibson Street and Cameron Avenue shortly after noon Tuesday. Four passengers and a driver were on board the bus. Police said everyone in both ...

Beloit siblings win top awards at Ohio State Fair

BELOIT — Two West Branch Local School District students won prestigious prizes at the recent Ohio State Fair in Columbus. Zayden Wooten, 13, who will be an eighth grader at West Branch this year, was named Southdown Breed Champion in the Junior Market Lamb Show on July 29. For junior ...

Boy taken to JJC after Safehouse facility attack

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown police took a boy to the detention facility at the Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center following a Monday morning attack in a room at a Safehouse Residential Services facility on Eastview Avenue off Jacobs Road on the city’s East Side. A Youngstown police report states that officers were called to the facility at 9:39 a.m. Monday for an assault and spoke with staff members and an administrator who said the boy entered another child’s room, despite it being locked. The boy bypassed the lock by using a plastic comb, the report states. The boy then ...

Head of scheme that stole millions to be sentenced

SALEM — Shreyas Baldevbhai Chaudhary, 25, who is from the Republic of India, will be sentenced at 10 a.m. Thursday in U.S. District Court in Cleveland for his role in a three-person scheme that stole millions of dollars from older adults across the United States, including a 77-year-old Salem man. Prosecutors are recommending that he get about eight to 10 years in prison. They say he was the person who directed the scheme. One of his co-conspirators, Trusha Chaudhary, who is not related to Shreyas Baldevbhai Chaudhary, will be sentenced for her role in the scheme at 3 p.m. today. ...