YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown police and firefighters credited two bystanders for helping save a 13-year-old girl from the Mahoning River a little after midnight Wednesday after she fell from the red Peanut Bridge, which is in front of the main fire station and connects downtown to Mahoning ...

YOUNGSTOWN — With a new mayor starting next month, city council voted down a request from the current administration to create a new job in the community planning and economic development department. Council voted 5-2 Wednesday against legislation, sponsored by outgoing Mayor Jamael Tito ...

AUSTINTOWN — Steven D. Smith is the lone fatality in the Nov. 22 Phoenix House explosion. Records from the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office show that the 63-year-old man died Tuesday at Cleveland MetroHealth Hospital. He was flown there from St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital on ...

AUSTINTOWN — One man is in critical condition and another also is in the hospital after a shooting Wednesday afternoon. A news release from Austintown police Chief Valorie Delmont states that officers responded to 1001 Compass West Drive about 3 p.m. Wednesday. The release states that two ...

POLAND — Village Council held a bid opening Tuesday on several vehicles that were confiscated during police investigations or traffic stops and were being held at the village’s impound lot. Often the owners don’t want to pay the impound fees, so the village takes ownership of the ...

BOARDMAN — A local man is facing charges after allegedly breaking his ex-girlfriend’s door and threatening to do the same to her, all in front of police. Willie Bee Richardson. 40, of Youngstown, is charged with one count of domestic violence threats, a fourth-degree misdemeanor. He was ...