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Youngstown entertainment facilities lost $484K in 2025

YOUNGSTOWN — After 16 straight years of turning a profit, the city-owned Covelli Centre, Youngstown Foundation Amphitheatre and Wean Park finished 2025 with a staggering $484,728 operating loss. It is the first year in which the downtown facilities lost money under JAC Management Group, ...

Motorcyclist shot to death on West Side

YOUNGSTOWN — A man driving a motorcycle was shot to death Tuesday on Youngstown’s West Side. A Youngstown police report states that officers were called to the intersection of North Maryland and Oakwood avenues on the West Side at 7:16 p.m. Officers were told it was a possible accident ...

Flood project headlines Ragozine’s 1st meeting

BOARDMAN — Mark Ragozine’s first meeting as township administrator seemed to have a little bit of everything. Boardman trustees covered regular business, honored a local celebrity, welcomed state legislators to discuss funding for Boardman’s biggest project, and heard from residents ...

Austintown police find body of girl, 17, inside sealed bedroom

Staff report AUSTINTOWN — A heavily redacted police report released Wednesday by Austintown police Chief Valorie Delmont sheds a little more light on the suspicious death investigation from Sunday. According to a report released Monday, an officer went to the home at 1155 S. Raccoon Road, ...

Judge: No evidence of a suicide pact in Masury murder

WARREN — Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Sean O’Brien sentenced John Zanolli, 62, of Masury, to life in prison without the possibility of parole Wednesday after a jury found Zanolli guilty of aggravated murder and abuse of a corpse. With its verdict, the jury found that John ...

Judge rules Hanni cannot intervene in federal case

YOUNGSTOWN — Only a few days after 7th District Court of Appeals Judge Mark A. Hanni filed a motion to intervene in a federal case that seeks to overturn a law requiring party affiliation for upper-court judicial candidates, the federal judge overseeing the matter rejected his ...