Staff report COLUMBUS — The Ohio Attorney General’s Office rejected the summary language for a proposed statewide voter referendum aimed at repealing Senate Bill 56, which authorizes many changes to the state’s medical and adult-use marijuana laws. The Attorney General’s Office ...

YOUNGSTOWN — As she scanned her audience, Cryshanna Jackson Leftwich was pleased to see diversity staring back at her. “We are bonded by similar exclusions by American society,” Jackson Leftwich, a Youngstown State University professor of politics and international relations, ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The attorneys for Kenneth L. Carter, 35, and Terry Hopkins, 23, called two Youngstown police officers to the witness stand Thursday as the final witnesses of Carter and Hopkins’ murder trial to raise questions about whether officers followed proper protocols when handling ...

CANFIELD — The Canfield Board of Education meeting on Wednesday began with the official swearing in of newly elected and reelected board members. The oath of office was administered by Mahoning County Probate Judge Robert Rusu, who is a Canfield graduate himself. Jill DeRamo and Katie Elford ...

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee approved a bill, sponsored by Congressman Dave Joyce, that targets theft, fraud and other organized crimes against retail stores and various parts of the country’s supply chain. The committee approved the bill Tuesday by a unanimous consent voice vote, ...

CANFIELD TOWNSHIP — Public Works Foreman Bob Burkett talked Tuesday about the five-day snowstorm two weeks ago and how the road department suffered a series of setbacks during it. “Truck 204 broke down early during the storm,” Burkett said. “One of our drivers got the flu, our loader ...