YOUNGSTOWN — Chad R. Scofinsky, 37, of Noel Drive in Youngstown, pleaded guilty to a rape charge Wednesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court and got a recommendation from the prosecution and defense for six to nine years in prison. He will be sentenced May 28. Scofinsky was indicted on ...

YOUNGSTOWN —Keanu Shelton, 30, was arraigned Wednesday in Youngstown Municipal Court on a charge of aggravated robbery in a 6:34 p.m. Tuesday incident on Hammaker Avenue on the North Side in which he is accused of robbing a man at gunpoint and taking his cross-body satchel, which contained a ...

Ohio’s 11th District Court of Appeals earlier this week affirmed the conviction and prison sentence of convicted sex offender David Lucero, who was sentenced to an indefinite seven- to 10½-years in prison on convictions of eight counts of pandering sexually oriented matter involving a minor ...

WASHINGTONVILLE — Local police are investigating the Wednesday drowning death of a young child. A news release from the Washingtonville Police Department states that police and EMS personnel responded at about 10 a.m. to the Washingtonville Apartments in the 100 block of Chris Avenue. The ...

Largely because of the possibility of the Poland library branch’s relocation or renovation, state Sen. Al Cutrona, R-Canfield, introduced a bill that would prevent the library board of trustees from shutting down the location without approval of Mahoning County commissioners — or risk the ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The Village of Healing, which was supposed to be the anchor tenant at the former Bottom Dollar building on Glenwood Avenue, fired back at the Mayor Derrick McDowell administration, contending the latter failed to communicate with the organization, leading to it not coming to ...