YOUNGSTOWN — Mill Creek MetroParks Executive Director Aaron Young confirmed Wednesday that sale of the McGuffey Wildlife Preserve in Coitsville Township was on the agenda for the MetroParks board meeting Monday. The meeting never took place, however, because there were not enough board ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Four months after rejecting legislation to purchase new police vehicles, city council changed course and voted to buy them. Council voted 5-2 Wednesday on legislation to spend up to $205,000 to purchase three vehicles for its K-9 officers and 6-1 on a separate ordinance to buy ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Prosecutors said Wednesday in opening statements in the Stacie A. Gilmore kidnapping and child endangering trial that Gilmore, 51, of Youngstown used zip ties, extension cords and pipes to torture and cruelly abuse a boy starting when he was 5 years old. “This was happening ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The body of a man, later identified as George Westhead, 63, was found under a bush behind a home at 634 Almyra Ave. on the South Side on Oct. 9. Youngstown police were called there at 2:39 p.m. Oct. 9 for a dead body at a red-tagged house, meaning a house where people were no ...

The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 66, which represents the Mahoning Valley, endorsed U.S. Sen. Jon Husted, a Republican, over Democrat Sherrod Brown, whom it has previously supported. Jesse DiRenna, the IUOE Local 66 business manager, said, “The Mahoning Valley is the ...

YOUNGSTOWN — A woman remains in critical condition after she was one of four people shot late Oct. 9 on West Willis Avenue on the South Side. A Youngstown police report states that officers were called there at 10:58 p.m. for a shooting. Capt. Jason Simon of the Youngstown Police ...