AUSTINTOWN — Not every police chase involves a subject in an automobile. Austintown officers got a taste of what an exciting Monday evening might have looked like in the days of founders Calvin Austin and John McCollum. Their quarry was not a suspicious character in a sedan but rather a ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Will A. Jones, 60, pleaded guilty recently in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to 14 counts of aggravated arson and was sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison. Jones set fires to three homes containing 14 people Nov. 22 and 23 not far from each other on the city’s South ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Work is ongoing at a long-vacant building near the Youngstown State University campus to open under the Pogo’s Pub name, which was used several years ago. The city’s design review committee on Tuesday approved requested exterior improvements to 214 W. Rayen Ave., where the ...

AUSTINTOWN — Police may have the advantage in a cold case after receiving a state grant. On Monday, the Austintown Police Department informed trustees that it had received a $24,900 Ohio Violent Crime Reduction Genetic Genealogy Grant from the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services. Lt. ...

COLUMBUS — The Mahoning Valley has become the hot spot in Ohio for human trafficking arrests, according to a new report from state Attorney General Dave Yost. The report, titled “The Drivers of Demand” and commissioned by Yost, provides a first-ever look at sex buyers arrested in Ohio ...

LORDSTOWN — Saying they want to be prepared in case a business seeks a permit that would utilize small mobile reactors or battery energy storage systems, village council on Monday approved a 180-day moratorium on such permits. Council approved first readings of two motions for the moratorium ...