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Flying High grads overcome turbulence, launch careers

YOUNGSTOWN — One of the Valley’s unique schools celebrated its newest graduates Thursday. The Professional Development Center, a division of Flying HIGH Inc., honored 37 individuals, including an inaugural class of five students from Valley Christian School. The students graduated with ...

$16M targeted to Mahoning Valley projects

Mahoning County would receive $13,178,601 from the state’s capital budget, with about $10.7 million going to Youngstown State University, while Trumbull County would get $3,022,500 under the spending plan approved by the Ohio Senate. Not including YSU, Mahoning would get $2,471,079 for ...

Teen victim of Youngstown’s latest homicide identified

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County Coroner’s Office has identified Ty-Ron Perry Jr., 16, as the boy who was shot to death early May 27 at a home in the 900 block of East Dewey Avenue. A coroner’s office news release states that the coroner’s office was notified at 1:52 a.m. May 27 ...

Ex-FirstEnergy execs reindicted in $60M Ohio bribery case

COLUMBUS — A grand jury has reindicted two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives whose initial prosecutions in the state’s long-running $60 million bribery scandal ended in mistrial earlier this year, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced Thursday. Yost, a Republican, joined Summit ...

Speaker focuses on fossils found in Ohio

WARREN — Just how abundant fossils are in Ohio, and what types of ancient animal and plant life inhabited Ohio were the topics of a presentation by Carrie Schweitzer, a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Kent State University, on Wednesday at the Warren-Trumbull County Public ...

Canfield updated on major water leak

CANFIELD — There was not a lot of old or new business conducted at Wednesday’s brief city council meeting, but council members were updated on a major water leak at Sawmill and Herbert roads. “We are trying to fix it ourselves,” Public Works Superintendent John Rapp said. He said the leak is coming from a 33-year-old line. The line’s fittings are old and rotted and are a challenge to replace and repair. “We may have to do a temporary shutdown of the water line at some point, but it would only be temporary,” he said. Turning to the city’s sewer system, Rapp ...