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Weathersfield nixes plan for training center

WEATHERSFIELD — Township trustees have decided that because of high construction costs, they will no longer proceed with building a multi-jurisdictional education workforce development training center at the park off state Route 46. Trustees at their meeting Tuesday passed a resolution ...

Dow leaps 1,100 points and S&P 500 rallies 3.3%

NEW YORK — Stocks rallied Monday after China and the United States announced a 90-day truce in their trade war. Each of the world’s two largest economies agreed to take down temporarily most of its tariffs against the other, which economists had warned could start a recession and create ...

Judge to ponder explosion ruling

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County Probate Court Judge Robert Rusu Jr. twice told the attorneys in his courtroom Monday it was their burden to convince him that he should seal the records related to the dollar amounts of the settlement reached between the family of Akil Drake and the defendants ...

High court hears city’s wrongful death appeal

Attorneys for Youngstown and the executor of an estate seeking as much as $5 million from the city in a wrongful death lawsuit argued the case in front of the Ohio Supreme Court, which will decide if two lower courts correctly ruled the municipality is not immune from liability. The core ...

Chief of police in Liberty to retire

LIBERTY — The township’s police department will navigate 2026 with a new police chief. Police Chief Toby Meloro confirmed at Monday’s regular trustees meeting that he plans to retire at the end of 2025, after 33 years with the township and two with the Youngstown Police Department. ...

Educational service center picks new superintendent

NILES — The Trumbull County Educational Service Center governing board on Monday named Robert Marino as the new superintendent of the center effective Aug. 1. Marino, who has served since 2010 as the assistant superintendent / director of curriculum and instruction of the center, will ...