×

News

Austintown PD offers enticements to boost staff

Local News

AUSTINTOWN — The township has a new plan to restore the police department to adequate staffing levels. In an emergency meeting on Thursday, trustees approved a memorandum of understanding between the Austintown Police Department and FOP Lodge 126, representing the township’s sworn police ...

Judge orders Youngstown to restore fired officer to old job

Local News

YOUNGSTOWN — A judge upheld an arbitrator’s decision that Youngstown must reinstate Brian Flynn, fired as a police lieutenant in December 2022 after being accused of dereliction of duty, with back pay and interest. In her Thursday decision, Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen ...

Former Hubbard safety chief calls proposed fire move ‘insane’

Local News

HUBBARD — A former public official took to the podium during a regular city council meeting to offer his take on why potentially moving the Eagle Joint Fire District outside the city would be detrimental. Robert Paternity, a part-time city police officer and a former public safety ...

Boardman man indicted in August incidents

Local News

YOUNGSTOWN — Caden Moffo, 20, of Beechwood Drive in Boardman, was indicted Thursday on abduction and two counts of misdemeanor domestic violence for incidents Aug. 4 in Youngstown and Boardman. If he is convicted of abduction, Moffo could get several years in prison. The kidnapping charge ...

Man accused of assaulting, stealing from ‘friend’ charged

Local News

YOUNGSTOWN — Terry Pompay, 43, who was accused of hitting a man he knew in the face with a wine bottle and taking his backpack and bicycle Wednesday night, was charged Friday morning with robbery and was set for arraignment later Friday in Youngstown Municipal Court. The victim, who had a ...

Man found not guilty in 1905 murder

Local News

120 Years Ago, 1905 transcribed as originally published in the Youngstown Vindicator: “Harbison is a free man. Verdict was not guilty. The jurors spent almost nine hours in deliberation. Nerve of a stoic displayed by the prisoner when the finding was read. He will leave the city. Declares he ...