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3 decertified candidates get spots on Nov. ballot

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YOUNGSTOWN — Nine potential candidates asked the Mahoning County Board of Elections to reconsider decisions to not certify them with three of them put on the Nov. 4 ballot after enough valid signatures were found on their nominating petitions. The board had nine reconsideration hearings ...

NEOCC prison inmate killed in stabbing

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YOUNGSTOWN — An inmate at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center on Hubbard Road was stabbed to death and other inmates were injured in an 6:25 p.m. altercation Sunday. Elsewhere in the city, one other person was stabbed over the long holiday weekend and two people suffered gunshot ...

City man gets two years for stabbing

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YOUNGSTOWN — A Youngstown man will miss the birth of his child and serve two years in prison for stabbing another man during a fight. Luis Deleon Otero, 30, was sentenced Tuesday morning by Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Maureen Sweeney on one count of felonious assault, a ...

Locals eye 7th District Court of Appeals seats

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YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County Court Judge Molly Johnson filed to run next year for a 7th District Court of Appeals seat with David “Chip” Comstock Jr., a longtime attorney and Western Reserve Joint Fire District chief, planning to seek the other appeals seat on the 2026 ballot. Both are ...

Youngstown committee approves facade grant

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YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s design review committee recommended the approval of a facade grant for improvements and additions to a parking lot on South Avenue, even though one member anticipates space issues. The committee recommended the grant’s approval to the Western Reserve Chapter of ...

YPD: Hospital shooting was suicide

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YOUNGSTOWN — The shooting incident that occurred Thursday morning in the emergency room at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital was a suicide, according to a news release from Youngstown police Capt. Jason Simon. The release states that a man, 33, disarmed a Mercy Health police officer who was ...