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Austintown announces bids for paving project

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AUSTINTOWN — The township is reviewing formal bids for a large-scale paving project slated to begin as soon as the weather clears. Township Administrator Mark D’Apolito opened sealed bids from six contractors at Monday’s regular trustees meeting for a roughly $1.5 million road ...

Nurse and police officer testify in Youngstown rape trial

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YOUNGSTOWN — A teen girl told a nurse at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital in June of 2019 that Dustin Ruiter raped her for the first time the previous December after she “said no, and he hit me because I said no,” according to testimony Wednesday in Ruiter’s rape trial in Mahoning ...

Health research office opens on 3rd anniversary of derailment

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EAST PALESTINE — The year 2026 continues to be a mission of rebirth for the village, as area media and dignitaries gathered Tuesday morning to mark the grand opening of its new Train Derailment Health Research Team’s office inside the Way Station building. The invitation-only event ...

Trumbull GOP to have crowded primaries in May

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The race to become the Republican nominee for Trumbull County auditor features the incumbent, Matha Yoder; former two-term state representative Mike Loychik of Bazetta and Bazetta Fiscal Officer Stacy A. Marling. Edward Stredney, an at-large councilman in Niles, is running unopposed to be the ...

Youngstown council to meet next week to discuss filling vacant seat

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YOUNGSTOWN — City council will meet Feb. 11 to start discussing how it will fill the vacant 6th Ward seat. The responsibility of filling the seat falls to city council because the Mahoning County Democratic Party is unable to have a quorum of central committee members from the ward meet to ...

Longtime Democratic judge changes her party affiliation

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WARREN — Cynthia Westcott Rice, elected five times as a judge as a Democrat, filed to run for reelection as a Republican for her seat on the Trumbull County Common Pleas Court bench. “I switched parties because (being a Republican) is where I feel comfortable,” Rice said. “I was born ...