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Valley gets election ready with voter registration drive

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The Jewish Community Relations Council of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation partnered with the League of Women Voters of Greater Youngstown to host a voter registration drive Tuesday at the Jewish Community Center as part of National Voter Registration Day. The four-hour event gave community members an opportunity to register to vote, verify their registration status, obtain absentee ballot request forms and locate their polling places. Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day was created to focus national attention on helping eligible Americans register and participate in ...

New witness may delay start of murder trial

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YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County prosecutors succeeded in convincing Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge R. Scott Krichbaum this week to hold one trial for Vincent Marbley, 61, and Eddie Winphrie, 43, instead of two trials, in the Oct. 17, 2024, murder of Reynaldo Hernandez, 24, at a home on Bott Street on Youngstown’s East Side. The aggravated murder trial is set to begin Monday. But a new issue arose in the case at the same time: Prosecutors learned that a Mahoning County jail inmate contacted law enforcement Aug. 29 to say that he had information relevant to the guilt or ...

’26 report cards show ups, downs

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A new academic year is in full swing, and districts across the Mahoning Valley are learning what leaps — or steps back — they took over the past year, as Ohio hands out its report cards. Released Tuesday morning, these assessments offer insight into how schools in the Valley are faring ...

End date sought for SOBE rate hikes

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In a filing with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, the city of Youngstown and the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel did not object to the significant emergency rate increases for downtown steam heat customers, but want the hikes to have an expiration date. If an end date isn’t set, the two entities urged the PUCO to require SOBE Thermal Systems LLC, the troubled utility company for most of downtown, to file an application for new permanent rate increases. In its joint filing, the city and the OCC wrote: “Absent an ending date for the emergency rates or a ...

Gipson wows as ‘Lady Day’

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YOUNGSTOWN — Singing like Billie Holiday may be the least of the challenges that Carla Gipson faces and triumphs over in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill.” There are plenty of songs in Lanie Robertson’s play, which continues its run at Hopewell Theatre with three performances this weekend. But Gipson essentially delivers a well-calibrated meltdown on stage in a show that takes place in a Philadelphia saloon a few months before Holiday died in 1959 at age 44 from heart failure and cirrhosis of the liver. It starts cheery enough with Holiday singing up tempo numbers such ...

Gas prices climb as crude oil rises

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Staff report Gas prices are 28 cents higher in Northeast Ohio this week at $4.228 per gallon, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline has gone up 16 cents over the past week to $4.31 as crude oil prices continue climbing. Volatility in the Strait of Hormuz has pushed crude oil back in the $100 per barrel range for the first time since July. Pump prices are currently comparable to early June. The national average is increasing during a season when gas prices typically go down due to lower gasoline demand. The average ...