Breaking News

News

Clerk of courts sued for racial discrimination, retaliation and hostile work environment

Latest News

YOUNGSTOWN — A woman who contends Mahoning County Clerk of Courts Michael Ciccone fired her after she reported to the human resources department that he called her a racial slur, is suing him for racial discrimination, retaliation and having a hostile work environment. Thais Scott of Girard, a former clerk of courts’ administrator who is black, filed the lawsuit in common pleas court. Represented by attorney Corey J. Grimm, Scott is seeking back pay, lost future wages, restoration of lost benefits, emotional distress damages and damages to her professional reputation. The lawsuit ...

Author Charles Gaines, who popularized world of bodybuilding with ‘Pumping Iron,’ dies at 84

National News

NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Gaines, the author whose book and documentary “Pumping Iron” helped bring professional bodybuilding into the mainstream and introduce Arnold Schwarzenegger to the world, has died. He was 84. Gaines died Tuesday, according to Greta Gaines, the author’s daughter. She did not reveal a cause. “You always marched to your own drummer and inspired everyone around you to do the same,” she wrote in a tribute to her father. “Follow that bliss, catch that fish and kiss those lips while you can because my father was the live life to the fullest kinda ...

Five more submit letters for Austintown trustee seat

Local News

AUSTINTOWN — Several more township residents have expressed interest in the vacant seat on the Austintown Board of Trustees. Last week, the township released the names of those who submitted letters of interest to be appointed as interim trustee in the wake of Robert Santos’ resignation from the board earlier this month. At the beginning of the July 6 regular trustees meeting, Santos announced he was stepping down immediately after having accepted a position with Mahoning County as Project Manager-Capital Programs. Per Ohio law, trustees Monica Deavers and Bruce Shepas must ...

Sheetz construction gets closer in Cornersburg

Local News

YOUNGSTOWN — Demolition work at the former Rite Aid at 3525 Canfield Road in Cornersburg will begin in late summer or early fall to prepare the property for construction of a Sheetz convenience store. The company, founded in Altoona, Pa., confirmed the schedule Monday. A Mahoning County Building Department worker said the office received plans from Sheetz last week. An email to the Youngstown Zoning Department seeking confirmation it also obtained building specs had not been answered as of Tuesday afternoon. McCandless Holdings LP of Gibsonia, Pa., purchased the parcel in the ...

Agenda

Community News

• COITSVILLE TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES will meet at 6 p.m. today at the township hall for reviewing the policy book and 2026 budget. • MAHONING COUNTY COMMISSIONERS will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday at the hearing room at the county courthouse. The staff meeting will be at 11 a.m. at the conference room at the administration building. • POLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Dobbins Board Room at the administration building. • LIBERTY TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES will meet at 8 a.m. Thursday at the township administration building. • GIRARD BOARD OF EDUCATION will meet ...

Weathersfield resident loses home to fire

Local News

WEATHERSFIELD — Township fire officials are investigating the cause of a Monday house fire in the 2700 block of Anderson Morris Road that left a resident homeless. Fire crews from Weathersfield were called out Monday to the fire in a second floor bedroom and attic area of the 3.5-floor house. Fire Chief Tom Lambert said the owner was in a bedroom when she saw smoke and was able to get out of the house without injury. He said the resident — who told fire officials she had lived at the home since she was a child — was displaced, but is able to stay with relatives. Lambert said ...