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Boy taken to JJC after Safehouse facility attack

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown police took a boy to the detention facility at the Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center following a Monday morning attack in a room at a Safehouse Residential Services facility on Eastview Avenue off Jacobs Road on the city’s East Side. A Youngstown police report states that officers were called to the facility at 9:39 a.m. Monday for an assault and spoke with staff members and an administrator who said the boy entered another child’s room, despite it being locked. The boy bypassed the lock by using a plastic comb, the report states. The boy then ...

ICE officers plan to use electric-shock gloves

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals. ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction and de-escalation ...

Agenda

• MAHONING COUNTY COMMISSIONERS will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday for the board meeting at the commissioners hearing room at the county courthouse basement and at 11 a.m. for the staff meeting at the commissioners conference room at the administration building. • WESTERN RESERVE BOARD OF EDUCATION will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday at the K-12 cafeteria.

Boy, 6, dies after being shot Monday afternoon in Youngstown

YOUNGSTOWN — A 6-year-old boy died after being found shot inside a home in the 500 block of Plum Street on the near West Side Monday afternoon. The Youngstown Police Department issued a press release Tuesday morning stating that police were called to the home at 4:09 p.m. for a shooting. When they arrived, they found the boy shot inside a bedroom and began life-saving measures until paramedics arrived. The child was transported to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the release states. Youngstown police detectives and its crime scene unit were called to ...

Wisconsin and Minnesota primaries next to feature progressive clash with Democratic establishment

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Progressive candidates for governor in Wisconsin and U.S. Senate in Minnesota are making their final pushes ahead of Tuesday’s election, increasing the pressure on a Democratic establishment that has spent the year on its heels. The primaries come a week after Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s divisive and costly U.S. Senate primary. El-Sayed’s victory has energized the left while stoking fears among Democratic Party leaders that the shift to the left, particularly in battleground states like Michigan and Wisconsin, will make ...

Getting their ducks in a row

STRUTHERS — The Struthers Rotary Club unleashed 1,500 rubber ducks Saturday at Yellow Creek Park for its 16th annual event. “Everybody can buy a duck for only $5,” said Ryan Goist, former Rotary Club president. “We drop a bunch of rubber ducks down here in Yellow Creek. The winner of ...