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Serial arsonist sentenced for city fires

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YOUNGSTOWN — Will A. Jones, 60, pleaded guilty recently in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to 14 counts of aggravated arson and was sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison. Jones set fires to three homes containing 14 people Nov. 22 and 23 not far from each other on the city’s South ...

Youngstown committee OKs work to new bar

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YOUNGSTOWN — Work is ongoing at a long-vacant building near the Youngstown State University campus to open under the Pogo’s Pub name, which was used several years ago. The city’s design review committee on Tuesday approved requested exterior improvements to 214 W. Rayen Ave., where the ...

Austintown police land grant for cold case tech

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AUSTINTOWN — Police may have the advantage in a cold case after receiving a state grant. On Monday, the Austintown Police Department informed trustees that it had received a $24,900 Ohio Violent Crime Reduction Genetic Genealogy Grant from the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services. Lt. ...

Valley leads state in human-trafficking arrests

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COLUMBUS — The Mahoning Valley has become the hot spot in Ohio for human trafficking arrests, according to a new report from state Attorney General Dave Yost. The report, titled “The Drivers of Demand” and commissioned by Yost, provides a first-ever look at sex buyers arrested in Ohio ...

Man accused of illegal dumping on West Side

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YOUNGSTOWN — A man was charged with a minor misdemeanor of open dumping Monday morning after officers went to his home on South Whitney Avenue on the West Side for a dumping complaint. The report states that the officer has received multiple complaints about the man dumping items over the ...