More than $300,000 in Ohio Arts Council grants are coming to Mahoning County. Nineteen grants totaling $314,687, about $20,000 more than last year, will go to 19 recipients. They are among more than 1,000 grants totaling $23,196,364 the OAC announced Wednesday. Seven of those grants will ...
YOUNGSTOWN — On certain occasions, neighborhood-stabilization and blight-remediation efforts, along with efforts to improve overall quality of life, feature a 15-foot rectangular hole filled with a large load of stones. “It badly needs to be done,” Mary Krupa, 70, said. Krupa was ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Ancient mummy DNA recovered in Chile has yielded the firmest evidence yet that European colonization brought smallpox to the Americas. Smallpox was one of the deadliest diseases in human history before it was eradicated in 1980, largely thanks to vaccination. For centuries, the virus had killed about one-third of the people it infected and left most survivors with deep and sometimes disfiguring scars. Outbreaks struck Asia and Europe and eventually spread to the Americas, where colonial writings, administrative records and missionary reports documented how it killed ...
The Mahoning Valley’s unemployment rate rose in June, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. Trumbull County had a rate of 4.1% in May and 5% in June. The city of Warren saw its 5.9% rate in May swell to 7.1% last month. Mahoning County’s 3.8% unemployment rate for May hit 4.6% in June. Youngstown’s rate bounced from 5.3% in May to 6.5% in June, according to the state. The rates have not been seasonally adjusted. They also do not reflect people who are not part of the labor force. The Youngstown-Warren-Salem statistical area has a population of ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that a deal has been reached for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw its forces from Gaza, but many hurdles, conditions and long timelines remained to wind down the war in the Palestinian territory. Neither Hamas nor Israel gave immediate indication that they had agreed. The White House announcement comes nine months after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire was signed. Negotiations between Israel and Hamas had largely deadlocked over the implementation of its second phase, including the disarmament of Hamas and the reconstruction of ...
Hubbard WHAT: Board of Education meeting July 21 PRESENT: Anna Martin, William Cummings, Josh Barr, Donald Newell and Amanda O’Neill. The board: • Approved the reemployment of Raymond W. Soloman as superintendent effective Aug. 1, 2027, through July 31, 2032, under the same terms and conditions as his current employment contract. • Accepted the following donations: $2,000 from Hubbard Rebounders to the Athletic Department/Hudl Service; $2,000 from Hubbard Soccer Boosters to the Athletic Department/Hudl Service; $1,000 from Hubbard Touchdown Club to the Athletic ...
