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More than 71,000 seek unemployment benefits last week

Business News

Staff report Ohioans filed 4,911 initial unemployment claims the week of Feb. 15-21, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported Thursday. That number was 1,994 fewer than the previous week. Approximately 1,016 of those have been flagged to ensure they are not ...

Contractor hired for $767K resurfacing project on city roads

Local News

YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s board of control voted to hire a contractor for a resurfacing job, to pay $50,000 to its insurance company to cover the deductible and legal fees for a lawsuit settlement, and to spend $10,000 to buy two parcels at the failed Chill-Can site. The board voted 3-0 ...

Suspect in Pyatt St. shooting in court, jailed

Local News

YOUNGSTOWN — Kobe Hayden, 27, was arraigned Wednesday afternoon in Youngstown Municipal Court on two counts of felonious assault in the Sunday evening shooting of a man who was with another person in a car hit by gunfire while traveling on Pyatt Street near downtown. Magistrate Meghan ...

Trumbull commissioner opposes tax abatement for company in Warren

Local News

WARREN — An effort by a local manufacturing company to obtain a 10-year, 75% tax abatement for a $270,000 expansion of a building that will add six offices to its facilities at 3021 Sferra Ave. was delayed Wednesday after Commissioner Denny Malloy objected to the request. Charles ...