NEW YORK (AP) — Don Schlitz, the storied country music songwriter known for such hits as “The Gambler,” “On the Other Hand” and “Forever and Ever, Amen,” died Thursday at a Nashville hospital. He was 73. The cause of death was not immediately known. A press release from the ...

FOWLER — Lynne A. Novisky, 72, passed away Monday evening, April 13, 2026, at St. Joseph Warren Hospital. Lynne was born on June 28, 1953, in Youngstown, a daughter of the late Glenn and Ruth Smith. She was a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School, where she was the valedictorian of her ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Robert Sean Harris, aka “Indian,” 58, sadly passed away on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. He was born on Nov. 24, 1967, the sixth child born to James and Helen Sanchez Harris, and spent his whole life as a Youngstown West Sider. Sean was a self-made man owning his own masonry ...

JOHN WRIGHT, 59, of Warren, died Tuesday in Mineral Ridge. (Arabugh-Pearce-Greenisen)

PAMELA CURRAN, 74, Stuthers. SERVICES: 11 a.m. Saturday, First Covenant Church, Youngstown. CALLING HOURS: 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, Clemente Funeral Home, Struthers, and 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday, church. ANTHONY J. D’APOLITO, 79, Ocala, Florida. SERVICES: noon Saturday, Greenford Christian Church, ...

TIFFIN — George Arthur Freeman, 94, of Tiffin, passed away on Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Tiffin. He was born on March 25, 1932, in Youngstown, to Arthur J. and Virginia O. Watt Freeman. George graduated in 1950 from Struthers High School, near Youngstown. George then went to Heidelberg ...