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Benjamin A. Longo 1953-2025

AUSTINTOWN — Benjamin A. Longo, 72, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, at Hospice House. Benjamin was born Oct. 3, 1953, in Niles, a son of the late Anthony and Stella Platt Longo. He was a 1972 graduate of Niles McKinley High School and spent much of his young adult life doing what ...

Kristine Bole 1951-2025

POLAND — Kristine Mary Bole, 74, passed away Thursday. Oct. 16, 2025, with her family and loved ones at home in Poland. Kristine was born in Youngstown, in 1951, to Roy and Mary Bresser Bloomberg. She attended Struthers High School and graduated from Youngstown State University in ...

Area deaths

SHIRLEY M. PADILLA, 87, died Oct. 15 at St. Joseph Warren Hospital. There are no services. (Holeton-Yuhasz)

Services

KENNETH J. BERADUCE, 70, New Middletown. SERVICES: 11 a.m. Saturday, Davis-Becker Funeral Home, Boardman. CALLING HOURS: 10 to 10:45 a.m. Saturday, funeral home. TROOPER NICHOLAS P. CAYTON, 40, Canfield. SERVICES: 1 p.m. Wednesday, Beeghly Center, Youngstown. DOROTHY FICOCELLI, 89, McCormick, S.C. SERVICES: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Good Shepherd Catholic Church, McCormick. CALLING HOURS: 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday, church. ROSEMARIE FILIPS, 96, Struthers. SERVICES: 11 a.m. Tuesday, Christ Our Savior Parish-St. Nicholas Church, Struthers. CALLING HOURS: 10 to 10:45 a.m. Tuesday, church. ...

Serbian general convicted by UN of war crimes in Kosovo dies at 79

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Nebojsa Pavkovic, a former Serb-led Yugoslav army chief who was convicted by a U.N. court of war crimes during the war in Kosovo, has died, Serbian officials and media said Monday. He was 79. Pavkovic died in Belgrade, Serbia’s capital, less than a month after he was released from a prison in Finland where he had been serving a 22-year jail sentence for the atrocities against ethnic Albanians in the 1998-99 conflict. Pavkovic commanded the Serb-led Yugoslav army troops in Kosovo during a Serbian crackdown on separatist ethnic Albanian forces who launched a ...

Nicholas P. Cayton 1985-2025

CANFIELD — It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Trooper Nicholas P. Cayton of the Ohio State Highway Patrol on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. He went to be with the Lord after giving his life in service to the people of Ohio. Trooper Cayton served on the patrol since 2012 ...