ORCHID: To newly appointed Youngstown police Chief Sharon Cole and to newly appointed Youngstown fire Chief Courtney Kelly for their well deserved promotions that further shatter the glass ceiling for women reaching the top in safety-service leadership roles in the Mahoning Valley. Cole has ...

By all accounts, bloody violence inside many of Ohio’s public and private prison walls has intensified out of control in recent years. In Youngstown, the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center has logged more than 15 inmate stabbings — including at least one such fatal attack — since the ...

’Tis the season. No, not that season. It’s the season for end-of-year lists.Time magazine, which, like so much in print journalism has suffered from a loss of readers, has published its annual list called the “most influential people of 2025.” The list includes “Artists, Innovators, ...

“Just FYI if you’re seeing the news right now, I’m totally safe,” a son enrolled at Brown University texted me. “I’ve been home for a few hours now and wasn’t there when stuff started to happen. Seems to be some crazy shooting near Brown.” What?! I turned on CNN and saw the ...

“Does anyone know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours?” — Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023) “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” As we learn more about the events on Sept. 2, 2025, in international waters 1,500 miles from the United States, the ...

Trump gave what was billed as a “Christmas speech” in rural Pennsylvania last week that began with his “wishing each and every one of you a very merry Christmas, happy New Year, all of that stuff” and boasting that now, under his presidency, “everybody’s saying ‘merry Christmas’ ...