On Christmas Day 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem we now know as the song “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” Earlier in the year, Longfellow had unsuccessfully pressured his son, Charles, not to join the Union Army. On Christmas Day, Longfellow learned his beloved son had ...

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 ...

With America’s 250th birthday as an independent nation coming up in 2026, the big debate on the right this season about what it means to be an American couldn’t be more timely. Vice President JD Vance and Vivek Ramaswamy — the 2024 presidential aspirant who hopes to be elected Ohio ...

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 ...