NILES — The annual police vs. fire department softball game became a battle between Trumbull and Mahoning counties Saturday at 717 Credit Union Field at Eastwood with the Youngstown Fire Department winning the day. A game between the Warren fire and police departments was followed by a ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Undoubtedly, the most daunting and frightening aspect of receiving a breast cancer diagnosis for Terri McCollum could be found in what she didn’t experience. “I get a mammogram yearly, and it showed no signs. It didn’t show until it was pretty large,” McCollum, of ...
CANFIELD — Mark Yoder pulled two tours of duty in Germany during the 1970s, and he continues serving as a member of American Legion Post 177 in Canfield and as a member of the local funeral Honor Guard. Yoder was born at Salem Hospital and his family later moved to Canfield where he attended kindergarten through his sophomore year of high school. His family then moved to Arizona, where he graduated from Sahuaro High School in Tucson in 1974. Before graduation, he began his military career. “I joined the Army in February of 1974 under a delayed enlistment program,” Yoder said. ...
WARREN — An 18-year-old Warren man has been charged after shooting at two police officers in May. D’Andre Douglas of Warren was indicted by a Trumbull County grand jury Thursday on two counts of first-degree attempted murder, two-second degree felony counts of felonious assault with three-year firearm specifications and fourth-degree felony charges of carrying concealed weapons and improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle. The charges stem from a May 15 officer-involved shooting at a dead-end corner of Charles Avenue SE in Warren. A portion of the street was blocked off ...
WARREN — A July 2026 Pew Research poll found that 68% of U.S. adults consider the death penalty justified for those who commit murder, but Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins says it appears Warren-area people think Warren killer Danny Lee Hill and Warren rapist Felicia Beemer deserve the most severe punishment possible, including the death penalty. Hill and Beemer have been in the news recently, Hill because of an appeals court ruling denying him another chance to argue intellectual disability to erase his death sentence for killing 12-year-old Raymond Fife in 1985, and Beemer ...
Amy Acton, the Democratic nominee for governor, said she will issue three executive orders on her first day in office, if elected, that would crack down on corruption. The orders would be limited to what the governor controls in state government, which is wide-ranging, but doesn’t include the other executive branch offices — attorney general, auditor, secretary of state and treasurer — or the state Legislature or Ohio Supreme Court. Acton said: “It’s time to put the needs of working families over the wants of billionaires, corporations and special interests. As governor, I ...
