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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 ...

49ers owner Jed York arrested in East Palestine

EAST PALESTINE —— San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York was arrested over the weekend and pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and possessing criminal tools. York was arrested Sunday in East Palestine and was released after posting a $5,000 bond. He was sentenced to one day in jail for both offenses to be served concurrently and was credited with one day served when he pleaded no contest Monday morning. He also was fined $1,150. Court records show that York initially was charged with engaging in prostitution, but prosecutors amended that to disorderly ...

Valley veteran served in the Army’s police force in the 1970s

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. ...

Watson will start season opener for Browns

BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Deshaun Watson has won the competition to be the Cleveland Browns starting quarterback for the Sept. 13 opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars, a person familiar with the move told The Associated Press on Monday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because coach ...

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 ...

Watkins: Enact death penalty punishment for child rapists

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 ...