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Proposal to end property taxes won’t be on ballot

A proposed constitutional amendment to consider abolishing property taxes in Ohio won’t be on the Nov. 3 ballot because the group collecting signatures has again failed to get enough people to sign petitions. This is the second year in a row that the Committee to Abolish Ohio Property Taxes, also called AxOhioTax, tried to qualify for the ballot as it failed to do so in 2025. Brian Massie, a leader of the group, announced Friday on Ohio Political News, a right-wing political podcast, that not enough signatures were collected. The group had to submit petitions with 413,488 valid ...

Woman wants parole board to keep cop killer in jail

NILES — It’s been 44 years since her brother’s death, but Joanne Robbins still vividly remembers hearing the news for the first time, saying it’s something she’ll never forget. “I was in high school, I was 17 years old, and my guidance counselor came down to the band room to get ...

Manager negotiation to proceed

Newton Falls village council on Wednesday approved interim Village Manager Kathy King and Assistant Law Director Gary VanBrocklin to begin negotiations with Jeremy Shaffer to be the next village manager. The Geneva-on-the-Lake resident was one of three finalists out of 15 applicants who sought the position. The other two finalists were Wade Calhoun of Youngstown, who previously served as city manager in Canfield, and former Trumbull County engineer Randy Smith of Warren. Shaffer, who is director of human resources for the city of Wilmington, was also one of five finalists earlier ...

Ex-FirstEnergy executives reindicted in corruption scheme

COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced Thursday that a grand jury has reindicted two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives whose initial prosecutions in the state’s long-running $60 million bribery scandal ended in mistrial earlier this year. Yost, a Republican, joined ...

Trump announces $700M for coal industry

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is again seeking to boost the struggling U.S. coal industry, announcing a plan Thursday to spend nearly $700 million to support coal-fired power plants and coal exports. Trump said the administration will use authority under a Cold War-era national ...

Malloy elected Trumbull Republican chairman

WARREN — While a brand new slate of officers, led by Denny Malloy as chairman, is running the Trumbull County Republican Party, plenty of discord and infighting remain. Malloy, who lost reelection in the Republican primary for his county commissioner seat, beat Jim Dunlap, the party’s outgoing first vice chairman, 42-36 during a Thursday vote of GOP central committee members. After the win, Malloy said, “We know there’s a lot of work to do in this part, but we all have the same goal. We all want to win the Super Bowl. We’re just teams in the same division and we’re all ...