NEW YORK — Baseball owners proposed banning high school players from signing with major league teams, raising the age for international amateurs and slashing the money spent on signing bonuses in negotiations Thursday for a new collective bargaining agreement. The amateur draft for players ...
WASHINGTON — A bill that top lawmakers and athletic leaders have described as the best chance to stabilize college sports cleared a key vote in the Senate on Thursday with bipartisan support after weeks of input from schools, conferences and athletes. The bipartisan Protect College Sports Act aims to regulate payments to players, limit them to one free transfer over their careers and create a rule to restrict coaches from changing jobs during a season. It advanced out of the Senate Commerce Committee on a 19-9 vote and now heads to the full Senate for consideration. Thursday’s vote ...
WARREN TOWNSHIP — Troopers with the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Warren Post are investigating a fatal, two-vehicle crash at the intersection of U.S. 422 westbound and state Route 5 around 9:40 a.m. Wednesday. A preliminary investigation revealed that a 2020 Hyundai Santa Fe, driven by ...
Approximately 4,700 First Energy customers are without power in Howland and Bazetta townships as of 11:25 a.m. Thursday according to First Energy’s outage website. The company said repair crews are being sent to the area. No cause has been provided. Power is expected to be restored by 2:30 p.m.
WARREN — Mary Ann Franklin, a 99-year-old community leader whose decades of volunteer work transformed city neighborhoods, received a proclamation and the key to the city Wednesday from Mayor Doug Franklin as the city prepares to mark Juneteenth. The mayor proclaimed June 19, which is ...
WARREN — Ashaud Johnson, 19, was sentenced Wednesday to 31 years to life in prison in the Feb. 11 shooting death of Da’Mar McKinney, 17, of Youngstown, by firing about a dozen times with an automatic handgun into the parking lot of the Packard House Apartments on Mahoning Avenue where he ...
