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Child injured after being struck by Warren firetruck

WARREN — A 10-year-old child was taken to the hospital Sunday with potentially serious injuries after he rode his bike through an intersection and was struck by a city firetruck. According to the crash report narrative, the firetruck was northbound on Nevada Avenue, entering the intersection of it and Union Street. At the same time, the boy was westbound on Union and traveled through the stop sign without stopping or slowing down — leading the firetruck to hit him and cause minor damage to both vehicles. The boy was found to be at fault and was issued a failure to stop ...

Press club to honor trailblazing Tribune publisher

Helen Hart Hurlbert, longtime publisher of The Tribune Chronicle and trailblazing American female media executive, will be inducted into the Youngstown Press Club Hall of Fame this fall. Hurlbert, known affectionately for decades as “The Boss Lady,” will be among eight 2026 HOF inductees at the press club’s Hall of Fame and Awards Dinner at 5 p.m. Sept. 23 at Stambaugh Auditorium in Youngstown. Hurlbert, who died in 1987 at 94 after more than 50 years at the newspaper, will be one of three inductees in the club’s new media pioneers category. Elise Skolnick, president of the ...

Girard advances data center moratorium

GIRARD — The city is the latest community in the Mahoning Valley wanting to place a moratorium on data centers, with city council giving second reading Monday to legislation putting a one-year moratorium in place. Final reading on the legislation is scheduled for the July 13 meeting, after which the moratorium will immediately take effect. Councilwoman Lily Martuccio, D-at Large, said the moratorium will allow for council and the administration to have more time to study the impact data centers will have on the community. Martuccio said once the moratorium is in place, it will ...

Kicks from ’76

HUBBARD — A lot happened in the United States in 50 years. There were three wars in the Middle East, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, the USA Men’s Olympic Hockey team won a gold medal in the “Miracle on Ice” and, again, 46 years later, while the Women’s Hockey Team won three ...

Data center ban fails to make fall ballot

A proposed constitutional amendment to ban all large-scale data centers in Ohio will not be on this fall’s general election ballot as organizers of the campaign had hoped. Conserve Ohio, the group sponsoring the campaign, has failed to gather the required 413,000 valid signatures on petitions to qualify for the Nov. 3 ballot. It now plans to place the issue on the fall 2027 ballot. In a statement released last week, Conserve Ohio representatives said, “The July 1 deadline was our best case scenario for the quickest possible action. Internally, we set that as our ideal target, and ...

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan dies at 100

WASHINGTON — Alan Greenspan, the jazz-playing U.S. Federal Reserve chair who was celebrated for engineering a decade of prosperity but later shared the blame for a devastating financial crisis, died Monday. He was 100. Greenspan died from complications of Parkinson's disease, said his wife ...