LIBERTY — Police officials are looking to keep their promise to use the township’s 2.5-mill levy, which the community passed in May, to help with police staffing by bringing in some new faces. Township officials saw three new police officers join the department’s ranks on Monday, ...
Motorists nationwide continue to struggle with higher-than-normal gas prices, but the drain on pocketbooks is lessening, according to Monday’s AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. Gas prices are 32 cents lower in northeast Ohio this week at $4.144 per gallon. A year ago, a gallon of gas cost an average of $3.064. The prices throughout the Valley varied, according to AAA. The average price of unleaded self-serve gasoline Monday in Niles was $3.782 per gallon and $4.080 in Youngstown. Along a stretch of Mahoning Avenue, from Warren to Champion, prices ranged Monday from $3.53 to ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Simply Slavic, Ohio’s premier celebration of Slavic culture and heritage, has completed its first project funded through the Simply Slavic Cultural Preservation Fund, a component fund of the Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley. The project is the restoration and replacement of the entrance signage at the historic Strossmayer Croatian Picnic Grounds in Vienna. The project involved the fabrication and installation of a new entrance for the center, replacing aging signage that had deteriorated after years of exposure to the elements. The improvements were ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Fears about rising antisemitism, community safety and growing political division dominated a town hall Thursday as members of the Ohio Jewish Caucus met with local residents at the Jewish Community Center in Youngstown. The Youngstown Area Jewish Federation and the Ohio Jewish Caucus co-hosted an hour-long town hall panel discussion on various issues affecting the Jewish community Thursday at the Jewish Community Center. The panel included four of the six members of the Ohio Jewish Caucus: members Sen. Casey Weinstein of Hudson in Summit County, Minority Whip Rep. ...
WARREN — It was in 2006 when Warren native Jamelia West and her three young children were found murdered in Columbus, and now 20 years later local organizations and West’s family and friends will continue to remember them as a lilac tree was planted Sunday at the corner of Highland Avenue ...
Ohio logged 1.16 million felony charges across all 88 counties over the past decade with 404,988 people involved. In the Mahoning Valley, 50,293 felony charges were filed in that time span, involving 21,104 individuals. That crime data and much more can be found on a new online dashboard launched Friday by outgoing Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost. Yost said the new database provides unprecedented transparency into felony crime and sentencing trends across Ohio. “This data has countless applications, whether it’s helping families understand community safety or guiding ...
