Loss and discovery topped Valley's 2015 news stories

YOUNGSTOWN

The Mahoning Valley is a lot of things, but 2015 showed that boring certainly isn’t one of them.

It was a year of losses: local control over the Youngstown school system, a shocking triple-fatal arson, the two-day disappearance of toddler Rainn Peterson and the resignation of the board of the St. Vincent de Paul Society after the temporary closing of its downtown dining hall.

It also was a year of discoveries: raw sewage in the rivers of Mill Creek MetroParks, the elusive Queen of Hearts, more government corruption and that Youngstown could make money and slow down traffic by issuing about 6,000 civil speeding citations.

Each of those made the top 10 news stories of 2015 as selected by the editors and staff of The Vindicator.

Read the list in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.