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Search continues for body of man who died when boat capsized

Search continues for body of man who died when boat capsized


FLASH BRIEFING FRIDAY

Teddy Foltz’ confessed killer claims he was railroaded into pleading to the 14-year-old’s torture and murder in 2013. “I was informed by my attorney to take the deal because we weren’t going to trial,” Zaryl G. Bush told The Vindicator. “‘Take the plea deal or you’ll never see your kids again.’” he said he was told. Bush is in year six of a 33-year to life sentence, and his new attorney is hoping 7th District Court of Appeals judges remand Bush’s conviction and felony-life sentence back to the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for a new trial. Bush claims he can produce favorable evidence that investigators failed to seek and defense attorneys failed to present to his trial court, involving a former Struthers cop who lost his job after he was found to have falsified a criminal report and withheld a witness in another case years earlier. Local and federal law- enforcement officials Thursday announced that self-proclaimed white nationalist and collector of World War II-era weaponry James P. Reardon Jr. is facing a federal charge of transmitting threatening communications via interstate commerce for threatening a mass shooting at the Jewish Community Center in Youngstown. New Middletown Chief Vincent D’Egidio said looked to be a future headline. During Thursday’s press conference at the Carl B. Stokes U.S. Courthouse in Cleveland, D’Egidio said he was thankful for the person who reported Reardon’s online conduct. Reardon remains in federal custody at the Mahoning County jail, segregated from the general jail population. He’s set for arraignment Sept. 6. Also set for arraignment today in that court is Justin Olsen, 18, of Boardman, accused threatening gun violence against federal officers online. He was arrested earlier this month and also remains in federal custody at the county jail. Raymond Briya – a key witness in the corruption cases against ex-Youngstown Mayor Charles Sammarone, former city Finance Director David Bozanich and developer Dominic Marchionda – was charged in a bill of information with five felonies related to the probe. Briya, 72, a former MS Consultants Inc. chief financial officer, was charged Thursday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court with two counts of attempted bribery as well as one count each of tampering with records, grand theft and obstructing justice. All are felonies. The attempted bribery counts accuse Briya of giving more than $100,000 in cash, meals, gifts and golf benefits to Bozanich over a decade, and of giving at least $9,000 in cash to Sammarone “with purpose to corrupt” them in their official positions with Youngstown. Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday if Lordstown Motors Corp. can purchase the idled General Motors complex, the state will provide a strong incentive package to help the company. DeWine said Thursday that Lordstown Motors is “a viable company. I think it can work, but they’ve got to raise the money from the private sector.”The company needs about $300 million to $500 million to buy, retrofit and operate the Lordstown facility to produce electronic vehicles. “We made it very clear that we’re going to be very, very open and very generous,” DeWine said. “We’re going to do everything we can to facilitate this." T After nearly four decades, Alfreda “Frieda” Anderson Martin is stepping away from the landmark jazz bar downtown Youngstown that bears her name. But she’s leaving it in good hands. Martin has sold Frieda’s to Howard Howell, leader of Howard and the Point Five Band, which has played at the bar hundreds of times – almost every weekend for years. The deal was final on Aug. 10. Judge Peter Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court approved a preliminary injunction Thursday ordering the Niles-based natural-gas provider One Source Energy to “immediately” stop offering new service to customers. It currently serves about 118 customers in the Southington area. The order came after the Ohio Attorney General’s office filed a request Aug. 22 for a temporary restraining order and “further order” asking for such action. It also followed a hearing Thursday morning before Judge Kontos. The attorney general’s filing says One Source continues to operate despite never having PUCO authorization to do so and continues to solicit new customers “in direct violation of a Commission directive.” Boardman Township is holding tightly to its reputation as a retail hub despite residents’ concerns more development contributes to flooding issues. After the devastating May 28 rainfall, some affected residents advocated for a moratorium on new township development. But, if anything, plans for development have ramped up – even though sales tax goes to Mahoning County, not the township. A 157,000-square-foot Meijer store, a 7.64-acre plot of land north of Rulli Bros. on South Avenue was recently purchased by RCJR Holdings Ltd., Sheetz will take the place of the former fire station at the corner of Southern Boulevard and Route 224, and Mission BBQ is being built across the street from Chik-Fil-A on Route 224. Trustees have assured residents the effect on flooding will be neutral, because incoming businesses will be required to include stormwater retention. . Read more about these and other stories in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com


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Youngstown Developmental Center has $1.5 million proposal

Several agencies could repopulate the formerly state-run mental health center in Mineral Ridge, which closed in June 2017


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Construction, traffic snarl first day of YSU classes

Traffic was worse than usual for YSU’s opening day due to the Fifth Avenue waterline replacement project


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Suspect ordered to stay away from internet and guns

Suspect in shooting threat ordered to stay off the internet and away from guns


Census figures show economic gap narrows with citizenship

Census figures show economic gap narrows with citizenship


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Lordstown legislation would limit tax abatements

Two Lordstown council members sponsor legislation limiting tax abatements


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‘Consummate child predator’ eligible for parole

Prosecutor opposes parole for music store owner who raped boys


Police investigating Boardman scam

Police investigating Boardman scam


Brand-name drug prices rising at slower pace, lower amounts

Brand-name drug prices rising at slower pace, lower amounts


Planned Parenthood leaves federal family planning program

Planned Parenthood leaves federal family planning program


AP College football poll: Clemson No. 1

AP College football poll: Clemson No. 1


No surprise: Ryan Day names Fields OSU starting QB

No surprise: Ryan Day names Fields OSU starting QB


Traffic fatality in North Lima

Traffic fatality in North Lima


Prosecutor: Ohio priest charged with raping boy 20 years ago

Prosecutor: Ohio priest charged with raping boy 20 years ago


Warren apologizes for heritage claim, woos Native Americans

Warren apologizes for heritage claim, woos Native Americans


Boardman Civil Service Commission meets Tuesday afternoon

Boardman Civil Service Commission meets Tuesday afternoon


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JCC THREATS | Bond set for Reardon during hearing

JCC THREATS | Media, Reardon family members gather for hearing


Majority of economists: US recession by end of 2021

Majority of economists: US recession by end of 2021


Mill Creek Park cop finds AK-47 assault rifle during traffic stop

Mill Creek Park cop finds AK-47 assault rifle during traffic stop


US prisons chief removed after Epstein’s death

US prisons chief removed after Epstein’s death


UPDATE | NYPD fires officer for 2014 death of Eric Garner

NYPD fires officer in choking case


Lockup List Monday — Mahoning County jail bookings, releases

Mahoning County Sheriff's Activity


Tech and financial stocks help drive US stocks higher

Tech and financial stocks help drive US stocks higher


Many Warren weekend police reports in involve menacing

Many Warren weekend police reports in involve menacing


Fire destroys vacant North Side house

Fire destroys vacant North Side house


YSU students face construction traffic on first day

YSU students construction traffic on first day


Plan set up to repopulate Youngstown Developmental Center

Plan set up to repopulate Youngstown Developmental Center


Trans-Siberian Orchestra coming to Covelli Centre

Trans-Siberian Orchestra coming to Covelli Centre


Old Dominion coming to Covelli Centre

Old Dominion coming to Covelli Centre


UPDATE | Man pleads guilty in 2016 Youngstown homicide

Jury selection underway in 2016 murder trial


Rodney Carrington coming to Packard Music hall

Rodney Carrington coming to Packard hall


US gives Huawei a 90-day reprieve on technology trade ban

US gives Huawei a 90-day reprieve on technology trade ban


Elderly couple, 8 firefighters injured in Pa. house fire

Elderly couple, 8 firefighters injured in Pa. house fire


Defense in buried newborn case wants trial moved from county

Defense in buried newborn case wants trial moved from county


10 Things to Know for Today

10 Things to Know for Today


UPDATE | Youngstown homicide victim ID'ed

Youngstown homicide victim ID'ed


Youngstown traffic stops down

Community Police Unit also down three officers


Liberty planning on applying to Clean Ohio grant

Liberty wants to preserve Little Squaw Creek


Clevinger, Indians tame Yanks

Clevinger struck out 10 in five shutout innings


Ohio must crack down on foreclosure predators

Editorial: Columbus Dispatch: Among the hard lessons of the Great Recession was that people lose their homes to


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Pluchinsky, Robertson claim Greatest Golfer titles

It was Pluchinsky’s third open title and fourth overall


IS claims bombing at Kabul wedding that killed 63

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Miocic stops Cormier, reclaims UFC title

Stipe Miocic waited over a year to face Daniel Cormier again


Wildlife roam where US once forged its deadliest weapons

Associated Press DENVER From a tiny Pacific island to a leafy Indiana forest, a handful of sites


El Paso shooter got his cues from immigrants in the United States

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Native tongues must be saved

Opinion: By Danny Tyree Cagle Cartoons “Took away our native tongue/And taught their English to our young


Agenda Tuesday

Agenda Tuesday Coitsville Township trustees, informational meeting regarding the future of the


Steelers honor Drake, keep Chiefs in check

The shirts read “shut out the noise.”


SPORTS digest

Scrappers sweep doubleheader NILES The Mahoning Valley Scrappers blanked the Batavia Muckdogs in


TV & RADIO

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The radicalization of James Reardon Jr.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Reporter Graig Graziosi had met and interviewed James Reardon Jr. on multiple


ON THE LINKS Sunday’s professional golf results

PGA TOUR Thomas wins BMW Championship, takes No. 1 seed Medinah, Ill. Justin Thomas had more


MiLB

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‘Miracle house’ in Ohio draws pilgrims amid sainthood push

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Inside the ropes with … Jason Kokrak

Inside the ropes with … Jason Kokrak Sunday: The Warren JFK graduate shot a 69 to finish the BMW


Star Supply owner had an eye for items people wanted or needed

Kids of late owner reflect on their dad


MLB BOX SCORES

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Big-league Bucs lose in Little League town

Jose Quintana pitched seven crisp innings, Anthony Rizzo hit a two-run homer and the Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates


Police keep low profile at Hong Kong protest

Associated Press HONG KONG Hong Kong streets were turned into rivers of umbrellas Sunday as


Leaked memos warn of food, drug shortages in Brexit chaos

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Dobbins says he’s best back in nation

Despite running for 1,053 yards and 10 touchdowns, J.K. Dobbins says last season was a frustrating personal failure


politics Trump dismisses worries of recession

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Power weathers conditions at Pocono

Will Power won the shortened race Sunday at Pocono Raceway


Rabid raccoon found in Boardman Township

Staff report AUSTINTOWN A raccoon found in southwest Boardman Township has tested positive for


Youngstown St. Andrewes AME Church celebrates sesquicentennial

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Trumbull and Mahoning counties hard hit after storms move through area

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PREPS

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Citizens Police Academy training

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