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UNITED WAY Awards/recipients

A variety of volunteers and entities were awarded for their campaigns that helped raise more than


Births

Births St. Elizabeth boardman Christopher and Lauren Vecchione, Canfield, boy, April 12. Tesla


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Woman suffers skull fracture on violent day in Warren

A woman said a man fired a gun at her Thursday in Warren


METRO DIGEST || RoboCats pancake breakfast

RoboCats breakfast GIRARD The Girard RoboCats will have a pancake breakfast fundraiser at the


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Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor calls her primary opponent an out-of-touch liberal

Taylor says Mike DeWine wants people to believe he’s conservative, but he’s not


How Facebook ads target people

Associated Press NEW YORK If you want to tailor a Facebook ad to a single user out of its


Task force will study US Postal Service

Associated Press WASHINGTON After weeks of railing against online shopping giant Amazon,


Judge allows taped testimony of dead woman

Associated Press COLUMBUS The videotaped testimony from a woman who died two years after she was


Niles superintendent: Levy would only keep us afloat

If Niles voters approve an emergency 5.85-mill school levy May 8, the annual revenue of $1.3 million “will only keep us afloat,” Superintendent Ann Marie Thigpen said at a public forum Wednesday.


Football-playing amputee inspires students at Hubbard High

A work accident forced Brad Hurtig to adapt to life without hands.


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Taste of Struthers draws more than 400, shows off 18 vendors

The 5th annual Taste of Struthers drew more than 400 attendees and featured 18 food vendors from the city.

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United Way honors stand-outs at annual meeting

The event also included awards to a variety of volunteers and entities for their campaigns that helped raise more than $3.1 million for the agency in 2017, as well as their contributions to the community.


Shawn Hope convicted of murder, kidnapping, robbery, could get life with no parole

The jury in the Shawn Hope trial returned guilty verdicts on all counts Thursday, finding that Hope killed John P. Kellar, 41, of Niles.


YBI graduates 12 women from WE Create Program

The Youngstown Business Incubator’s Women in Entrepreneurship Program graduated 12 women from its WE Create Program on Wednesday.


Same sentence reimposed in Toney case

The 7th District Court of Appeals sent the case back to Judge Sweeney for resentencing, ruling she did not include the necessary language when she sentenced Toney on why consecutive sentences were necessary.