Youngstown News

ANDERSONVILLE PRISON TOPIC OF PROGRAM: The Kinsman Historical Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. today at the Kinsman Presbyterian Church parlor, 6383 Church St., with guest speaker James Carnes of Mercer, Pa.

Friends of drug overdose victim Christine M. Sheesley told a jury Tuesday that she was eager to shoot up heroin on her 17th birthday and even used $50 of her birthday money to buy the drugs that killed her.

Police were contacted by a customer early Tuesday morning about a possible break-in at a local video rental store.

James D. Maderitz, 81, passed away Monday evening, May 13, 2013, at St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown surrounded by his loving family.

Jurors seated Monday in a manslaughter trial will have to hear testimony from two friends of a Girard teen who died last year of a heroin overdose before determining the role of a Youngstown man charged with the female's death.

On Saturday, a man shot two women at a home before using the gun to kill himself.

Police said 37-year-old Joseph Vanderpool was found dead on his front porch early Sunday.

Susan was born on July 30, 1951, the daughter of Frank A. and Linda Sirbuly Csiszar, in Niles, where she lived throughout her childhood and teenage years.

Saluting the Mahoning Valley's law enforcement for their contributions to helping those in the community was the theme this year for the 11th annual Alliance for Congregational Transformation Influencing our Neighborhoods banquet, which also recognized Habitat for Humanity for its efforts to help others.

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The office of Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, has issued the following news release: U.S. Sen.

The organizers of the annual Big Tap In have decided to host another beer festival this September in Boardman focusing on firkins and fall seasonal brews.

Members of a local veterans group showed up in force Thursday to watch a Hubbard man plead not guilty to desecrating the grave of a military veteran.

SANDUSKY, Ohio - Tune in to 21 News at 11 p.m. as reporter Matt Stone rides Cedar Point's latest addition to the rollercoaster family.

The first executive order will launch competitions for three Manufacturing Innovation Institutes, partnerships focused on developing manufacturing technologies, and will call on Congress to set aside $1 billion for the creation of 15 such institutes modeled off a pilot program in Youngstown, Ohio.

The woman accused of leading police on a high-speed chase and crash that claimed the life of one police officer and injured another has waived her extradition hearing.

Voters in Youngstown, Ohio, yesterday rejected a proposal to ban hydraulic fracturing in the city.

The Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown are accepting applications for their June intern/volunteer program.

Lois J. Irons, 89, North Cross Street, Columbiana, was southbound on state Route 164 in Fairfield Township at 12:15 p.m. Saturday and an unknown vehicle was westbound and failed to stop for a stop sign and was struck by Irons.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Youngstown State University faculty, students and the community got an opportunity to meet the second of three candidates who could become the university's next president.

COLUMBUS: Voters were weighing a proposal Tuesday to ban hydraulic fracturing in a northeast Ohio city where disposal of wastewater from the drilling method led to earthquakes and alleged groundwater contamination.