The Youngstown Vindicator

07/24/2026

YOUNGSTOWN — About a year from now, Barb Ewing hopes to have additive manufacturing companies move into the new Youngstown Innovation Hub for Aerospace & Defense, located downtown in the former Vindicator building.

https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2026/07/hubbub-surrounds-groundbreaking-for-innovation-hub/

07/24/2026

A bill, sponsored by state Rep. Tex Fischer, would prohibit public officials from putting their name or likeness on any signs, markers, building exteriors or other public locations.

https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2026/07/ohio-bill-seeks-to-ban-free-ads-for-politicians/

07/24/2026

A former Warren G. Harding High School athlete was reportedly killed Wednesday in an officer-involved shooting in Indianapolis.

Staff report A former Warren G. Harding High School athlete was reportedly killed Wednesday in an officer-involved shooting in Indianapolis. Reports indicate that Dalys Jett, 21, died in the shooting after police said he had fired a gun at a group of police officers. Jett was a 2023 Harding graduate...

07/24/2026

More than two weeks after the July 5 storms, Mahoning County and local communities were still staring up a mountain. Now, a regional cleanup effort is making a big difference and even running ahead of schedule.

https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2026/07/regional-effort-speeds-up-storm-damage-cleanup/

07/24/2026

YOUNGSTOWN — Darius D. Smith, 23, of East Dewey Avenue was indicted Thursday on murder and a gun specification in the early May 27 shooting death of Ty-Ron Perry Jr., 16, of Akron in the 600 block of East Dewey Avenue on the city’s South Side.

https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2026/07/city-man-indicted-in-akron-teens-death/

07/24/2026

WARREN — “Mo’ Musky” is swimming where a giant once slept.

Warren artist Aaron Chine painted a 100-foot long, brightly colored muskellunge fish (commonly called a musky) on a retaining wall near the Mahoning River that is visible to an estimated 9,000 motorists each day driving on the Summit Street Bridge.

https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2026/07/mural-splashes-onto-rivers-shores/

07/24/2026

YOUNGSTOWN — A summer camp offered to local children by Easterseals of Northeast Ohio is not only benefiting them but the grandparents, aunts and uncles taking care of them.

https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2026/07/easterseals-camp-supports-children-and-caregivers/

07/24/2026

NILES — Trumbull County Commissioners said they have secured as many grants and other funding for a $3.4 million sanitary sewer improvement project in the Crain Drive neighborhood in Weathersfield as they could, but residents will still have to pay their share to tap into the system.

https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2026/07/grants-arp-funds-to-help-with-3-4m-weathersfield-sewer-project/

07/24/2026

Little more than two weeks since a tornado damaged homes in Canfield and straight-line winds battered Boardman, another twister touched down in the Mahoning Valley.

https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2026/07/tuesday-twister-graded-ef-0/

07/24/2026

LIBERTY — Ziba and Christina Watson of Youngstown-Hubbard Road lost about 10 trees in Tuesday night’s tornado, with two of them across their driveway.

https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2026/07/liberty-couple-loses-about-10-trees/