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Year of the Quarterback, Part 4: Iowa State coach Matt Campbell wrestles the portal beast
Former Stark County star Matt Campbell deals with transfer portal as Iowa State football coach. "Year of the Quarterback" series continues with input from Notre Dame, Iowa State coaches and College Football Hall of Fame coaches. Editor's note: Steve Doerschuk spent months researching quarterbacks. The result is three waves of...
Man found shot along Southern Boulevard
A wounded man is hospitalized following an overnight shooting on Youngstown’s Southside. Police say they found the victim along Southern Boulevard near East Philadelphia Avenue at around 1 a.m. Friday. The hospital’s trauma team went to work on the victim who was last reported to be in stable condition....
Beautiful weekend, gradual warm-up
High pressure will build east across the Great Lakes. A northwesterly flow of pleasant air will prevail. Temperatures will only reach the low 80s, after a week of heat and humidity. Lows tonight will fall into the comfortable upper 50s and low 60s.
Local press club takes stand on US reporter convicted in Russia
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – The Youngstown Press Club is denouncing Friday’s verdict against American journalist Evan Gershkovich. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was convicted Friday of espionage and sentenced to 16 years in a maximum-security prison on charges that his employer and the U.S. government have rejected as fabricated.
Eastern Stark land transfers: Louisville homes sell for more than $300,000
Three Louisville homes were sold for more than $300,000, according to the latest property transfers from the Stark County Auditor’s Office. The homes are part of the Orchard Park development in the city, which includes streets named after varieties of apples. Among them are Gala Road NE, Honeycrisp Drive NE, Fuji Road NE and Golden Apple Drive NE. ...
Ohio sees uptick in unemployment rate, lost jobs in June
COLUMBUS, Ohio — New economic data from the state shows that Ohio saw an uptick in its unemployment rate, and that it lost jobs in the month of June. Ohio lost 2,300 jobs during June from the revised May estimate, dropping the total employment to 5,652,900 jobs, according to figures released Friday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The state also did not add as many jobs in May as previously thought.
The key to talking about mental health: ‘Make sure people feel comfortable.’
Chris Hopper said his leadership in mental health education began in 2018, when a colleague gave a moving speech at an event about losing his father to suicide. Knowing that the construction industry has a high rate of suicide, Hopper, executive vice president and general manager of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee for Skanska USA, partnered with the Lindner Center of Hope. The Ohio-based mental health facility helped Hopper implement the Start the Conversation program, in an attempt to remove the stigma from sensitive topics on the jobsite.
RCX Sports Creates Non-profit Organization for Youth Athletics
RCX Sports has announced the launch of the RCX Sports Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing, promoting and implementing diversity and inclusion initiatives in youth sports with a focus on expanding opportunities for all children to experience athletics in a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment. Key initiatives will include...
Rural Hardin County schools join voucher lawsuit
Jul. 19—KENTON — Hardin County superintendents fear Ohio's next budget crisis will force lawmakers to choose between funding public schools and the state's private-school voucher system. The county's six public school districts — Ada, Kenton, Hardin Northern, Upper Scioto, Ridgemont and Riverdale — came together earlier this year to join the coalition of public schools suing the EdChoice ...
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