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Football: Youngstown State's four non conference opponents for 2025
The Youngstown State football team plays two home & two road games in their 2025 non conference schedule. The Penguins host Mercyhurst, Thursday, August 28. Its the first game between the two schools. Mercyhurst is jumping to FCS. The Penguins head to Michigan State, Saturday, September 6th and get a...
Mercy Health urges community to donate blood during one of the busiest times of the year
Summer is in full swing and so is Fourth of July travel season. With all the festivities going on, it's easy to forget the importance of giving blood. That's why Mercy Health is reminding folks in the Valley to do their part to help with the cause. Mercy Health Youngstown...
A surge of heat, humidity just before July 4th
The very comfortable air mass the Valley residents enjoyed Monday and Tuesday will be quickly overtaken by tropical air Wednesday morning. Highs will be near the 90 degree mark Wednesday with elevated dewpoints as well. While much of the day is expected to be rain-free, there may be a shower or storm around by late afternoon or early evening. The chance for an occasional shower or storm is also in the forecast for Wednesday night, especially before midnight.
Mahoning Valley Historical Society receives $1.35M from state Capital Budget
The Mahoning Valley Historical Society (MVHS) will receive a total of $1.35 million from the state of Ohio in the new biennial Capital Budget. MVHS will receive $750,000 from the One Time Strategic Community Investment Fund, and $600,000 from the 2025-2026 capital budget. These funds are part of the $3.5...
Mahoning, Trumbull courts to receive new fingerprint scanners from state grant program
Courts within Mahoning and Trumbull County will receive new fingerprint scanners from a state grant program to "bolster criminal-records systems" within the Valley. Announced in a press release from the Attorney General's Office, the state's criminal-records repository will pay for 77 new devices that courts across Ohio will use to capture defendants' fingerprints for submission to the database.
YSU Men’s Golf Announces Fall Schedule
The Youngstown State men's golf team will compete in six events across four different states from early September to mid-October during the fall portion of its 2024-25 season. Head Coach Tony Joy announced the team's complete fall schedule on Tuesday. "Our six-tournament schedule this fall will again feature great competition...
New restaurant still set to open in Downtown Youngstown
The Varsity Club is the newest restaurant set to open it's doors in Downtown Youngstown. Owner, John Rudy is currently in the middle of renovations of the newest restaurant and bar in the city, on the corner of Hazel Street and Commerce Street. With all of the uncertainty in Downtown...
State sanctions mental health center where teens put in chokeholds, slapped and abused
State authorities ordered a troubled mental health treatment center to stop accepting new teens into the facility until its problems are fixed. The 57-page state report cited 47 violations, including 16 issues with restraints of teens. For example, an employee shoved a child during a "power struggle," and another child was held in...
YSU Women’s Golf to Host Golf Outing Sept. 1
The Youngstown State women's golf program will hold a special golf outing on Sunday, Sept. 1, at Mill Creek Golf Course's North Course in Boardman, Ohio, to raise funds for the upcoming 2024-25 season. The cost is $90 per player and includes 18 holes of golf and drinks and food...
Police investigating after Youngstown barber shop shot up
Police in Youngstown are investigating after a barber shop was shot up in the city early Tuesday morning. According to the police report, the call came in just before 12:30 a.m. Tuesday reporting gunshots heard in an area of Mahoning Avenue. When police arrived, they found 12 spent shell casings outside of a barber shop in the area.
Choffin teacher pleads 'not guilty' after 100 mph chase ends in crash, power outage in Boardman
A welding instructor at Youngstown's Choffin Career Center has pleaded "not guilty" to charges filed after township police say he led officers on a pursuit through residential neighborhoods reaching 100 miles per hour and ending in a crash that knocked out power to several homes. Forty-six-year-old Patrick Prokop entered the...
Mobile Market brings groceries to displaced International Towers residents in Youngstown
Rose Carter, executive director of A.C.T.I.O.N., made sure Youngstown residents who were displaced by the Realty Tower gas explosion had access to groceries. On the first floor of the building in downtown Youngstown, there’s a Chase bank and residential apartments in the top floors of the building. The explosion...
Ohio’s public colleges receive $397 million; here’s how much is coming to Youngstown State
Ohio’s public colleges and universities will get $397 million from the state’s capital budget. The $4.2 billion budget passed Wednesday in both chambers and Gov. Mike DeWine signed the budget into law Friday morning. The capital money is going toward things such as basic renovations, HVAC upgrades, restroom...
Penguin City co-owner Aspasia Lyras-Bernacki appointed to Ohio Craft Brewers Association
The Ohio Craft Brewers Association elected seven new representatives to the board of directors. They include Aspasia Lyras-Bernacki, co-owner of Penguin City Brewing Company in Youngstown. The association highlighted the new electees and their roles in a press release on June 26. Who is on the new board?. Jason Moore...
Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown to temporarily display Monet painting
The Butler Institute of American Art will be temporarily displaying a painting from the famous “Nymphéas” series by Claude Monet until September. This was made possible through a loan exchange with the Dayton Art Institute where the Butler Institute traded its “Pennsylvania Coal Town” painting by Edward Hopper for the Monet painting. The Dayton Art Institute will be hosting an Edward Hopper exhibition until Sept. 8.
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