Youngstown News

Tuesday was a lucky day for Herman "Pete" Starks. The Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol stopped by his Youngstown home.

Youngstown Police Detectives recover more than $40,000.00 in stolen tobacco products.

Capt. Robert Kane, who served more than 10 years as chief of detectives at the Youngstown Police Department, died of cancer Monday in Hospice House, Beaver Township.

YOUNGSTOWN a ' A man who faces a capital murder trial next year in a double homicide pleaded guilty today to drug charges from an earlier indictment.

Two 18-year-old men armed with handguns are arrested after allegedly robbing a local business at gunpoint.

YOUNGSTOWN a ' The Ohio Department of Public Safety has awarded $42,935 in federal traffic safety funds to the city police department for the federal fiscal year that began Oct.

A Youngstown man accused of killing a 19 year old man in 2007 pleas guilty in court today.

YOUNGSTOWN a ' A city man was robbed of $400 and his 1990 Cadillac sedan DeVille while parked at the Valley View Gas Mart, 1564 Mahoning Ave., at 6:16 p.m. Sunday.

The city school district is hoping to get more than $1.7 million worth of telecommunications services next fiscal year for just $342,000. That's the rough estimate that Genie Natale, the district's director of educational technology, gave the school board's finance committee Wednesday.

A Youngstown company is being honored for developing an aluminum can that is being used around the country.

Nail by nail, board by board, volunteers are building the third Habitat for Humanity house in Youngstown this year.

It was a scary Saturday morning for employees at a Taco Bell in Youngstown. A gunman walked into the Taco Bell restaurant on Market Street just after it opened Saturday morning, and demanded to be given the money from the registers.

Youngstown, Ohio - Des Moines played catch-up Friday but came up one goal short in a 5-4 loss to Youngstown in the U.S. Hockey League.

Over the years, Youngstown has been called some nasty names like murder town U.S.A. But a local business is getting some positive national recognition.

A local tavern was raided Thursday following a six-month investigation. The Riverbend Tavern on Poland Avenue was raided by the Mahoning Valley Task Force following several undercover drug buys.

A Friday morning crash in Youngstown claims the life on person. Police say the crash happened at the intersection of Market Street and Falls Avenue.

A community group in Youngstown is happy. That's because the city of Youngstown has kept it's promise to demolish a vacant building on the north side.

The rescue of Montagnard civilians and many other positive stories about the Vietnam War are chronicled in a book, "Privileges of War," a first-hand account of the war written in 1969 by Thomas A. Ross, who was a lieutenant assigned to Operational "A" Team, Detachment A-502, with the 5th Special Forces Group in South Vietnam.

The Covelli Centre in Youngstown was rockin' Wednesday night with a former American Idol star.

YOUNGSTOWN a ' A man accused of hitting a cyclist who later died will likely be heading to prison for about four years.