Youngstown News

FOCUSING ON THE ARTS: The Howland Library Branch, 9095 E. Market St., will hold "Focus on Art: Portraits" at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.

Kaiba Gionfriddo plays with his mother April outside his Youngstown, Ohio home on Tuesday.

ATS 2013, PHILADELPHIA More than 40 percent of patients being treated for COPD at a federally funded clinic did not have the disease, researchers found after evaluating the patients with spirometry, the diagnostic "gold standard" for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

The raid happened in back in March. The Norwalk Reflector reports authorities found an active meth lab in the apartment of Allen Mobberly, 32.

We have an update to a car accident we reported on Thursday. It happened on State Route 199 at Eagleville Road.

Police made regular crime runs to the Cleveland street where three women were held captive in a house over a decade before escaping.

According to New Yorker writer George Packer, there used to be a kind of deal among Americans - a deal in which everyone had a place.

The department, in conjunction with the Sebring and Smith Township police departments, will participate in the Click It and Win campaign Monday through June 2 in which anyone stopped and found wearing their seatbelt will receive a coupon to Charlie Staples Restaurant in Youngstown.

Hamline senior Becky Culp already has three All-American honors on her resume, but wants two more - and could possible add an NCAA title to it, too.

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.