Ed Runyan

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County prosecutors are asking a judge to grant immunity to a witness they say is needed for the Danyo Sellers murder trial in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. Sellers, now 18, was indicted on murder, felonious assault and involuntary manslaughter in the April 15, 2023, shooting death of 15-year-old Amya Monserrat outside […]

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge R. Scott Krichbaum found all four men who went on trial this week not guilty of felonious assault in a Jan. 12 confrontation in the men’s room at Double Bogey’s Bar & Grill at the Southern Park Mall in Boardman. The trial without a jury resumed Wednesday […]

YOUNGSTOWN — The final testimony Thursday in the Mickele Glenn murder trial came from Youngstown Police detective George Anderson, explaining how he used cellphone data to identify the location of Glenn the evening Glenn is accused of killing Ed Lewis at his home on Oneta Avenue on Youngstown’s West Side. Mahoning County prosecutors introduced the […]

YOUNGSTOWN — The jury in the murder trial of Kenneth L. Carter, 35, and Terry Hopkins, 23, found both men not guilty of murder and a gun specification Tuesday morning, but found Carter guilty of improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle. Carter and Hopkins were facing a prison sentence of 18 years to life […]

CANFIELD — The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and August Mack, the consulting company helping Material Sciences Corp. clean up the damage done by a July 2024 chemical spill at its factory near Canfield High School, have provided a new summary of the cleanup to date. The summary, called a Corrective Action Framework, “is intended to […]

Addressing the behavioral health crisis in youth

YOUNGSTOWN — Axess Family Services Inc. Veteran’s Haven project at the intersection of West Warren Avenue and Hillman Street on the South Side is starting to take shape. The project may be best known for using steel shipping containers to create the frame for each of 14 veteran living units in the facility. The structure […]

Parents of murder victim deliver emotional remarks

COITSVILLE — Township officials worked to secure funding and talk with volunteers Tuesday about maintaining and expanding its newly acquired William Holmes McGuffey Wildlife Preserve, which the township obtained from Mill Creek MetroParks for $1 in May. During a morning meeting at the township hall, Trustee Phyllis Johnson provided background on how the township acquired […]

WARREN — The Ohio 11th District Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed the 2023 decision of a visiting judge in denying death row inmate Danny Lee Hill’s bid to file a second postconviction relief petition challenging his death sentence on the grounds that Hill was intellectually disabled. The ruling written by Judge John J. Eklund […]