SALEM — The parks department will have commemorative shirts for available at department events next year as part of the city’s celebrations of the United States’ upcoming semiquincentennial. During its September meeting the parks commission discussed a proposal to commission ...

The Ohio Senate approved legislation sponsored by state Sen. Al Cutrona, R-Canfield, that requires the creation of a curriculum that teaches students in grades 6-12 to marry before having children. The “Success Sequence Curriculum” bill is a three-pronged approach that teaches students to ...

LISBON — The East Palestine school district, Columbiana school district and Columbiana County Board of Commissioners were also dismissed from the lawsuit filed over the 2023 East Palestine train derailment, apparently when the case was still in Franklin County. A recent entry in Columbiana ...

COLUMBIANA — Drug charges stemming from a Tuesday arrest on Pittsburgh Street are expected to be elevated due to being within 1,000 feet of a school. According to Columbiana Drug Task Force director Jesse Smith, members of the county sheriff’s department, Columbiana police and DTF took ...

YOUNGSTOWN — There is very little that can compare with seeing about 600 law enforcement officers lining Armed Forces Boulevard near Beeghly Center at Youngstown State University in order to salute the coffin of Nicholas Cayton as it passed by. Cayton was killed Oct. 16 when his Ohio State ...

LISBON — A federal judge recently ruled against the city of Salem in a lawsuit that challenged occupancy license rules, barring the city from enforcing sections which criminalized failure to renew an occupancy license and required an inspection. The order also prohibits the city from ...