Youngstown Local News

Ohio health officials, who call the virus outbreak a pandemic, claim they see enough numbers to support their actions so far.

School districts across the Valley have been vaccinating children all month. But those at higher risk from the virus in Pa. can get inoculated this weekend.

A Korean newspaper is reporting that General Motors in Lordstown could be getting another car to build, along with the Chevrolet Cruze next year.

One of the first items to go in tight police department budgets is DARE -- it's considered expendable. But local experts said it's needed now more than ever.

After a rash of break-ins throughout the Valley over the last few months, police have a few tips to prevent further break-ins.

A federal appeals court is pushing Kenneth Biros to say why his lawsuit opposing lethal injection in Ohio shouldn't be dismissed.

The owner of a Youngstown grocery store avoids falling victim to a pair of robbers.

An investigation suggests that the state is too tolerant of domestic violence.

A western Pennsylvania woman has been ordered to stand trial on charges she passed a drug-filled balloon to a state prison inmate while kissing him.

Santa made his arrival in a fire department rescue boat.

An attorney for the Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood says his client will have his first court hearing in his hospital room on Saturday.

Prosecutors say they'll drop manslaughter charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide contractors charged in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting.

An attorney for a condemned killer says Ohio's new lethal-injection plan is so untested it would amount to human experimentation if used for the first time next month.

The ringleader of a group of men convicted of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices has been sentenced to 13½ years in prison.

In a sharp improvement, more than half of U.S. states added jobs in October, though economists said many of the gains likely occurred in temporary employment.

The star herself was not on board, but one of Miley Cyrus' tour buses overturned on a highway in Virginia this morning.

Health officials say swine flu cases appear to declining throughout most of the U.S., but the specter of Thanksgiving gatherings next week makes it hard to predict what will happen next.

The FBI has dispatched investigators to Arkansas to look into a police officer's use of a stun gun on a 10-year-old girl who refused to take a shower.

An air taxi with eight people aboard made an emergency landing on tundra when the engine failed near Alaska's Bering Sea coast.

A military experiment is under way to try to predict who's most at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Yemen's coast guard says Somali pirates have hijacked a Panamanian cargo ship in the treacherous Gulf of Aden between the Arabian peninsula and the Horn of Africa.

The World Health Organization says it is investigating samples of mutated swine flu found in two Norwegians who died of the virus and one person who suffered severe illness.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Kremlin policies Friday and toyed with the ambitious idea of attempting a political comeback.

A United Nations committee has approved a resolution urging Iran to stop harassing political opponents in the wake of disputed presidential elections.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone parliamentary and presidential elections that had been set for January.

Iran plans to launch a communications satellite by late 2011 with no outside help, a top Iranian official said Friday, after Italy and Russia declined to put it into orbit.

Italian prosecutors have begun their closing arguments in the trial of an American student accused of killing her British roommate.

CIA director Leon Panetta is in Pakistan meeting with the country's prime minister today, as intelligence officials describe another suspected U.S. missile strike against insurgent targets in the country's northwest.

Sixteen people are dead after a suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a busy city square in western Afghanistan.

A South Korean official says a gunman has opened fire on the island of Saipan, killing four people before fatally shooting himself.