Youngstown Local News

Poland students promote eco-friendly change in "Save the Planet" challenge.

National City Bank name is disappearing as PNC signs are going up at branches around the Valley.

Latest numbers show nearly 200,000 jobs were lost in the month of October.

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty against a woman accused of hiring a friend to kill her mother.

There are nearly 2,500 unclaimed tax refund checks just for Ohioans. Nearly 900 of those checks belong to residents in Northeast Ohio.

The mother of a Cortland soldier on the base during the shootings said she's thankful he's safe but is feeling for the soldiers killed and injured during the mass shooting. Video

New owners set up shop on Youngstown Warren Road.

The crash happened on the 711 connector in Girard. One was taken to the hospital.

Warren Councilman Bob Dean is heading up a drive to supply area kids with coats this winter.

Health insurance assistance, funded by stimulus money, could be available for some dislocated workers through Trumbull County One Stop.

President Barack Obama's health care initiative has cleared its first big hurdle in the House, with lawmakers voting to advance the debate.

With the word's "let's roll," U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and relatives of United Flight 93 victims have turned shovels of dirt at a groundbreaking ceremony for a permanent national memorial at the western Pennsylvania crash site.

A man charged with killing a worker and wounding five others in the Orlando engineering firm where he once worked has been denied bond.

President Barack Obama said Saturday that the training designed to keep U.S. forces safe abroad prevented further deaths and ended the rampage at Fort Hood.

Police in Cleveland have identified another woman whose remains were discovered at the home of a suspected serial killer.

Questions about how many people the D.C. snipers killed aren't expected to end with Tuesday's execution of mastermind John Allen Muhammad.

The Navy is commissioning its newest battleship with a bow forged from steel that once held up the World Trade Center.

Members of Philadelphia's largest transit union and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority are set to vote on a contract to end the strike that has idled buses, subways and trolleys for five days.

An Army medical official says Nidal Malik Hasan has been transferred to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio as details emerge about Hasan's background.

A new national poll found that only about a third of adults who have tried to get a swine flu vaccine have been able to get it.

Israel's president has called on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to rescind his decision to stand down, invoking the memory of Yitzhak Rabin at a commemoration for the assassinated Israeli premier.

Scores of relatives of the 228 people killed in the June 1 Air France jet crash dedicated a memorial in an upscale beach neighborhood Saturday amid strong criticism that the airline has failed to provide them with the answers or compensation they were promised.

Recent arson attacks and shootings in this violence-wracked South American nation are the work of a mastermind living in the United States, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo alleged.

Britain called for consideration of a global tax on financial transactions to insure against another crisis, and urged world finance officials meeting Saturday in Scotland to agree on bearing the cost of fighting climate change.

Iranian police have detained 109 people for "disturbing public order" during an opposition rally this week, the official IRNA news agency reported Saturday.

Pushing back against international criticism, Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the top U.N. official in the country overstepped his authority by giving instructions on how to rid the government of corruption and warlords.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says that Moscow and Washington can sign a new nuclear arms control deal before year's end.

Officials say a week of torrential rain has flooded the homes of more than 200,000 people along Mexico's Gulf coast.

By saying he wants to step down as president, Mahmoud Abbas has highlighted a deep Palestinian despair rooted in decades of failed peace initiatives and fruitless violence.

Haitian senators have taken a key first step toward replacing the prime minister they ousted a week ago.