Salem Bible Methodist Church, 1647 N. Ellsworth Ave., will host the Penn View Choir & Symphonic Ensemble at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. For information call Rev. David Crosley at 812-675-1549. (Submitted photo)

YOUNGSTOWN — The WKBN 27 Caring for Our Community campaign has named the winners of the  2026 Tom Holden Memorial Scholarship contest. A total of 230 students from Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana, and Mercer counties wrote commercials for local nonprofit organizations. The winning script ...

The Calcutta Rotary Club met Thursday at the Peter Metrovich Community Center. St. Clair Township Chief of Police Brian McKenzie was the guest speaker. McKenzie spoke about the challenges his department is currently seeing as well as the upcoming police levy in St. Clair Township. Pictured with ...

COLUMBIANA (WKBN) — The Columbiana Police Department has issued an alert for a missing 84-year-old woman. Shirley Johns drove away from her Columbiana residence at noon Tuesday and hasn't returned. She is white, 5 feet and 5 inches tall, weighs 155 pounds and has blonde hair and green ...

LISBON —A former Columbiana County substitute teacher and paraprofessional accused of possessing videos depicting minors engaged in sex acts is on his way to prison for more than eight and a half years after facing sentencing Monday. John M. McFarland, 43, Chesapeake, Va., formerly ...

EAST LIVERPOOL – The East Liverpool Community Improvement Corporation (CIC) voted during Thursday’s full board meeting to allow the East Liverpool Flag Football League to use CIC owned property on Maryland Avenue for practice. The property is at 500 Maryland, which is the former site of ...

LISBON — A pretrial was set at 9:15 a.m. June 22 for Erin M. McGuire, the woman accused of threatening to blow up the Leetonia K-12 school in January. McGuire, 37, Chestnut Street, Leetonia, had her case transferred back to Columbiana County Municipal Court after the county Grand Jury ...

SALEM — The downtown committee discussed potentially revising a long-time restriction of the city’s Designated Outdoor Refreshment Area (DORA) ahead of its pending renewal. First approved by the city council in 2019, the DORA allows people to purchase alcohol from a participating bar or ...

LISBON — A jury trial remains set June 2 in the aggravated murder case against Daniel C. Whitley for the May 2025 shooting death of James Powell, but with another status hearing set for 1:40 p.m. May 8. Whitley, 34, Wilbert Avenue, East Liverpool, appeared in the custody of Columbiana ...

The May 5 primary ballot has nothing but renewal tax levies for Mahoning County voters. Schools, townships and villages will have renewals before their voters, and everyone will decide on a county sales tax renewal. The Mahoning County sales tax renewal is for a 0.25%, five-year sales and ...