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Philip Beshara, former president of B&B Construction & Development Inc., on Tuesday was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison.

Staff photo / R. Michael Semple Youngstown Mayor Jamael Tito Brown and his supporters at election headquarters on Belmont Avenue stay fired up as they awaited Tuesday’s election results. Brown secured the Democratic primary nomination for his seat over challengers Ryan Kelly and Councilman Julius Oliver, D-1st. He faces Republican Tracey WInbush and several independent challengers in November. YOUNGSTOWN – Mayor Jamael Tito Brown had it much easier this time in the Democratic primary for his re-election than in the past. Meanwhile, Tom Hetrick defeated incumbent DeMaine Kitchen in a wr...

YOUNGSTOWN — If incumbent Youngstown council President DeMaine Kitchen would have been successful in collecting 50 valid signatures on his nominating petitions, there wouldn’t be a contested Democratic primary for his seat. But because of that failure, Kitchen, who’s in his first four-year term as president, is running in an unusual race against two other candidates — all as write-ins. His two challengers in the May 4 Democratic primary are Tom Hetrick, a nutrition educator for Mercy Health-Youngstown and a former neighborhood planner for the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp....

YOUNGSTOWN — With Youngstown Council President DeMaine Kitchen having to run as a write-in candidate, he will be among four seeking the seat in the Democratic primary for the job. In addition to Kitchen, who is serving his first four-year term as council president, the three other write-ins are Christopher N. Travers, Thomas Hetrick and Lee David Pupio. The three all filed by Monday’s deadline. The candidate with the most write-in votes during the May 3 primary will be the Democratic nominee for the position. Kitchen of Struthers Liberty Road was the only candidate to file nominating peti...

State now says David Bozanich must complete his prison sentence.