Source A gunman who opened fire at an Ohio fraternity party during last year’s Superbowl Sunday will spend the rest of his life in jail. Columbus Jones Jr was on Thursday sentenced to 92 years in prison for the shooting which happened following a heated row at the Youngstown State chapter of the Omega Psi Phi. […]
Source Police issued warrants for eight people Thursday in connection with the beatings of two Youngstown State University students in what is believed to be part of a fraternity initiation. All eight people charged face two counts each of felonious assault for the beatings of Resean Yancey, 20, and Breylon Stubbs, 22, over a period […]
Source Two men were arrested Sunday in connection with a shooting that left an Ohio university student dead and 11 other people wounded, police said. The men, 19 and 22, were arrested without incident and with help from the FBI, Youngstown Police Chief Jimmy Hughes said. Their names were not released. Neither has yet been […]
Two men involved in a dispute at a fraternity house party left the house and then returned, firing shots into the crowd early Sunday and killing Jamail Johnson, a Youngstown State University student and Omega Psi Phi member, injuring 11 other people, a police chief said. Youngstown police Chief Jimmy Hughes said the house just […]
Source Economic hard times forced the Buckeye Neighborhood Youth Center at 4211‚Ñ2 North Ave. to shut down its youth programs in 2004, but some Youngstown State University students are helping bring new life to the facility. The center did begin offering some new programming again in mid-2009, but it’s operating strictly with volunteers at this […]
Original Source The first nationally recognized and incorporated black fraternity has returned to Youngstown State University for the first time in nearly 50 years. An undergraduate chapter of Omega Psi Phi has been reintroduced to YSU through the efforts of President Steven Lemley and Vice President Garold Gipson, who head the new Zeta Gamma chapter. […]