radioNOVO News for New Castle/Youngstown/Butler/Hermitage 07-27-26

Good morning.Criminal charges against an off-duty Hermitage police officer accused of intentionally ramming a vehicle have been sent to a higher court. Thirty-six-year-old Derek Jeziorkowski faces formal arraignment in Mercer County on September twenty-second. State police say Jeziorkowski chased down a vehicle in West Salem Township, used a pit maneuver to force it off the road into a utility pole where it flipped, and then told the occupants, "This is what happens when you mess with my kid."Newly uncovered internal emails show Youngstown city leaders have spent the past year quietly pursuing a multibillion-dollar data center project on the city's east side, despite publicly downplaying the talks to avoid local pushback.And in New Castle, the state Office of Open Records has ruled that the New Castle Public Library is not subject to Pennsylvania's Right-To-Know laws, a decision that is now being appealed in Lawrence County court.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.