REGION

REGION
Bank earns less this year
CANFIELD -- Farmers National Banc Corp. earned $2.3 million in the second quarter, compared with $2.4 million in the same quarter last year. Per-share earnings were 19 cents a share in both quarters. The Canfield-based company is the parent of Farmers National Bank, which has 16 branches in the Mahoning Valley.
NATION
Technology is new focus
NEW YORK -- AT & amp;T Corp., the nation's largest long-distance company, will stop seeking new customers for its traditional consumer long-distance service, once the bedrock of the company known as Ma Bell.
The company will continue to serve its existing residential customers but will no longer pour roughly $1 billion a year into winning new ones, AT & amp;T said Thursday as it reported sharply lower profits for the second quarter.
Instead, AT & amp;T will bet its future on providing telecom and data services to business, currently 75 percent of its revenue, and selling residential customers new technologies, such as phone service over the Internet.
From Vindicator staff and wire reports