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Mixer for the media
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Mahoning Valley Professional 20/30 Club will hold a mixer featuring members of the media at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Station Square Restaurant, 4250 Belmont Ave. All young professionals are invited, but the group is focusing the mixer on people who work in all areas of the media.
NATION
US Airways proposal
ARLINGTON, Va. -- US Airways pilots would take pay cuts totaling 19.5 percent and senior officers could lose job protections under a new proposal advanced by the cash-strapped company.
The latest offer by the nation's seventh largest airline was to be discussed today by the airline pilots union's governing committee, said Jack Stephan, a spokesman for the pilots union.
Disney's CEO search
LOS ANGELES -- The Walt Disney Co. plans to have a new chief executive by June. The entertainment and media giant will include president Robert Iger as the sole current employee in its CEO search, which will also consider outside candidates to replace Michael Eisner, who is retiring in 2006.
Witness on trial
NEW YORK -- Ink expert Larry Stewart exuded confidence earlier this year as he testified against Martha Stewart. But prosecutors say Larry Stewart went too far in other parts of his testimony, and he now faces his own trial on perjury charges.
Jury selection was set to begin today, with lawyers for Martha Stewart watching the trial closely. Although she's headed to prison -- a judge on Tuesday ordered her to surrender for her five-month sentence by Oct. 8 -- the charges against Larry Stewart will continue to figure prominently in her appeal.
From Vindicator staff and wire reports