Tax-day mixer

Tax-day mixer

AUSTINTOWN

The Mahoning Valley Mainstreet Chamber will celebrate tax day today with a social and networking mixer at Jay Jay’s Roadhouse, 4626 Mahoning Ave.

The 6 p.m. event will coincide with a fundraising effort to purchase materials for the Junior Achievement program for Austintown Middle School’s sixth grade.

Ribbon-cutting set

BOARDMAN

Dan Coulter, vice president of Best Choice Cabinetry Outlet, and the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber will host a ribbon-cutting at the company’s new showroom at 230 Boardman-Canfield Road at 10 a.m. Friday.

Best Choice Cabinetry Outlet features all-wood cabinetry, laminate, quartz and granite countertops, sinks, faucets and ceramic tile.

Showroom hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 1 to 7 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The store is closed Sundays.

Report presses for e-cigarette rules

RICHMOND, Va.

Concerns about electronic cigarettes, including flavors and marketing that could appeal to young people, underscore the need to regulate the fast-growing industry, according to a Congressional report released Monday.

The report written by the staff of Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, California Rep. Henry Waxman and others highlights several issues including the lack of age restrictions and no uniform warning labels for the battery-powered devices that heat a liquid nicotine solution and create vapor that’s inhaled.

Though the Food and Drug Administration plans to set marketing and product regulations for electronic cigarettes in the near future, for now, almost anything goes. A 2009 law gave the FDA the power to regulate a number of aspects of tobacco marketing and manufacturing, though it cannot ban nicotine or cigarettes outright. The agency first said it planned to assert authority over e-cigarettes in 2011 but hasn’t yet. The proposed FDA regulation was submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for review in October.

Study: Online data theft on the rise

NEW YORK

The number of Americans who say they’ve had important personal information stolen online is on the rise, according to a Pew Research Center report released Monday.

According to the survey conducted in January, 18 percent of online adults have had personal information stolen such as their Social Security number, credit card or bank-account information. That’s up from 11 percent in a July 2013 Pew survey.

The number of adults who had an online account compromised or taken over without their permission — such as email or social media — remained flat at 21 percent.

The survey was done after news broke of Target Corp.’s massive pre-Christmas data breach but well before last week’s discovery of the “Heartbleed” bug, which has caused widespread worry across the Internet.

Vindicator staff/wire reports