Application deadline

Application deadline

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Applications for the Leadership Mahoning Valley Class of 2015-16 will be accepted through Friday.

The program provides adult community leaders with an overview of the Mahoning Valley, an opportunity for increased understanding of key community issues and the chance to develop working relationships with civic leaders.

The nine-month program includes nine monthly day-sessions.

A selection committee composed of Leadership Mahoning Valley members will review all applications received by Friday. Up to 40 participants will be selected.

The tuition fee of $2,000 covers all program costs, including meals, admission fees and program supplies. Selected applicants will be billed for tuition. Applications may be requested by email at karen@regionalchamber.com or by phone at 330-744-2131, ext. 41 .

Cortland dividend

CORTLAND

Cortland Bancorp, the holding company for Cortland Savings and Banking Co., announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.06 per share. The dividend will be payable on or after June 1 to shareholders of record May 12.

GM death toll hits 90

DETROIT

The death toll from General Motors’ defective ignition switches rose from 87 to 90 last week, according to the weekly update from the compensation fund established to pay victims.

The GM Ignition Compensation Fund has 997 claims yet to review out of 4,342 filed since the company and disaster-compensation specialist Ken Feinberg established the fund last August.

Last week, the automaker raised the amount set aside for the cost of the fund by $150 million to $550 million. So far, the fund’s staff has deemed 33 percent of the claims ineligible for compensation either because there was insufficient documentation or the claimants failed to prove that the ignition switch was the primary cause of someone’s injury or death.

GM said last week it expects the compensation fund’s process to be concluded by the end of September.

Expert: Other officers fired shots after chase

CLEVELAND

At least one other officer discharged a weapon during the final salvo fired by a Cleveland police officer who is on trial on charges of voluntary manslaughter for shooting two unarmed suspects after a high-speed chase, a sound expert hired by the defense testified Monday.

The sound expert said a dash-cam recording made by a suburban officer revealed that three other shots were fired during the four-second period when patrolman Michael Brelo, 31, stood on the hood of a beat-up car and fired his last 15 shots down through the windshield at the vehicle’s occupants. Timothy Russell, 43, and Malissa Williams, 30, were killed in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire Nov. 29, 2012, in the parking lot of a suburban elementary school where the chase ended.

Teacher hailed as hero

SEATTLE

A popular teacher being hailed as a hero for tackling a 16-year-old shooter inside a Washington state high school said he did what any other U.S. educator would do: He ran toward the gunfire instead of away from it.

Brady Olson said three other staff members reacted the same way when a student fired two shots into the air in the school commons before classes began Monday morning. No one was injured at North Thurston High School in Lacey, about 60 miles southwest of Seattle, and the shooter is in custody.

“No one, including myself, can prepare for a situation like this, so I’m very thankful that we’re all OK. As always, students come first, and today was no different,” Olson, an Advanced Placement government and civics teacher, said in a statement.

Lynch sworn in as AG

WASHINGTON

Loretta Lynch was sworn in Monday as the 83rd U.S. attorney general, the first African-American woman to serve as the nation’s top law-enforcement official.

Speaking before an audience of family members, Justice Department lawyers and supporters, Lynch said her confirmation as attorney general showed that “we can do anything” and pledged that the agency would “use justice as our compass” in confronting terrorism, cyberattacks and other threats facing the country.

Exiled government declares disaster zones

SANAA, Yemen

Yemen’s exiled government on Monday declared three areas in the country engulfed in fighting between Shiite rebels, their allies and pro-government forces as “disaster” zones, including the southern port city of Aden, and said that the past month of violence has claimed 1,000 civilian lives.

The crisis in Yemen, the Arab world’s most impoverished country, has deepened since March 26, when a Saudi-led coalition launched airstrikes aimed at rolling back territorial gains by the Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, and their allies, loyalists of ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Dead baby found on campus was born alive

NEW CONCORD, Ohio

A coroner says a newborn baby found dead on the campus of Muskingum University last week was born alive and died from asphyxiation.

The Zanesville Times Recorder says the preliminary ruling came from the Muskingum County coroner Monday.

Authorities have identified the mother as a student at the university. She was interviewed last week but hasn’t been charged.

Staff/wire reports