Farris’s OAM project

Farris’s OAM project

YOUNGSTOWN

Farris Marketing completed a large and complex website project for the Ohio Association of Magistrates, which represents the interests of more than 500 magistrates in Ohio. Farris designed a new database-driven website for OAM with many capabilities including searchable profiles of all Ohio magistrates. The new site is at www.ohiomagistrates.org.

Husted recognizes Phantom Fireworks

COLUMBUS

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted named Phantom Fireworks as a recognized company in his Ohio Business Profile program this month. A representative will present the business with a commendation from Husted today at Phantom Fireworks, 1260 N. Meridian Road, Youngstown.

Grant to Meridian

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Foundation has awarded a $20,000 grant to Meridian HealthCare that will provide a portion of the funding for a five-year plan to upgrade security systems at 11 of Meridian’s locations.

Among these 11 locations are residential, two-year transitional and permanent housing facilities. Clients at these facilities include recovery drug or alcohol addicts, homeless veterans, individuals and families who have been homeless, adults with chronic mental illness or HIV/AIDS and low-income senior citizens.

Home sales increase

COLUMBUS

The number of homes sold across Ohio in June increased 9.3 percent from the level posted during the month a year ago, the market’s 10th-consecutive monthly year-over-year gain, according to the Ohio Association of Realtors.

Additionally, home-sales activity in June rose 1.8 percent from the level reached May 2015.

Shell gets permits for limited oil drilling

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA

The Obama administration has given Royal Dutch Shell PLC approval to begin limited exploratory oil drilling off Alaska’s northwest coast. The two permits issued Wednesday clear the way for drilling in Chukchi Sea, but with conditions.

Shell can only drill the top sections of wells because the company doesn’t have critical emergency-response equipment on site to cap a well in case of a leak. That equipment is aboard a ship headed to Portland, Ore., for repairs.

Ikea: Affix dressers to wall for safety

NEW YORK

A year after Ikea chests tipped over and fatally injured two boys, the Swedish furniture giant and safety regulators say consumers should keep the furniture – 27 million chests and dressers – away from children unless the products are mounted to a wall.

Ikea is offering a free kit to help consumers affix the furniture to a wall. The kit will be available to people who bought chests and dressers above specific heights, including 7 million of Ikea’s Malm chests.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says it’s the largest U.S. recall in Ikea’s history and also the largest recall of chests and dressers.

Staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Aqua America, .61, 25.18 0.03

Avalon Holdings,2.11-0.14

Clear Channel, .46 22.00 -0.55

Cortland Bancorp, 13.50-0.25

Farmers Nat., .128.27 0.11

First Energy, 1.44, 33.280

Fifth/Third, .5221.630.11

FirstMerit Corp., .64,20.820.27

First Niles Financial, .32,9.550

FNB Corp., .48,14.520.12

General Motors, 1.2030.23-0.16

General Electric, .88,26.59-0.26

Huntington Bank, .20, 11.620.04

JP Morgan Chase, 1.60,69.950.85

Key Corp, .26,15.320.28

LaFarge, 16.83 -0.32

Macy’s, 1.25, 71.920.25

Parker Hannifin, 1.92, 111.54-0.53

PNC, 1.92,99.720.52

RTI Intl. Metals,28.41-0.55

Simon Prop. Grp.,5.20,182.390.63

Stoneridge 11.18 -0.12

Talmer Bank, 17.690.13

United Comm. Fin., .04 5.06-0.03

Selected prices at 4 p.m. Wednesday. Provided by Stifel. Not to be construed as an offer or recommendation to buy or sell any security.