New sushi bar opens in Boardman

New sushi bar opens in Boardman

BOARDMAN

Fushimi Sushi Bar and Restaurant, a new 4,500-square-foot restaurant at 840 Boardman-Poland Road, opened this month.

The restaurant has a traditional sushi bar and a dining area with a separate cocktail bar featuring Asian- inspired spirits. The restaurant has freshly prepared sushi, Japanese cooked fare and signature drinks.

The restaurant will have an open house from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday.

Chesapeake fined $1.4M for landslide at Pa. drilling site

HARRISBURG, Pa.

Chesapeake Energy is agreeing to a $1.4 million fine stemming from a 2011 landslide at a drilling site in southwestern Pennsylvania that damaged several streams.

The state Department of Environmental Protection said Monday that Chesapeake also had agreed to clean up the waterways by Sept. 30. It says the slide filled more than a quarter-mile of streams below the well pad and damaged seven unnamed tributaries of Harts Run.

It says much of the work has been completed at the site, although Chesapeake still must remove sediment and stabilize the banks of the headwater tributaries to Harts Run.

Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake says it is pleased to resolve the matter.

The well site in question was in Greene County and now is controlled by Canonsburg, Pa.-based Rice Energy.

Ford to stop using air-bag inflators made by Takata

Ford Motor Co. will not be using air-bag inflators made by Takata Corp. in future vehicles, another blow to the troubled Japanese parts supplier as the auto industry continues to shun its product.

Ford joins Honda, Toyota and Nissan in deciding against putting the inflators in cars, trucks and SUVs now under development.

Takata inflators can explode with too much force, sending shrapnel into drivers and passengers. At least eight people have been killed worldwide and hundreds injured. The inflators have led to the recall of 19.2 million vehicles in the U.S., and government regulators are investigating the possibility of millions more.

Ford has recalled more than 1.5 million older Mustangs, Ford GTs and North American-built Ranger pickups to replace the inflators. Spokeswoman Kelli Felker would not say if other models have Takata inflators, but said the company has recalled all vehicles with inflators that Takata has determined are defective.

Home sales decline

WASHINGTON

Fewer Americans bought homes in October, a sign that rising home values may be pushing more would-be buyers to the real-estate market’s sidelines.

The National Association of Realtors said Monday that sales of existing homes fell 3.4 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.36 million.

Staff/wire reports