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Dominion rates lower than last year

YOUNGSTOWN

Dominion East’s Ohio Standard Choice offer for August is 9.8 percent lower than a year ago.

Effective Friday, Dominion East Ohio’s Standard Choice Offer/Standard Service Offer rates will be $2.62 per thousand cubic feet. The rates are 24.5 cents, or 8.5 percent, lower than the July SCO/SSO rates of $2.86 per Mcf. The rates are 28.4 cents, or 9.8 percent, lower than the August 2015 SCO/SSO rates of $2.90/Mcf.

‘Simon G’ to visit Komara Jewelers

YOUNGSTOWN

Simon Ghanimian, better known as “Simon G” in the jewelry world, will visit Komara Jewelers in Canfield from 3 to 4 p.m. today. Komara is located at 3649 Canfield Road.

Kasich signs order on emergency system

COLUMBUS

Gov. John Kasich on Tuesday signed Executive Order 2016-04K, which creates and implements a one-call emergency notification system for oil- and gas-related emergencies and allows the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and Department of Commerce to immediately adopt administrative rules necessary to implement the system.

The one-call emergency notification system will allow multiple state entities to coordinate and respond to oil- and gas-related incidents in the quickest and most-efficient manner possible to protect public health and safety.

Man beaten for wearing Trump shirt, police say

BLOOMFIELD, N.J.

Police say a man was assaulted with a crowbar in the parking lot of a New Jersey restaurant for wearing a Donald Trump T-shirt.

Peter Yankowski says he was walking in Bloomfield last week wearing a T-shirt featuring the Republican presidential nominee standing in front of an American flag. He says a motorist questioned him about his “Trump for President” shirt, and they exchanged insults. He says a scuffle occurred soon after.

Police say Yankowski was struck with a crowbar several times and was treated at the scene. They say the motorist fled before officers arrived.

Judge denies Blagojevich’s bid to lighten sentence

CHICAGO

A federal judge refused Tuesday to lighten Rod Blagojevich’s original 14-year prison sentence for corruption, rejecting pleas for lenience by the now white-haired former Illinois governor who attended the resentencing hearing by video from a Colorado prison a thousand miles away.

Blagojevich, 59, was eligible for resentencing after an appeals court last year threw out several convictions related to his alleged attempt to sell or trade an appointment to President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat.

A somber, contrite Blagojevich spoke for 20 minutes in a sometimes apologetic, sometimes rambling statement before U.S. District Judge James Zagel announced the sentence, telling the court he understood he made mistakes.

Staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Alcoa Inc., .1210.35—.10

Aqua America, .71 32.66 —.05

Avalon Holdings,3.10.13

Cortland Bancorp, .2815.00—.90

Farmers Nat., .169.70 .22

First Energy, 1.44 32.84—.03

Fifth/Third, .5219.40.00

FirstMerit Corp., .6821.59 —.09

First Niles Financial, .128.25.00

FNB Corp., .4812.38.02

General Motors, 1.5231.07.19

General Electric, .9231.30.03

Huntington Bank, .28 9.70—.04

iHeartMedia Inc.,1.23 —.02

JP Morgan Chase, 1.9265.87—.23

Key Corp, .3412.24.07

LaFarge, .3417.57 .00

Macy’s, 1.51 33.78—.97

Parker Hannifin, 2.52 121.93—.73

PNC, 2.0486.25—.24

Simon Prop. Grp., 6.40220.63.66

Stoneridge 17.66 —.18

Talmer Bank, .20 22.07.06

United Comm. Fin., .10 6.81.07

Selected prices from Tuesday’s 4 p.m. close.