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Shopping plaza sold

Youngstown

The Cornersburg shopping plaza at 3373 Canfield Road was recently sold for $860,000.

Shutrump United Enterprises of Youngstown sold the property to Shops at Cornersburg LLC on Nov. 8.

The Shops at Cornersburg LLC was formed by Craig N. Tareshawty.

MCCTC students help

POLAND

Students in the culinary, cosmetology and creative arts programs at the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center are assisting three sisters who are opening a salon in Poland with their grand opening from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday.

Icon Studio is at 3057 Center Road Suite D.

Project is completed

CLEVELAND

The Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network, Medina County Workforce Development, Team NEO, and WIRE-NET recently announced the completion of a major, grant-funded project that has helped firms improve their competitiveness and create manufacturing jobs in the region.

The four organizations were awarded a $1.8 million, three-year grant courtesy of Make It in America. The grant targets midsize companies in biomedical, automotive and advanced-energy sectors that use materials such as polymers in their manufacturing processes.

The results of this program include: 41 companies were identified as needing assistance; $10 million to $25 million estimated in new investments; 68 jobs created; and 65 jobs retained.

Flight service to Cuba

DALLAS

Southwest Airlines Co. began service to the carrier’s 100th city, Havana, Cuba, with inaugural celebration on flights departing two U.S. gateway airports, Tampa International and Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International. Southwest Employees and Executive Leaders joined customers in traveling aboard the first Southwest flights to Havana.

Service to Santa Clara, Cuba, the carrier’s 101st city served, begins Thursday. Service to Varadero, Cuba, began Nov. 13.

Guterres sworn in as new UN official

UNITED NATIONS

Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres was sworn in Monday as secretary-general of the United Nations, becoming the ninth U.N. chief in the body’s 71-year history.

The former U.N. refugee chief was elected to the top job by acclamation in the General Assembly in October. He takes over from Ban Ki-moon on Jan. 1.

Pro-Kurds arrested in wake of bombings

ISTANBUL

Turkish authorities arrested more than 200 people Monday after suicide bombings near an Istanbul stadium that killed 44 people. The arrests primarily targeted members of a Kurdish political party that was a focus of a broader government crackdown.

Saturday’s attack, which a radical Kurdish group claimed as an act of revenge for state violence against the ethnic minority in the southeast, was the deadliest to hit Istanbul this year.

Authorities blamed the carnage on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.

Staff/wire reports