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YOLO will close

AUSTINTOWN

YOLO Grille and Taproom will close down Saturday, the restaurant announced via its Facebook page this week.

“The ownership, management and staff at Yolo would like to thank all of our loyal patrons and friends for their 9 years of support,” the post stated.

The post, signed by “Chef Matt” (proprietor Matt Sutton) concluded by inviting patrons to stop by the restaurant Saturday for the Ohio State Buckeyes versus Clemson Tigers national semifinal game, and by encouraging them to “please eat and spend on locally owned businesses.”

The restaurant is at 5529 Mahoning Ave. Its menu features a mixture of Mediterranean and American dishes.

YOLO originally was located in Canfield, then moved to its current location a few years ago.

Activist who freed minks pleads guilty to federal charge

SAN DIEGO

An animal-rights activist who vandalized a fur store and journeyed around the country freeing thousands of minks from farms has pleaded guilty to a federal charge in San Diego.

The San Diego Union-Tribune says Nicole Kissane pleaded Tuesday to a charge of conspiracy to violate the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.

Prosecutors are expected to recommend an 18-month sentence.

In her plea deal, the former Escondido woman acknowledged damaging the mink businesses. She also acknowledged vandalizing a San Diego fur store and the homes of the business owner and the owner’s parents.

She’s agreed to pay more than $420,000 in restitution.

A co-defendant, Joseph Buddenberg, was sentenced in May to two years in prison.

Cops seize cocaine, arrest 15 men

SYDNEY

Australian officials have seized more than a ton of cocaine worth about 360 million Australian dollars ($260 million) in what police have dubbed one of the largest drug busts in the nation’s history.

New South Wales police said Thursday that 15 men were arrested after a 21/2-year federal and state police investigation into suspected drug trafficking by commercial fishermen in Sydney.

In March, officials seized 1,300 pounds of cocaine in Tahiti that police say was bound for the Australian market. On Sunday, police seized 1,100 pounds of cocaine that was being offloaded from a boat in the town of Brooklyn, about30 miles north of Sydney. The drugs are believed to have come from South America.

Guilty verdict in woman’s death

HONOLULU

A jury has found a Hawaii man guilty of murder in the death of his ex-girlfriend who disappeared while five months pregnant with his child.

Jurors reached the verdict Wednesday.

Steven Capobianco has been on trial since June in the death of Carly “Charli” Scott. Her mother and sisters last saw her Feb. 9, 2014.

Police later found some of Scott’s body parts and bloody clothes.

Defense attorney Jon Apo told jurors that detectives, Scott’s family and even Capobianco’s friends presumed him guilty without considering other suspects.

Capobianco didn’t testify.

Staff/wire reports