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Incubator to offer training program

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Business Incubator, 241 W. Federal St., is offering a training program that was developed inside Google to help employees of all levels to adapt, management teams to evolve and leaders to optimize their impact.

The program, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, is a two-day professional development workshop that will begin at 8 a.m. March 10.

To register, go to eventbrite.com.

Goldman Sachs to pay $5 billion in settlement

NEW YORK

Goldman Sachs said Thursday it will pay roughly $5 billion to settle federal and state probes of its role in the sale of shoddy mortgages in the years leading to the housing bubble and subsequent financial crisis.

Coming nearly eight years after the crisis, the settlement is by far the largest the investment bank has reached related to its role in the meltdown. But the payment is dwarfed by those made by some of its Wall Street counterparts.

Meeting between armed group, locals in limbo

BURNS, Ore.

The leader of an armed group occupying a national wildlife refuge said Thursday a meeting with local residents will happen, but it’s not clear when and where because the group is struggling to find a place for the gathering.

The group protesting federal land policies had planned to have a meeting this evening in Burns to explain themselves and tell residents when they will leave.

Leader Ammon Bundy told reporters that Harney County officials won’t let them use the fairgrounds, as they had hoped.

“It’s still in limbo,” Bundy said. “We’re still going to have it. It’s just a matter of when and where.”

Iran says it has removed core of reactor

TEHRAN, Iran

Nuclear technicians have finished removing the core of Iran’s only nuclear heavy-water reactor as part of Tehran’s obligations under its nuclear deal with world powers, Iranian state television reported Thursday.

The removal of the core of the nearly completed Arak reactor is a key step before crippling international sanctions on Iran are lifted.

The work still must be verified by outside experts.

Under the deal reached last summer, the heavy- water reactor is to be re-engineered so that it produces only minute amounts of plutonium, like enriched uranium a potential pathway to nuclear arms. That involves exchanging the core and other major modifications.

Staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Alcoa Inc., .127.24.11

Aqua America, .71 29.52 .48

Avalon Holdings,1.70—.01

Cortland Bancorp, .2415.50—.40

Farmers Nat., .128.22 .13

First Energy, 1.44 32.561.06

Fifth/Third, .5217.65.32

FirstMerit Corp., .6816.58 .09

First Niles Financial, .209.00.00

FNB Corp., .4812.05.19

General Motors, 1.4430.30—.19

General Electric, .9229.06.82

Huntington Bank, .28 9.85.10

iHeartMedia Inc.,1.00 .00

JP Morgan Chase, 1.7658.20.86

Key Corp, .3011.83.15

LaFarge, .3417.57 .00

Macy’s, 1.44 37.64—1.00

Parker Hannifin, 2.52 90.65.93

PNC, 2.0486.87.97

Simon Prop. Grp., 6.40185.661.39

Stoneridge 11.43 .14

Talmer Bank, .04 16.80.16

United Comm. Fin., .10 5.66.10

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