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Shale Crescent USA

YOUNGSTOWN

Shale Crescent USA is a new economic-development initiative created to encourage business growth in the Mid-Ohio Valley. The initiative is based upon low natural-gas prices that allow manufacturers to operate more efficiently while producing products more economically with access to rivers and close proximity to more than half the population of the U.S.

For more information on Shale Crescent USA, go to: shalecrescentusa.com/.

Boardman Subaru donates to hospital

BOARDMAN

Representatives from Boardman Subaru presented a check for $32,000 to Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley, 6505 Market St.

The donation represents the total raised from the 2015 Subaru Share the Love event. Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley was selected as the hometown charity partner. The Share the Love program at Boardman Subaru raised more than $27,000 for Akron Children’s Hospital, and Boardman Subaru chose to donate an extra $5,000, bringing the total donation to $32,000.

Subaru of America Inc. has announced it donated nearly $20 million to national and local charities during its 2015 Share the Love event, a record total in the eight-year history of the campaign.

Arby’s to reopen

BOARDMAN

Customers of the Boardman Arby’s at 29 Boardman-Poland Road should see the location reopen in August.

The company-owned location is the first Arby’s restaurant worldwide. It is being remodeled to the Arby’s “Inspire” restaurant design as part of the company’s nationwide remodeling initiative.

House passes bill to aid Puerto Rico

WASHINGTON

The House on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a rescue package for debt-stricken Puerto Rico, clearing a major hurdle in the ongoing effort to bring relief to the U.S. territory of 3.5 million Americans.

The strong bipartisan vote was 297-127 for the legislation that would create a financial-control board and allow restructuring of some of Puerto Rico’s $70 billion debt. The measure now heads to the Senate, just three weeks before the territory must make a $2 billion payment.

UN condemns Irish abortion ban

DUBLIN

Ireland’s abortion ban subjects women to discriminatory, cruel and degrading treatment and should be ended immediately for cases involving fatal fetal abnormalities, U.N. human-rights experts said Thursday.

The 29-page report from the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Committee accepted a complaint filed by Amanda Mellet, a Dublin woman who was denied a 2011 abortion in Ireland after doctors informed her that her fetus had a heart defect and could not survive outside the womb.

Staff/wire reports