Card shop to close

Card shop to close

Boardman

Cards and Collectibles of Boardman will close after 34 years in business.

The business, located at 1393 Boardman-Canfield Road, inside the Huntington Woods Shopping Center, will close after March, according to The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, 21 WFMJ-TV.

The store could not come to a lease agreement with the plaza’s owner.

WRPA division is re-branded

YOUNGSTOWN

The board of directors of the Western Reserve Port Authority on Monday announced the re-branding of the WRPA’s division devoted to promoting financing and economic development activities in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

The division is now called the Northeast Ohio Development and Finance Authority.

Financing services offered by the Northeast Ohio Development and Finance Authority include: capital leasing, Property Assessment Clean Energy, Tax Increment Financing and conduit revenue bonds.

MCTA moves to new location

YOUNGSTOWN

Mahoning & Columbiana Training Association has completed its move to 20 Federal Place, 20 W. Federal Street, Suite 604. The new location opens at 8 a.m. today.

MCTA’s phone number, 330-747-5639, and fax number, 330-743-1741, have not changed. The office previously was located at 9 W. Front St. for 16 years.

MCTA is the fiscal agent for the federal Workforce Innovation & Opportunities Act funds as well as operator of the OhioMeansJobs Centers of Mahoning and Columbiana counties.

Navy SEAL receives Medal of Honor

WASHINGTON

A Navy SEAL who helped rescue an American hostage in Afghanistan received the nation’s highest military honor Monday, hailed by President Barack Obama as “a special breed of warrior who so often serves in the shadows.”

Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward Byers Jr. is the first living, active-duty member of the Navy to receive the Medal of Honor in four decades.

North Korea puts detained American before cameras

PYONGYANG, North Korea

North Korea presented a detained American student before the media Monday in Pyongyang, where he tearfully apologized for attempting to steal a political banner – at the behest, he said, of a member of a church back home who wanted it as a “trophy” – from a staff-only section of the hotel where he had been staying.

North Korea announced in late January it had arrested Otto Warmbier, a 21-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student. It said that after entering the country as a tourist, he committed an anti-state crime with “the tacit connivance of the U.S. government and under its manipulation.”

Staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Alcoa Inc., .128.930.06

Aqua America, .71 30.57-0.08

Avalon Holdings,1.840.03

Cortland Bancorp, .2816.000.00

Farmers Nat., .128.500.07

First Energy, 1.44 33.470.65

Fifth/Third, .5215.26-0.42

FirstMerit Corp., .6819.63-0.26

First Niles Financial, .209.000.00

FNB Corp., .488.500.07

General Motors, 1.5229.44-0.19

General Electric, .9229.14-0.26

Huntington Bank, .28 8.75-0.20

iHeartMedia Inc.,1.150.05JP Morgan Chase, 1.7656.30-1.24

Key Corp, .3010.55-0.17

LaFarge, .3417.570.00

Macy’s, 1.44 43.21-0.22

Parker Hannifin, 2.52 101.20-1.01

PNC, 2.0481.31-2.66

Simon Prop. Grp., 6.40189.73-0.67

Stoneridge 12.040.02

Talmer Bank, .20 16.80-0.54

United Comm. Fin., .10 5.90-0.06

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