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Check presentation

YOUNGSTOWN

The Home Savings Charitable Foundation will make a $15,000 check presentation to the Ballet Western Reserve of Youngstown today .

Career fair planned

YOUNGSTOWN

The Mahoning County Board of Developmental Disabilities will host its “Career and Transition Resource Fair” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 8 at Southern Park Mall, 7401 Market St.

This free event will offer one-on-one opportunities with colleges and trade schools, employers and disability services and organizations.

Coffee Day deals

YOUNGSTOWN

Today is National Coffee Day.

To celebrate, Dunkin’ Donuts will offer any medium-sized cup of coffee for 66 cents. The special price celebrates the brand’s 66-year history.

Starbucks will donate a coffee tree for each purchase of a brewed Mexico Chiapas coffee made at its stores.

Kasich to veto bills to remove standards on clean energy

COLUMBUS

Ohio Gov. John Kasich remains opposed to legislation that would eliminate renewable energy mandates in the state.

The Columbus Dispatch reported the Republican governor recently said at an event in Texas that he would veto such legislation.

The standards went into effect in 2008 and say electricity utilities must meet annual benchmarks for renewable energy and for finding ways to help customers reduce energy use. Kasich signed a measure placing a two-year freeze on the standards two years ago.

State lawmakers in May started hearings on a measure that would extend the current freeze on clean-energy standards for three years and another bill that would freeze the requirements indefinitely.

Kasich says the 2008 standards were “unrealistic” but that he’d veto any plan to eliminate the standards.

North Dakota asks pipeline company to explain purchase

BISMARCK, N.D.

North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem is asking the developer of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline to explain its purchase of a ranch where a protest turned violent earlier this month.

Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners recently purchased the 7,000-acre ranch last week for an undisclosed price.

Stenehjem is giving the company 30 days to say how the land, where tribal officials said construction crews destroyed burial and cultural sites, will be used.

North Dakota law generally bars corporations from owning agricultural land unless the property is controlled by a farm family. The company must prove to the state how its purchase complies with the Depression-era anti-corporate farming law.

Staff/wire reports