National-security aide Gorka leaves White House

National-security aide Gorka leaves White House

WASHINGTON

White House national security aide Sebastian Gorka tells The Associated Press he has resigned from his position.

A White House official, however, says Gorka did not resign but “no longer works at the White House.”

That official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Amazon planning warehouse near Cleveland

CLEVELAND

E-commerce giant Amazon plans to build a massive warehouse outside Cleveland on the site of a closed shopping mall.

The Plain Dealer reports Amazon finalized a lease deal Thursday to build an 855,000-square-foot warehouse in North Randall, a village of just over 1,000 people.

The newspaper reports Amazon will create more than 2,000 full-time jobs. Construction costs are estimated at $177 million.

After Trump’s response, aide mulled quitting

WASHINGTON

President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser sharply denounced the president’s response to the racial violence in Charlottesville, saying in an interview that he felt “compelled” to speak out. Gary Cohn, who is Jewish, was so upset by Trump’s comments that he wrote a letter of resignation but never submitted it.

It was an extraordinary public rebuke of the president by a senior adviser and came just as Cohn will be a key figure in the administration’s fall push for sweeping tax reforms.

Visiting judge to step in as wounded Ohio judge recovers

COLUMBUS

A visiting judge will help out in an Ohio courthouse while a judge who was shot and wounded in an attack continues to recover, according to an announcement by the state’s chief justice.

Judge John Solovan, a retired judge from Belmont County in eastern Ohio, will serve in Jefferson County court through Nov. 21.

Solovan will sit in for Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr., who was shot Monday morning outside the Jefferson County courthouse in Steubenville.

RNC votes to condemn white supremacists

NASHVILLE, Tenn.

The Republican National Committee walked the tightrope Friday in carefully but resolutely denouncing white supremacist groups without criticizing President Donald Trump, who waffled in his own statements in the wake of the deadly clash in Virginia this month.

Meeting in Nashville, Tenn., the RNC approved a raft of resolutions, including one asserting “Nazis, the KKK, white supremacists and others are repulsive, evil and have no fruitful place in the United States.”

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Alcoa Inc., .1241.21-0.13

Aqua America, .71 34.010.04

Avalon Holdings,1.92-0.05

Chemical Bank, .2746.270.39Community Health Sys. 7.58 0.05

Cortland Bancorp, .2817.750.00

Farmers Nat., .1613.450.00

First Energy, 1.44 32.680.01

Fifth/Third, .5226.67-0.18

FirstMerit Corp.,--

First Niles Financial, .1210.52-0.63

FNB Corp., .4812.960.12

General Motors, 1.5235.610.09

General Electric, .9224.490.19

Huntington Bank, .28 12.760.06

iHeartMedia Inc.,1.48-0.17

JP Morgan Chase, 1.9291.880.36

Key Corp, .3417.590.05

LaFarge, .34--

Macy’s, 1.51 21.110.42

Parker Hannifin, 2.52 157.380.81

PNC, 2.20127.830.16

Simon Prop. Grp., 6.60159.072.41

Stoneridge 16.170.16

United Comm. Fin., .12 9.100.07

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