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Ribbon-cutting

WARREN

The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony for The World Famous Holy Hot Dog, 1913 Niles-Cortland Road NE, at 11 a.m. Monday.

Holy Hot Dog was created by a Niles native, businessman and philanthropist who wanted to make lunch pay back.

Holy Hot Dog donates “Give Back” cards to participating nonprofits. Each time someone with a Give Back Card eats at Holy Hot Dog, 10 percent of the profit generated from their meal is earmarked to be given back at an end-of-the-year celebration.

Several local nonprofits, including churches, Habitat for Humanity of Trumbull County, Making Kids Count and the Dream Center have participated.

Visit www.holyhotdog.com for information.

Calif. flood sweeps cabins, cars down coastal canyon

LOS ANGELES

More than 20 people escaped injury Friday when a flood swept cabins and vehicles down a coastal canyon as the second in a trio of storms drenched California with heavy rain and brought more snow to the mountains.

A swollen creek lifted five cabins off their foundations at midmorning and swept 22 vehicles down El Capitan Canyon in Santa Barbara County, fire Capt. Dave Zaniboni said.

Firefighters rescued one person from a vehicle and another person got out of another vehicle on their own, he said. Neither was harmed.

1 wounded in Ohio school shooting

WEST LIBERTY, Ohio

A school shooting that left one student hospitalized and others scrambling out classroom windows could have been far worse if not for the heroics of staff members who stopped the shooter and had him pinned down when police arrived, authorities said.

The shooter, a 17-year-old senior, used a shotgun and intended to harm more than the student who was hit, Champaign County Sheriff Matthew Melvin said.

The shooter was in custody facing a preliminary charge of felonious assault, authorities said.

Rescuers pull out avalanche survivors

FARINDOLA, Italy

After two days huddled in freezing cold, tons of snow surrounding them in the wreckage of the avalanche-demolished hotel, survivors greeted their rescuers Friday as “angels.” Among the 10 people pulled out alive was a plucky 6-year-old who just wanted her favorite cookies.

But for the loved ones of at least 16 others still trapped in the doomed mountain resort in central Italy, the agonizing wait to learn their relatives’ fate dragged on.

Cheers of rang out as the first survivors were pulled from the debris, boosting spirits after the snow slide buried some 30 people.

Staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Alcoa Inc., .1235.690.27

Aqua America, .71 29.64-0.15

Avalon Holdings,2.99-0.16

Chemical Bank, .2723.34-0.36Community Health Sys. 6.57 0.13

Cortland Bancorp, .2817.850.00

Farmers Nat., .1613.25-0.10

First Energy, 1.44 30.03-0.28

Fifth/Third, .5226.290.30

FirstMerit Corp.,21.610.37First Niles Financial, .1210.250.00

FNB Corp., .4815.150.07

General Motors, 1.5237.01-0.29

General Electric, .9230.52-0.69

Huntington Bank, .28 13.120.11iHeartMedia Inc.,1.080.01

JP Morgan Chase, 1.9283.680.38

Key Corp, .3417.850.01LaFarge, .34-0.00

Macy’s, 1.51 29.710.26

Parker Hannifin, 2.52 142.50-1.25PNC, 2.20117.371.76

Simon Prop. Grp., 6.60184.561.64

Stoneridge 16.80-0.33

United Comm. Fin., .12 8.10-0.01

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