Builders Association to construct offices

Builders Association to construct offices

VIENNA

The Builders Association of Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania announced it will be starting construction on new business offices at 1372 Youngstown-Kingsville Road SE.

In addition to housing the association’s business offices, the 4,500-square-foot building will feature conference and training rooms.

A groundbreaking event is scheduled for 11 a.m. Oct. 31.

The association represents about 150 union contractors and construction-related employers from Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana, Mercer and Lawrence counties. It also represents 15 building trade agreements in the region.

Cement Masons taking applications

VIENNA

The Cement Masons Local 179 Joint Apprenticeship Program is accepting applications from prospective apprentices through Oct. 31, according to a news release.

Applications are available at the union hall, 5204 Mahoning Ave., Suite 108, in Youngstown. To obtain an application, candidates also can call Gary Hartman at 330-539-6050 or the union hall at 330-799-9600.

Completed applications can be returned via mail to Cement Masons Local 179 JATC, P.O. Box 499, Vienna, OH 44473.

The program is a three-year apprenticeship. The progression of wages ranges from $16.31 to $26.68 per hour, plus benefits, based on the number of completed work hours.

Man accused of threatening US senator indicted

PHOENIX

A man accused of threatening to kidnap and kill a United States senator and his family has been indicted on federal charges in Arizona.

The indictment filed Oct. 9 against James Dean Blevins doesn’t fully identify the victim and instead refers to him as “United States Senator J.F.”

In late September, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake said his family received death threats after he asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to hear testimony from a woman who accused then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault.

Radio ad suggests Dems will lynch blacks if they win

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.

A Republican congressman in central Arkansas and his challenger Thursday condemned a political action committee’s radio ad that suggests white Democrats will lynch black Americans if they win the midterm election next month.

GOP Rep. French Hill criticized the ad from Black Americans for the President’s Agenda, which invokes the accusation that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a woman when he was a teenager. A woman in the ad says that “white Democrats will be lynching black folk again.”

“I’m voting to keep Congressman French Hill and the Republicans because we have to protect our men and boys,” the woman in the ad says. “We can’t afford to let white Democrats take us back to bad old days of race verdicts, life sentences and lynchings when a white girl screams rape.”

Staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

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Alcoa Inc., 38.852.15

Aqua America, .20 37.22 0.09

Avalon Holdings,3.240.00

Chemical Bank, .2849.77-0.70Community Health Sys, .212.940.05

Cortland Bancorp, .1123.05-0.10

Farmers Nat., .0714.10 -0.48

First Energy, .36 38.060.14

Fifth/Third, .1626.40-0.62

First Niles Financial, .059.070.00

FNB Corp., .1211.74-0.23

General Motors, .3831.06-0.87

General Electric, .1212.380.19

Huntington Bank, .11 14.21-0.18

JP Morgan Chase, .56108.09-1.81

Key Corp, .1118.09-0.66

Macy’s, .38 32.360.53

Parker Hannifin, .76159.22-3.30

PNC, .75124.01-3.32

Simon Prop. Grp., 2.88173.070.33

Stoneridge 24.08 -0.68

United Comm. Fin., .06 9.37-0.21

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