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Judge selects veteran businessman to operate downtown utility company
Judge R. Scott Krichbaum of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court has appointed a court-appointed receiver company to take over Youngstown Thermal, a downtown utility company in financial woe.
Youngstown-built tech trailer headed to naval base
Nick Mazurek, head of engineering, design and development at Youngstown Business Incubator portfolio company AST2, is flanked by a pair of 3-D printers installed in the Transportable Digital Fabrication Lab mobile manufacturing unit. The 'FabLab' will be driven to a U.S. military base in New Orleans on Thursday.
Stocks are at records, but it’s no longer the ‘Trump trade’
Associated Press NEW YORK The stock market has never been higher, and President Donald Trump
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Pandora store to open at Eastwood Niles A Pandora store is on its way to Eastwood Mall. By
Automakers to report lower sales this July, analysts say
July auto sales are expected to be down by at least 6 percent
Selected local stocks
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US slaps Maduro with financial sanctions
Associated Press WASHINGTON The Trump administration slapped financial sanctions on Venezuelan
Racino kicks off Responsible Gaming Week
Hollywood Gaming at Mahoning Valley Race Course kicked off “Responsible Gaming Education Week” on Monday.
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Customer reports YOUNGSTOWN Dominion Energy Ohio is getting customer reports of encounters with
AP Analysis: Recall effort falling short
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT A government effort to speed up recalls of more than 21
GM Lordstown’s Cruze wins top safety, performance awards
The Cruze received a 5-Star safety rating, the best available, jumping from 18th to fifth in initial quality.
Anticipation builds for Queen of Hearts drawing at Crickets bar
Jackpot reaches more than $200,0000.
Experts doubt Trump can deliver lost jobs
April 29, 1982, marked the end of the era of smelting iron ore to make steel in Youngstown with the demolition of U.S. Steel’s Ohio Works blast furnaces. But on Tuesday, Donald Trump urged Valley residents not to sell their homes, vowing that he is 'going to get those jobs coming back, and we’re going to fill up those factories or rip them down and build brand new ones.'
LIMELIGHTS, CAREER PATHS
HIRED Upstate Shredding-Ben Weitsman of New Castle, Pa., recently announced the hiring of George
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Home readiness YOUNGSTOWN The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority will have a financial