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Counselors give tips on how to get through grief on the holidays

Mahoning Valley family relives special Idora Park memory

From left, AJ, Sara, Johnny and Reagan Turner, and Bill and Edie Davidson, pose at Jane’s Carousel in Brooklyn, N.Y., with the horse on which Sara had her photo taken at Idora Park as a 5-year-old. The picture appeared in a 1984 Sunday pictorial section of The Vindicator.

Nearly 140 Puerto Ricans resettle in Valley

By GRAIG GRAZIOSI ggraziosi@vindy.com CAMPBELL Since September, nearly 140 new Hispanic

Gene therapy for rare form of blindness wins US approval VISION QUEST

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON U.S. health officials last week approved the

Walk-in childhood immunization clinics

Walk-in childhood immunization clinics WARREN The Warren City Health District, 258 E. Market

Prevent skin cancer

Q. As a middle-age, fair-skin redhead, I have had several run-ins with precancerous and basal skin

Snowy owls head south

Associated Press CHICAGO Scott Judd trained his camera lens on the white dot in the distance.

Congress progress looks dim for 2018

Associated Press WASHINGTON Their tax bill triumph in the rear-view mirror, Republicans running

On July 1, 2013, 12,654 children in Ohio were in agency custody

Four years later, the number had climbed to 15,145

Dems aim to turn tax plan into cudgel in 2018 midterms

Associated Press ATLANTA A Democratic congressional candidate outside Philadelphia calls the

Births

Births St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital Levon and Angela Witmer, Leetonia, boy, Dec. 23. Nesha

Students create plug-in to fight fake news

Associated Press NEW HAVEN, Conn. A team of college students has come up with an internet

Pope laments ‘winds of war’ blowing all around world

Associated Press VATICAN CITY Lamenting “the winds of war” blowing all around the world, Pope

Ohio’s capital city facing near record-high homicide rate

Associated Press COLUMBUS Earlier this month, with homicides at a near-record high in Ohio’s

It’s a dark and desperate life without power in Puerto Rico

Associated Press MOROVIS, Puerto Rico Three days before Christmas, Doris Martinez and daughter

Man dies in fire

Man dies in fire WARREN A man died in a fire at an Oakdale Drive Northwest home on Christmas

Christmas brings Northeast blizzard, cold in Midwest

Christmas brings Northeast blizzard, cold in Midwest CHICAGO The good news for many in the

Trump celebrates Christmas like most of America, with family

Associated Press PALM BEACH, Fla. President Donald Trump is celebrating Christmas the way

Cold front to freeze Valley this week

Meteorologists expect “bone-chilling cold” with temperatures in the single digits