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Dangers linger as Florida recovery picks up momentum

Associated Press MIAMI Nearly a week after Hurricane Irma walloped Florida, the recovery


Expert declares qualified end to water crisis in Flint

Associated Press DETROIT An expert who has warned about dangerous lead levels in the drinking


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Locked out YOUNGSTOWN The co-owner of Extreme Machines of East Dennick Avenue reported Friday


Saturn spacecraft makes fiery, final dive

Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft disintegrated in the skies


YPD finds 358 pills, gun, while checking suspicious vehicle

Two taken into custody


State unemployment rate up in August

Ohio’s unemployment rate was 5.4 percent in August 2017, up from 5.2 percent in July 2017.


S&P 500 tops 2,500 mark as tech and bank stocks climb

Associated Press NEW YORK U.S. stocks edged higher Friday as technology companies and banks


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Open interviews Shepherd of the Valley is having open interviews at its communities in Poland, 301


Deliberations stretch on in Slender Man case

Deliberations stretch on in Slender Man case Jurors were still trying to decide whether a


Judge says Sessions can’t deny grant money for sanctuary cities

Associated Press CHICAGO Attorney General Jeff Sessions can’t follow through – at least for now


Canine Carnival set in Boardman

Staff report BOARDMAN Boardman Park will host a Howl-O-Ween Canine Carnival, a free family-


Ma’lik Richmond can play football for YSU this weekend, judge rules

The federal judge granted a temporary restraining order against YSU extending until a Sept. 28 injunction hearing.


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Filing says Nasser Hamad fired at ‘attackers’ because of PTSD

Lawyers for Nasser Hamad filed their most bold assertions to date in a motion that for the first time says several of the five people who went to his house Feb. 25 assaulted Hamad in his front yard.


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Friends4Friends film fest allows teens to focus on relevant issues

Students from James A. Garfield, Fitch, Campbell Memorial, Western Reserve and Bedford high schools submitted short films that were featured at the festival. Main themes explored were sexual pressure, cyberbullying, cutting oneself and heroin addiction.


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Colaluca addresses open-enrollment, fields questions

Open-enrollment has become a hot topic in the Austintown School District, and at the beginning of a new school year, Superintendent Vince Colaluca sat down with residents to discuss its impacts on the schools.