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East basketball player ordered detained

He was on house arrest when he participated in the basketball game.


Warren’s Petersons put up good ‘Family Feud’ but lost

Several members of the family appeared on the TV game show Thursday.


6 face charges in $31M Medicaid fraud case

The state Medicaid department paid $31 million of those fraudulent claims, while the center handed out opioids without a physician’s approval, the indictment states.


Vienna cop expected to resign

Trustees will decide on accepting his resignation Monday.


Youngstown officials reduce the projected general-fund deficit to $433,000

They’ll meet in three weeks expecting to have the fund balanced


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Art show gives hobbyists and artisans a chance to show off their work

The event is Sunday at the B&O Station Banquet Hall from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.


Inaugural Home & Garden Expo Saturday in Buhl Park

The event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m will be at the Avalon Golf and Country Club.


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Chamber points laid-off GM employees to new opportunities

Chamber President and CEO James Dignan said the list is a good compilation of the chamber members looking for skilled workers.


Mom arrested after found with kids during drug search

For the second time in two weeks, police charged someone at a West Side home with child endangering after investigating suspected drug activity.


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Memo details deal that returned Hoerig to Ohio

Claudia Hoerig was assured not to receive the death penalty or a firm term of life in prison if convicted in the murder of her husband as a result of an agreement Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins made with the Brazilian government, according to a sentencing memorandum prosecutors filed Thursday in her case. Watkins said he would not comment on the agreement until after today’s sentencing, but The Vindicator exclusively reported several weeks ago that a Brazilian legal magazine and the British Broadcasting Corp. said such an agreement was a condition of Claudia being returned to Ohio.

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Agenda Saturday

Agenda Saturday Girard Zoning Committee, 10 a.m., The Daily Grind coffee shop, 824 N. State St.


METRO DIGEST || School art exhibits

The Art Outreach Gallery at the Eastwood Mall Complex has started the 2019 school art exhibits featuring artwork by students from Mineral Ridge and Hubbard high schools.


Video shows train leave with baby on board, dad on platform

Associated Press CLEVELAND A surveillance video released by a transit authority in Cleveland


BIRTHS

Births St. Elizabeth boardman hospital Charles and Amanda Powers, North Lima, boy, Feb. 6.


CORRECTION

CORRECTION The address of Struthers Councilman Richard Bayus, D-4th, who is running in the May 7