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Opioid funds to support veterans court docket

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YOUNGSTOWN — A special court docket for military veterans will continue with the aid of opioid settlement funds. Mahoning County commissioners last week allocated $100,000 in opioid settlement dollars to the Veterans Felony Honor Court program operated by Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Anthony D’Apolito. D’Apolito took over the docket from its founder, Judge Shirley Christian, shortly after it began in 2016. In the 10 years it has operated, D’Apolito said, the program has graduated more than 50 defendants with military backgrounds and helped ...

Rulli violates federal law on stock trading

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U.S. Rep. Michael Rulli failed to timely disclose 22 stock trades, including those dating back to late 2024, in violation of a federal law designed to prevent insider trading by members of Congress. Rulli, R-Salem, violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act though it ...

Holocaust center in Youngstown rededicated

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YOUNGSTOWN — Following extensive renovations, a rededication ceremony took place Tuesday morning for the Schwartz Holocaust and Antisemitism Resource Center at the Jewish Community Center. The center is a premier educational resource dedicated to Holocaust education, the study of ...

School-zone speeding violations in Youngstown soar

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YOUNGSTOWN — The number of citations issued from Youngstown’s unstaffed speed cameras in school zones significantly increased during the past school year, but the city is still struggling to find ways to spend the money it generates from collections. The speed cameras in 21 school zones ...

Jackie, the bald eagle who became an internet sensation, dies after illness

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BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Jackie, the bald eagle who became an internet sensation and a symbol of the species’ recovery in California, died Monday after being treated for an illness at a veterinary facility, her caretakers announced. For more than a decade, nature lovers watched via an online video feed as Jackie and her partner Shadow tended to their nest each year atop trees near Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles. The nonprofit Friends of Big Bear Valley installed the nest camera in 2015 and documented the successes and failures of each ...

Nation and world at a glance for Aug. 12

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Threat caused Trump’s odd exit from Air Force One WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump slipped away from Air Force One after a recent summit in Turkey because the Secret Service and military wanted him on a “different plane” due to a threat, he told reporters after a trip to Ohio on Tuesday. Trump’s comments confirmed a report that first appeared in The Washington Post on Monday saying that Trump stowed away in an airport catering container to slip into another plane while Air Force One was sent into the sky out of Turkey, essentially as a decoy, just in case Iran made ...