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Top-notch firefighters sought for annual award

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The Vindicator is seeking nominations for its annual Mahoning County Firefighter of the Year competition. Nominees will be evaluated on dedication, productivity, loyalty and professionalism. They must serve with a fire department in Mahoning County, be at least 18 and hold any rank below chief. Fire department personnel can nominate a fellow firefighter, but nominations also can be submitted by the public. Nominators should include a written statement explaining why the individual meets the criteria for the award, and the nominations should include no more than five pages of ...

Boardman cyclist to journey around Lake Erie

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Staff report Boardman cyclist Carl Foote is turning miles into memories and milestones. Starting today, he will embark on the Magical Memory Tour (MMT 2026), a 700-mile, two-week bicycle journey around the entire perimeter of Lake Erie. His mission is to raise critical funds and awareness for the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund with 100% of those donations going toward research. Foote, 74, will launch from Ashtabula, pushing west through Cleveland and Toledo before heading north into Monroe and Detroit. From there, the international journey crosses into Windsor, Ontario, tracing the ...

Singapore man pleads to orchestrating $240M bitcoin theft from DC resident

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A 22-year-old man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to teaming up with friends to steal nearly a quarter-billion dollars in bitcoin from a Washington, D.C., resident — one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts in U.S. history — and then embarking on a wild spending spree with the laundered proceeds. Malone Lam, an eighth-grade dropout who came to the U.S. from Singapore, faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years after pleading guilty to a federal racketeering conspiracy charge. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly didn’t immediately schedule Lam’s sentencing ...

Elections board considers former school for new home

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YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County commissioners, the Western Reserve Port Authority and the Youngstown City School District are expected to talk later this month about potentially relocating the county board of elections to the former Williamson School. Board Director Tom McCabe said Tuesday: “The commissioners and the port authority are working on it. There is movement.” Board Vice Chairwoman Sandra Barger said: “We think everyone will be happy when it’s all said and done — like literally everyone.” McCabe said the meeting among the commissioners, the WRPA and the school ...

America Makes selects $13.2M project leader

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Staff report EWI, an advanced manufacturing and engineering solutions company in Columbus, has been selected by America Makes and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining to lead a $13.2 million national program. The effort is aimed at solving one of the biggest barriers to using additive manufacturing for critical defense parts: the cost and complexity of verifying part quality. The program, known as INSITE (INtegrated System for In-situ Testing and Evaluation), will run for three years. “As additive manufacturing advances toward larger, more complex ...

Thieves steal four Renoirs from a French museum

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PARIS (AP) — Two thieves sliced through a fence, climbed through a window and stole four valuable Renoir paintings Tuesday from a small museum on the French Riviera, but abandoned two of the artworks as they fled, authorities said. Investigators launched a national search for the perpetrators. The whole operation took less than three minutes and targeted the most valuable works in the Renoir Museum in the town of Cagnes-sur-Mer, the regional prosecutor’s office said. The theft conjured up painful memories of the spectacular heist of crown jewels at the Louvre Museum in Paris last ...