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Drew Allar stars as Steelers beat Packers in preseason opener

PITTSBURGH — Rookie Drew Allar threw for a pair of touchdowns and ran for another during an impressive debut as the Pittsburgh Steelers surged past the Green Bay Packers 28-9 in the preseason opener on Thursday night. Allar, a third-round pick from Penn State, was 10 of 13 for 154 yards, ...

Rate hikes for SOBE may get revisited

By DAVID SKOLNICK Staff writer The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio will meet Wednesday to consider whether it will rehear its June 24 decision to approve significant emergency rate increases for SOBE Thermal Systems LLC, which impacted all of its downtown Youngstown customers. The PUCO will consider requests for a rehearing from the city of Youngstown and the Office of the Ohio Consumers’ Counsel regarding the rate increases for SOBE’s customers. The PUCO approved steam heat rate increases for all SOBE customers with most of them paying 93% more, starting June 30, and an ...

Three US criminals executed in one day

Tennessee and Oklahoma put inmates to death within 30 minutes of each other Thursday and Alabama followed suit hours later as U.S. states executed three men by lethal injection in one day for the first time since 2010. The Tennessee man was executed for killing a motel maid in 1985 and the Oklahoma man for killing his girlfriend in 2003. In Alabama, a man was put to death for killing a 5-year-old girl he had offered to pay her mother to abuse. Having three executions in one day was a coincidence in scheduling, but reflected a trend of increased executions in the U.S. Eleven states ...

Guardians shut out by Tigers, 3-0

DETROIT — Keider Montero pitched three-hit ball into the seventh inning and the Detroit Tigers blanked the Cleveland Guardians 3-0 on Thursday despite failing to record a strikeout. The Tigers became the first team to blank an opponent without a strikeout since Rick Porcello did it to the ...

Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty on Friday to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, admitting matter-of-factly that he trailed the executive to an investor conference and gunned him down on a New York City street in 2024. Mangione, 28, said he made a gun with the aid of a 3D printer, traveled to New York and used a ruse — posing as an investor at a multibillion-dollar firm — to contact the company for details on the event. "On the morning of Dec. 4, 2024, I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan, and he died," Mangione told the ...

Cops continue manhunt in Boardman; suspect’s sister charged with felonies

BOARDMAN — Police are still looking for a man who led them on a foot chase through Applewood Acres on Wednesday evening. While the official report redacted his name, Boardman Police Chief Todd Werth said Stacey Dwayne Mahone Jr., 24, of Boardman, is wanted on felony warrants out of his ...