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Wisconsin and Minnesota primaries next to feature progressive clash with Democratic establishment

National News August 11, 2026

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Progressive candidates for governor in Wisconsin and U.S. Senate in Minnesota are making their final pushes ahead of Tuesday’s election, increasing the pressure on a Democratic establishment that has spent the year on its heels. The primaries come a week after Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s divisive and costly U.S. Senate primary. El-Sayed’s victory has energized the left while stoking fears among Democratic Party leaders that the shift to the left, particularly in battleground states like Michigan and Wisconsin, will make ...

Getting their ducks in a row

Local News August 11, 2026

STRUTHERS — The Struthers Rotary Club unleashed 1,500 rubber ducks Saturday at Yellow Creek Park for its 16th annual event. “Everybody can buy a duck for only $5,” said Ryan Goist, former Rotary Club president. “We drop a bunch of rubber ducks down here in Yellow Creek. The winner of ...

NAACP wants elections board to move to Cobbin building

Local News August 11, 2026

YOUNGSTOWN — The president of the NAACP Youngstown/Mahoning County Branch wants the county board of elections to move to the W.J. Cobbin Office Tower on the city’s North Side, but the board’s director said the facility doesn’t meet its needs. In a Monday letter to the board, James Brown, the NAACP local president, wrote Cobbin Tower, where the organization is headquartered, “deserves serious consideration. Based on the information available, the facility appears to satisfy the board’s stated specifications while also offering substantial benefits to the citizens of Mahoning ...

Trump signs order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines

Man pleads guilty to aggravated robbery and kidnapping

Local News August 11, 2026

YOUNGSTOWN — James Blackwell, 26, pleaded guilty Monday to aggravated robbery with a gun specification and two counts of kidnapping in a Nov. 3, 2025, incident in Youngstown in which he was accused of walking up to a car and telling a woman he was going to kill her if she did not give him ...

AAA: Pump prices decline this week

Business News August 11, 2026

Staff report Gas prices are 19 cents lower in Northeast Ohio this week at $4.025 per gallon, according to Monday’s AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline has fallen 9 cents over the past week to $4. Crude oil prices are currently in the $80 per barrel range as uncertainty remains about when the Strait of Hormuz will resume normal operations. As of Monday, more than half of states are paying below $4 per gallon on average. Gas prices typically start going down this time of year, as many schools and universities begin fall ...