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Hope emerges for customers of SOBE energy

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By DAVID SKOLNICK Staff writer YOUNGSTOWN — An option for downtown Youngstown businesses to get off SOBE Thermal Energy System LLC’s steam heat system involving a state treasurer program, a credit union and a contracting firm is in its preliminary phase, but a resolution could be forthcoming. Various state officials met Tuesday with some SOBE customers and others to discuss the proposal. State Sen. Al Cutrona, R-Canfield, who organized the meeting, said: “This is a really great outside-the-box approach to solve a tremendous issue impacting downtown Youngstown. A finished ...

Woman doesn’t know how she got stab wound

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YOUNGSTOWN — A woman reported being stabbed in her abdomen while setting traps for feral kittens near a wooded area on the East Side but does not know how she got the stab wound. Officers were called to the ESA apartments in the area of 600 Kendis Circle at 2:08 a.m. Tuesday for a woman with a possible stab wound. When officers located her near a car, she was applying pressure to a one-inch gash on the bottom left side of her stomach that appeared to be about a quarter-inch deep. She said she was near the end of the fence line near a wooded area setting a trap for feral kittens. ...

Kaylee Hottle, deaf ‘Godzilla’ actor, killed in car crash at 18

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Kaylee Hottle, a deaf actor best known for her starring role in two “Godzilla” films, died in a car crash in Maryland early Tuesday morning, the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office said. She was 18. Hottle was one of two passengers in the car when it went off the road and hit a culvert in Ijamsville before 3 a.m. The driver was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and the other passenger declined medical treatment, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office. Excessive speed is believed to be a factor in the crash, which is under investigation, ...

Average national gas price hits $4 again, AAA reports

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Staff report Gas prices are a penny higher in Northeast Ohio this week at $3.916 per gallon, according to Monday’s AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline has gone up 13 cents over the past week and is now at $4 per gallon. Instability along the Strait of Hormuz is contributing to the increase at the pump and pushing crude oil prices over $90 per barrel. Earlier this year, the national average remained in the $4 range all of April and May and most of June. Last time the national average was $4 or above was on June 17 when it ...

Body of missing man found near reservoir

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Staff report BERLIN CENTER — Searchers found the body of missing North Olmsted man Sean Miller near the boat docks off Bedell Road at Berlin Reservoir sometime after 7 a.m. Tuesday. The Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office issued a notice Monday that the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office and Ohio Department of Natural Resources were looking for Miller, who had been missing since about 2 a.m. Monday from the campgrounds at the reservoir. An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday, the sheriff’s office advised. Mahoning County deputies, Ohio Department of Natural Resources personnel ...

War in Iran has cost US $37.5B

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced questions and protests Tuesday over the U.S. war with Iran, which he estimated has cost $37.5 billion so far, as Republicans prepare a $95 billion GOP budget package to fund the military, along with other White House ...