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Congress unveils $95B plan for Iran war, voting reforms

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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a $95 billion package focused on boosting defense, aiding farmers and enacting stricter voter registration rules, a sequel to the massive tax and spending Big Beautiful Bill Act that President Donald Trump signed into law last year. The 47-page bill, called a budget resolution, is designed to supplement Pentagon funding for the Iran war and address Trump’s top priority of changing voter registration requirements. A more ambitious version of the bill was narrowed to address concerns of conservatives about how it would be ...

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• BOARDMAN PARK COMMISSIONERS will meet at 8 a.m. Thursday at the Georgeanna Parker Activity Center. • JACKSON-MILTON BOARD OF EDUCATION will meet at 7 a.m. Wednesday at the high school. • MAHONING COUNTY COMMISSIONERS board meeting will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Tyler History Center in Youngstown, with the staff meeting at 11:30 a.m. in the conference room at the county administration building.

Official updates Liberty road projects

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LIBERTY — Community improvements have quite literally been front and center for anyone navigating the Churchill portion of Belmont Avenue, and trustees learned the status of these and other ongoing improvements. At Monday’s meeting, trustees heard from Road Superintendent Wayne Hickman, who said the “never-ending” Belmont Avenue sidewalk project, which kicked off March 30, is undergoing some design changes. “We changed the design at the corner of (State Route) 304, (State Route) 193 to go behind the telephone poles; that’s why it’s been sitting stagnant,” Hickman ...

Nation and world at a glance for July 15

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Darline Graham, sister of late SC senator sworn in to finish term WASHINGTON — The sister of the late South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham has been sworn in to fill his seat, just three days after his death. Darline Graham, left, was sworn in at the Senate on Tuesday. She was appointed ...

Man, 74, becomes oldest inmate executed in Florida

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STARKE, Fla. (AP) — Florida put to death one of its oldest prisoners in its history on Tuesday, a 74-year-old convicted murderer who was one of three older inmates scheduled for execution within the span of a month in the nation’s busiest death penalty state. Dennis Sochor was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. He was convicted of killing Patricia Gifford on Jan. 1, 1982, just hours after meeting the 18-year-old woman at a New Year’s Eve party. Sochor was already strapped to a gurney with an IV in his arm when the ...

Home healthcare service fetes new site in Liberty

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LIBERTY — Owners of a local provider of nonmedical home health care services expressed hopes to continue collaboration with different patients and clients — and a facility designed to facilitate that was celebrated Tuesday afternoon. FirstLight Home Care of the Valley, joined by public ...