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Busing issues take front seat at Youngstown BOE meeting

YOUNGSTOWN — LaToya Fornore is frustrated by what she and others see as a series of disconnects that hold the wheels on the vehicle of transportation. “I just want the district to do better,” Fornore, a parent-youth ambassador with the Boardman-based Early Childhood Resource Center, ...

US banning Canadian dairy products, most alcoholic beverages and motorcycles

TORONTO (AP) — The United States is banning the import of some dairy products and motorcycles from Canada along with most alcoholic beverages, the White House said Tuesday, as part of a trade war between the two neighbors and longtime allies that shows little sign of cooling off. The ban ...

Prosecutor: No felony charges for man accused of lunging at Acton

CANFIELD — Patrick Havas, who is alleged to have lunged at Amy Acton, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, during an incident Sunday afternoon at the Canfield Fair, did not commit any offenses that rise to felonies, Mahoning County Prosecutor Lynn Maro said. Havas, 38, of Canfield, was arrested Sunday on two counts of assault and one misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. An additional misdemeanor charge of inciting panic was added Tuesday during his arraignment in Mahoning County Area Court in Canfield in front of Judge Molly Johnson. Havas, who was armed at the time of his ...

Elections board considers former school for new home

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 ...

Nonviolence Week to step out Oct. 4 downtown

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past organization is preparing events, activities and gatherings for Ohio Nonviolence Week that gets underway early next month. Nonviolence Week, which runs Oct. 4 to 10, will begin with the 16th annual Nonviolence Parade and Rally, set for 3 ...

Iran touts new missile, vows swifter strikes

WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran state media on Monday said a ballistic missile with improved capabilities was demonstrating a new doctrine: Tehran “will take action against any threat, even before it is carried out.” The report by Iran’s state news agency repeatedly cited comments aired on state TV the day before by the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, who boasted of new missile capability and claimed it had been “tested” against a U.S. warship. But it was not clear whether what was tested was the missile the new report described, the ...