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Sirens revealed as Cleveland’s WNBA team name

CLEVELAND — Cleveland’s WNBA expansion team had three priorities for the franchise’s name. It had to have its own identity and not be related to the Cavaliers. It needed to tie into Lake Erie. And fans wanted something progressive. The Cleveland Sirens think they accomplished all three ...

Capsules – Aug. 5, 2026

CORRECTION In the July 31 edition of The Vindicator, in a staff report regarding the arrest and resignation of the former Mathews High School boys basketball coach, Michael Weymer was incorrectly referred to as Matt Weymer. The Vindicator regrets the error. Penn-Ohio golf outing on Aug. 8 The 21st annual Penn-Ohio Athletic Club Scholarship Fund Scramble Golf Outing will take place at Yankee Run Golf Course in Brookfield at 9 a.m. on Aug. 8. To register, visit pennohioathleticclub.com or call 7248137210. The fee is $100 per golfer. Hole sponsorships are also available. Ravens ...

Austintown trustees tap Ciccone to replace Santos

AUSTINTOWN — The township’s governing panel is fully staffed once again. At Monday’s regular meeting of the Austintown Township Trustees, trustees Bruce Shepas and Monica Deavers announced their appointment to fill the seat left vacant last month by the resignation of Robert ...

Trump: New talks are Iran’s ‘last chance’ to forge a deal

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has played this hand before during the 5-month-old Iran war — but this time, he insists it’s different. The president on Monday said that new talks between Washington and Tehran are the “last chance” for Iran to forge a deal and avoid an ...

Enbridge files counterclaim against city for Realty explosion

YOUNGSTOWN — Enbridge Gas Co. and its numerous affiliated companies, which are being sued by Youngstown officials for the deadly 2024 explosion at the former Realty Tower, filed a counterclaim against the city. In the counterclaim, Enbridge and its affiliated companies contend the city “breached its duties” by giving a $140,133 no-bid contract to GreenHeart Companies LLC. A four-person scrap-metal crew, engaged by GreenHeart — owned by Brian Angelili, managing partner of the company that owned the former downtown building — was working in a basement area underneath the ...

Rescuer finds, saves 11-year-old boy in a locked dog cage during fire

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Police Department and Youngstown Fire Department are investigating what is being called an arson early Monday in which an 11-year-old boy was rescued from a dog cage in a first-floor bedroom. An unidentified person rescued the boy from a locked dog cage while helping to rescue the boy and his family from a fire Monday on Forest View Drive on the East Side. A Youngstown police report does not state who the rescuer was, but the rescuer told Youngstown Fire Investigator Charles Hodge that he rescued the boy from “dog cage with three locks,” according to a ...