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County help sought for abused animals

BOARDMAN — Regular services have effectively ceased at Animal Charity of Ohio, and that will remain the case until additional funding is secured. On Thursday, leaders of the nonprofit agency again petitioned Mahoning County commissioners to provide support it needs to get back on its ...

Property transfers for Aug. 29

Mahoning County property transfers recorded Aug. 10-14 and transfers from portions of Trumbull County recorded Aug. 17-21: Austintown Walter Terlecky Investments LLC to Westchester Property Group LLC, 60 Westchester Drive, $305,000 Walter D. Terlecky to Westchester Property Group LLC, ...

Death toll in Nepal floods rises to 600

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers pulled out survivors caked in dark brown mud and helicopters lifted stranded people to safety, as Nepal and China raced to respond to catastrophic flash floods that killed nearly 600 people and left almost 2,500 missing. The rescue efforts included a team ...

Trump renames Lake Ontario Lake America amid trade war

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as “Lake America” in the United States as he escalates his trade war with Canada. The president signed an executive order Thurdirecting the Interior Department to update the lake’s name in the U.S. ...

Report: Boy kept in cage 6 hours daily

YOUNGSTOWN — A boy rescued from a locked dog cage during an Aug. 3 house fire told doctors and police he was routinely kept in a cage for several hours a day. A Youngstown police report states the 11-year-old told authorities his father routinely made his mother and sister confine him in the cage for six hours each day. The boy’s father, Franklin Heisler, 67, and mother, Chu Yue Zheng, 33, turned themselves in Tuesday at the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office on third-degree felony charges of child endangering stemming from the investigation. Both remained in the Mahoning County ...

Judge blocks Trump’s mail-in ballot restrictions

A federal judge on Thursday halted — at least for now — attempts to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail voting. The move stalled the directive for a second time only about a week before the first mail ballots are due to be sent out for the rapidly approaching midterm elections. U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani placed a 14-day hold on the government implementing the order in a case that could be headed back to the Supreme Court, which on Monday overturned an earlier ruling of hers that had blocked Trump’s order from taking ...