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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 ...

Despite diplomacy, attacks in Middle East drag on

The Associated Press Qatar and other regional powers sought an off-ramp from the war with Iran on Thursday as another tanker attack was reported in the Strait of Hormuz, and the Iranian government dismissed the Trump administration’s latest sanctions. Elsewhere in the Middle East, Israel continued its attacks on Gaza and Lebanon even as the country’s strikes on Gaza drew a sharp rebuke from the top diplomat overseeing the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in the territory. DIPLOMACY EFFORTS Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani was in Tehran on Thursday as part of Qatar’s efforts ...

Brookfield, Newton Falls feeling good going into Week 2

Last Friday, the Brookfield Warriors opened their season in grand fashion, defeating backyard rival Hubbard 14-7. It marked the first Brookfield win over Hubbard in 28 years, and it snapped a 14-game losing streak against the Eagles. It was also the first win over Hubbard for Brookfield ...

Property tax bills go out, due Sept. 18

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County property owners will have until Sept. 18 to pay their second-half real estate taxes after changes in state law delayed the mailing of tax bills. The adjusted bills are expected to begin going out within the next few days, Mahoning County Treasurer Daniel Yemma explained in a news release. The delay stems from House Bill 186, among several property tax reform measures approved by the Ohio Legislature last year. The bill created an Inflation Cap Credit for qualifying properties, intended to limit increases in certain unvoted school property taxes resulting ...

Jury deliberates Clancy triple-murder case

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial began deliberating a verdict Thursday, tasked with deciding whether she was in control of herself when she killed her three children, or had lost her grip on reality due to mental illness. In her closing argument, a ...

Bosnian-Serb general guilty of war crimes dies

LGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces besieged the Bosnian capital for several years in the 1990s and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, died Thursday while serving a life sentence for his crimes, U.N. officials said. He ...