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Iran launches missiles at Israel during ceasefire JERUSALEM — Israel says Iran has launched missiles at it in the first such bombardment since a fragile ceasefire took effect in early April, complicating mediation efforts for a deal to end the war. Tehran had warned of retaliation after Israel on Sunday struck Beirut’s southern suburbs in defiance of Washington’s request days ago to stand down. Israel said the Iranian-backed Hezbollah fired at northern Israel earlier in the day. Israel’s attack on Beirut came a few days after the Lebanese and Israeli governments agreed to ...

Shooting suspects sought

TOLEDO — A search for suspects in Ohio who opened fire near a busy street festival stretched into Sunday after 12 people were wounded in the weekend shooting that sent crowds scrambling for cover in a historic Toledo neighborhood. Each of the dozen victims — ranging from teenagers to ...

Man, 31, was shot to death Sunday evening on Youngstown’s North Side

YOUNGSTOWN — A man, 31, was shot to death Sunday evening in the 200 block of Benita Avenue on the North Side of Youngstown. A suspect in the killing, Issac Chatman, 29, was at the scene when police arrived, according to a Youngstown police report released this morning. He was listed in ...

Ohio launches felony crime dashboard online

Ohio Crime Statistics Dashboard Ohio logged 1.16 million felony charges across all 88 counties over the past decade with 404,988 people involved. In the Mahoning Valley, 50,293 felony charges were filed in that time span, involving 21,104 individuals. That crime data and much more can be ...

Mass deportation to get billions in more funding

WASHINGTON (AP) — With virtually no strings attached, Congress is on the verge of providing a sizable infusion of cash to the Department of Homeland Security, powering President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda for the remainder of his term in the White House. The nearly $70 billion package, which cleared the Republican-held Senate in a middle of the night vote and now heads to the House, was declared a “rotten bill” by the Democratic leader and an “ATM for ICE” by pro-immigrant advocates. But for those aligned with Trump’s campaign promise for the largest mass ...