YOUNGSTOWN — Seeding the minds of area residents, the Mahoning County Soil and Water Conservation District hosted its second annual Pollinator Palooza on Saturday at the district’s office. The free, family-friendly event offered information to create and care for a healthier environment ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran sent its response to the latest U.S. proposal to end the Iran war via Pakistani mediators Sunday, but U.S. President Donald Trump quickly rejected it in a social media post as “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” Iranian state television reported that Tehran rejected the U.S. proposal as amounting to surrender, insisting instead on “war reparations by the U.S., full Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, an end to sanctions, and the release of seized Iranian assets.” Washington’s latest proposal addressed a deal to end the war, reopen the ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Lane Custead had a few things to say upon being introduced to something with a rough exterior, but an easygoing and carefree attitude. “Well, its skin is very thick, and it’s very big, really big,” Lane, 6, of Meadville, Pa., said. “It’s pretty cool.” Lane and ...
Gov. Mike DeWine said today he will appoint Andy Wilson, director of the Ohio Department of Public Safety, as the state’s next attorney general, to replace Dave Yost, who is resigning, effective June 7. DeWine, a Republican, said that Wilson will serve the final seven months of Yost’s unexpired term. DeWine said: “When I looked at going forward for the next seven months, I wanted someone who has high energy, someone who has real experience in the criminal justice area so Andy Wilson is clearly, in my mind, the right person although we had other very good people to pick ...
Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, said Sunday its first quarter profit jumped 25% as the Iran war disrupted oil supplies and raised prices. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia-based Aramco said it successfully shifted some oil exports to a pipeline to avoid the Strait of Hormuz, which has been disrupted by the war. On Sunday, the price of Brent crude, the international standard, rose 2.58% to to $103.91 per barrel. That’s below its heights above $119 during the war, but it’s still much more expensive than its roughly $70 level from late February before the fighting began. Aramco ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Newton V. Murphy II, 41, of Leffingwell Road in Canfield, was indicted last week on charges of felonious assault and misdemeanor domestic violence in a Jan. 3 altercation in which Murphy is accused of throwing a woman against a wall, repeatedly banging her head off of the floor and trying to throw her down the stairs. A Boardman police report states that the woman went to an urgent care facility Jan. 8 and told police she went there because of headaches she was having from an alleged assault by Murphy on Jan. 3. She said the assault began after she grabbed ...
