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NTSB releases report on fatal plane crash

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A person on the ground saw the moments leading up to the single-engine, four-seat Piper Comanche aircraft that crashed east of Middlefield on June 30, killing the pilot and its two passengers. The person reported that she saw the plane cross above the tree line into her property. Then the right wing dipped, while descending slightly. Then she saw the plane briefly return to level. But it then “made a sharp right turn, followed by a steep, nose down descent into a field.” The plane crashed at 3:35 p.m. into a cow pasture 1 mile east of its destination, the Geauga County Airport. ...

Judge OKs $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin said in a Monday ruling that the class-action settlement provides “meaningful relief” to affected authors and publishers. About 91% of the more than 482,000 books covered by the ruling have been claimed by authors or publishers who are now due payment. Plaintiff attorney Justin Nelson ...

Trumbull officials review excavation accidents

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WARREN — Finding ways to reduce the dangers of placing a new generation of fiber optic cabling throughout the county in ways that will not endanger residents and require greater responsibility from installers was the topic of a more than two-hour meeting Tuesday at the Trumbull County Commissioners hearing room. Last week, the commissioners met in an emergency meeting to discuss a series of accidents that have occurred in recent months during the installation of underground fiber optics cables. The discussions came to a head recently after Lumos Networks noted workers hit a gas line ...

Man arraigned three years later in 2022 kidnapping case

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YOUNGSTOWN — Bond was set at $750,000 Tuesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court when Terrance A. “Andy” Machen, 35, of Youngstown, was arraigned on two counts of kidnapping, two counts of felonious assault and one count of aggravated robbery — more than three years after he failed to appear for his original arraignment date. Judge Maureen Sweeney set bond at $750,000 after Machen’s attorney entered a not guilty plea to the charges, which stem from a July 31, 2022, incident, in which Machen and two other men were accused of kidnapping two men and assaulting a ...

Ohio EPA rejects blanket wastewater permit for all data centers

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Citing public opposition, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency rejected a request for a blanket permit for data centers to discharge wastewater and decided to consider each project individually. In a Tuesday ruling, the state EPA wrote: “After carefully reviewing the significant volume of public comments received on the draft National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System general permit for data centers, Ohio EPA has decided not to move forward with finalizing the general permit” that would have allowed data centers to dump wastewater into the state’s waterways. The EPA ...

YPD report details fatal May 18 crash on Route 711 entrance ramp

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YOUNGSTOWN — A Youngstown police crash report reveals that a 66-year-old Boardman man died in an early-morning motorcycle crash on the northbound entrance ramp to state Route 711 on May 18. The report states that Mark D. Backhaus, 66, of Hitchcock Road in Boardman, was driving his 2011 Harley Davidson FLH onto the ramp from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard at 3:31 a.m. when the motorcycle went off the road on the left shoulder at the curve and lost control before re-entering the on-ramp and landing on the road. Backhaus was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital and was listed ...