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Spill closes Liberty road for 8 hours

Local News August 15, 2026

LIBERTY — Tibbetts Wick Road has reopened since Thursday afternoon’s spill, but the township’s fire chief says more work will happen before the road is completely cleared of its residue. Fire Chief Doug Theobald said Friday that the spill was caused by a truck that was traveling east when a car pulled out in front of him and caused the driver to slam on his brakes and swerve left. “(He) missed the car, but the material on the truck shifted forward and then overflowed from the trailer onto the road,” Theobald said. “The material was very, for lack of a better description, ...

YSU history professor coauthors book on Civil War

Community News August 15, 2026

When Amy Fluker’s new book debuted at the Society for Civil War Historians conference in Richmond, Virginia, it marked both a professional milestone and a deeply personal promise fulfilled. “Haunted by Memory: Ghost Stories of the American Civil War,” released in May, grew from the ...

Initial weekly unemployment claims down

Business News August 15, 2026

Staff report Ohioans filed 4,166 initial unemployment claims the week of Aug. 2-8, which was 251 fewer than the previous week. Ohioans filed 41,557 continued unemployment claims last week, which was 710 fewer than the previous week. The total number of claims filed for the period was 45,723. Ohio’s unemployment rate in June was 3.6%. The national unemployment rate in June was 4.2%. Ohio’s labor force participation rate in June was 61.6%. The national labor force participation rate in June was 61.5%.

Local News August 15, 2026

U.S. Sen. Jon Husted has given $34,300 in contributions from Les Wexner, who had longtime ties to notorious child sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein, to an anti-human trafficking charity, but he won’t give the other $45,600 he’s received from Wexner despite having more than $6.1 million in his state campaign fund. Amy Natoce, Husted’s campaign spokeswoman, said the campaign donated “all available funds” to the charity, Freedom a la Cart. That didn’t include the other $45,600 Husted, a Republican, received from Wexner. Wexner, a New Albany billionaire, is listed as an Epstein ...

Some US adults are using AI for financial guidance but few trust it, Gallup poll finds

Business News August 15, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — Some U.S. adults are using artificial intelligence for financial guidance, but it’s far from the most trusted source of advice, according to a new Gallup survey conducted in partnership with Edward Jones, a financial services firm. About 1 in 5 Americans who have sought ...