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Community News July 22, 2026

ROLLER REUNION: The 146th Roller Family Reunion will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Green Township Building, 12184 Lisbon Road, Salem (Greenford). Guests are asked to bring a covered dish, if possible. All Roller relatives are encouraged to attend. The Roller family are descendants of Jacob and Mary Hammar Roller, who emigrated from Wurttemberg, Germany, in the mid-1700s, settling in York County, Pa. Four of the couple’s sons, John, Balser, Michael and Caleb, eventually traveled west and settled in Mahoning and Columbiana counties and are buried in Washingtonville, on land that they ...

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Woman doesn’t know how she got stab wound

Local News July 22, 2026

YOUNGSTOWN — A woman reported being stabbed in her abdomen while setting traps for feral kittens near a wooded area on the East Side but does not know how she got the stab wound. Officers were called to the ESA apartments in the area of 600 Kendis Circle at 2:08 a.m. Tuesday for a woman with a possible stab wound. When officers located her near a car, she was applying pressure to a one-inch gash on the bottom left side of her stomach that appeared to be about a quarter-inch deep. She said she was near the end of the fence line near a wooded area setting a trap for feral kittens. ...

Kaylee Hottle, deaf ‘Godzilla’ actor, killed in car crash at 18

National News July 22, 2026

Kaylee Hottle, a deaf actor best known for her starring role in two “Godzilla” films, died in a car crash in Maryland early Tuesday morning, the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office said. She was 18. Hottle was one of two passengers in the car when it went off the road and hit a culvert in Ijamsville before 3 a.m. The driver was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and the other passenger declined medical treatment, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office. Excessive speed is believed to be a factor in the crash, which is under investigation, ...

Average national gas price hits $4 again, AAA reports

Business News July 22, 2026

Staff report Gas prices are a penny higher in Northeast Ohio this week at $3.916 per gallon, according to Monday’s AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline has gone up 13 cents over the past week and is now at $4 per gallon. Instability along the Strait of Hormuz is contributing to the increase at the pump and pushing crude oil prices over $90 per barrel. Earlier this year, the national average remained in the $4 range all of April and May and most of June. Last time the national average was $4 or above was on June 17 when it ...