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Today at 180th Canfield Fair | Schedule, prices

Admission prices Youth (7-12): $4 Adult (13+): $6 Senior Citizen (62+): $4 Schedule of events 9 a.m. — Rabbit Meat Pen Judging, Junior Fair Small Animal Barn No. 35 10 a.m. — Adult Saddle Horse Pleasure Classes, East Ring 10 a.m. — Carcass Lamb Ultrasound, Junior Fair South ...

Fitch choir gets ready for golf outing

AUSTINTOWN — It’s late summer, and that means it’s time to start planning for the Austintown Fitch High School Concert Choir golf outing fundraiser Oct. 17. The choir completed its 53rd annual tour in April, singing for two veterans hospitals in Virginia, and the fourth annual golf outing to support their next trip will be in October. The event will again be at Old Avalon in Warren, and funds will support the choir’s trip to New York and New Jersey in April. The choir plays concerts every spring at veterans facilities around the country, and Fitch Choir Director Bill Klein ...

Fighting in US war intensifies

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military hit targets in Iran on Tuesday and Tehran fired missiles and drones at many sites across the region in response as hostilities intensified in the intermittent war that has lasted more than six months. One U.S. strike hit a home hosting a wedding, killing ...

USS Lincoln arrives in Thailand after 250 days at sea

LAEM CHABANG, Thailand (AP) — The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier arrived in eastern Thailand early Wednesday after its grueling deployment in the Middle East. Associated Press journalists watched the Lincoln, which is carrying about 5,000 service members, approach Laem Chabang port in Chonburi province shortly after the destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. sailed passed the area. The ship had been supporting the U.S. war against Iran. Its deployment included a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 250 days. Concerns have grown about the Lincoln’s lengthy ...

McDonald man gets 3 years for stealing copper, other materials

WARREN — Brian J. Clay, 52, of West Fifth Street in McDonald, was sentenced to three years in prison Monday after being found guilty at trial of being a felon in possession of a firearm, misdemeanor theft and misdemeanor possessing criminal tools for stealing copper and other materials from a McDonald business. Clay’s trial lasted one day before Judge Cynthia Westcott of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. The jury deliberated about 30 minutes before announcing its verdict. Wescott immediately sentenced Clay after that. The charges related to an Oct. 30, 2025, incident in which ...

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SEEKING INFO ON VETERANS: Local historian Steffon Wydell Jones is seeking information and looking for family members in the Youngstown area who are related to veterans who served in the 65th Regiment out of Puerto Rico during the Korean War. Plans are for a program on their families of the famed regiment. For information, call Jones at 330-301-7365. VENDORS SOUGHT: Pink Out Mahoning Valley/Pink Out America, a nonprofit organization, is accepting applications from vendors and food trucks for the 2026 Pink Out Mahoning Valley Music Festival noon to 7 p.m. Oct. 4 at Austintown Township ...