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The sell-off for AI stars worsens, while oil prices keep jumping

NEW YORK (AP) — The sell-off for winners of the artificial-intelligence boom deepened Friday and yanked stock markets lower worldwide. Oil prices, meanwhile, continued to jump because of the war with Iran. The S&P 500 fell 1% to finish its first losing week in the last three and only its third since the end of March. Just a couple days earlier, it had climbed within 0.5% of its all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 406 points, or 0.8%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 1.4%. Chip stocks and other AI darlings once again were at the center of the shaky trading. ...

Township receives letters of interest for Austintown seat

AUSTINTOWN — The township’s two remaining trustees have had their first look at seven applicants who wish to join the board. On Friday, township officials released the names of those who submitted letters of interest to be appointed as interim trustees in the wake of Robert Santos’s resignation from the board earlier this month. At the beginning of the July 6 regular trustees meeting, Santos announced he was stepping down immediately after having accepted a position with Mahoning County as Project Manager-Capital Programs. Per Ohio law, trustees Monica Deavers and Bruce ...

Paul Pelosi charged with hit-and-run, a misdemeanor, over collision with parked car

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was charged Friday with a misdemeanor hit-and-run over a collision with a parked car. Pelosi, 86, was driving his brown convertible July 3 in Yountville, California, a town in the heart of wine country, when he struck a legally parked car on the side of the road, the Napa County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement at the time. He briefly stopped and then allegedly drove away. The parked car was unoccupied and no injuries were reported. Pelosi did not have any alcohol in his system, according to the ...

NC man gets 5 to 7 1/2 years in prison in fatal Coitsville crash

YOUNGSTOWN — Robert C. Powell, 25, of North Carolina, who was working in the Youngstown area when he struck a car in the intersection of U.S. Route 422 and North Hubbard Road in Coitsville Township, killing its driver, was sentenced recently to 5 to 7 1/2 years in prison. Powell gets credit for 67 days already spent in the Mahoning County jail. Powell was convicted at trial of aggravated vehicular homicide, a second-degree felony, improperly handling a firearm in a motor vehicle and misdemeanor OVI. Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge Anthony Donofrio handed down the ...

Sojourn program sprouts wings in Selma, Alabama

YOUNGSTOWN — For several years, Marc Ellis has primed his young students for better understanding and appreciation of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and most recently, the children have worked to prime a butterfly that landed hundreds of miles away. “Everybody had some ...