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Local News September 4, 2026

Liberty WHAT: Board of Education meeting Aug. 24 PRESENT: Adam Earnhardt, Janine Hamilton, Hans Kirr, David Malone and John Simon The board: • Authorized a $500 stipend for engineering instructor and robotics coach Jacob Mellinger for preparing students for and taking them to the Trumbull County Educational Service Center drone racing competition, funded via a TCESC subgrant. • Declared a specified list of books and two food warmers obsolete and authorized Superintendent Brian Knight to dispose of them. • Approved an agreement between the district and the TCESC to ...

Campbell secures $2,500 AARP grant

Local News September 4, 2026

CAMPBELL — The importance of encouraging and incentivizing physical and mental fitness has received a significant boost — to the tune of a few thousand dollars. “It’s to increase exercise and the health of our citizens. It’s also letting them feel comfortable in new neighborhoods,” city Councilwoman Mary Janek, D-3rd Ward, said after Wednesday evening’s regular council meeting, the first since council returned from its summer recess. She was referring to a $2,500 AARP grant the city was awarded May 8 to promote safe walking routes and healthy aging in each of its four ...

PIGGING OUT AT 180TH CANFIELD FAIR

Local News September 4, 2026

CANFIELD — Nikki Bregar is happy to see her son showing his pig, though she’s probably more grateful for the likely indelible impact the experience will leave on him long after the dust settles and the last prize has been awarded. “This is his fourth year showing his pigs, and he ...

The Trump administration halted a Great Lakes project. Then Whitmer called Trump

National News September 4, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — An unexplained Trump administration hold on construction of a state-federal project aimed at preventing invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes was abruptly lifted this week, hours after a call to President Donald Trump by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The Army Corps had halted work without explanation on the Brandon Road Interbasin Project near Joliet, Illinois, in July, leaving officials in Illinois and Michigan struggling for answers about the pause even as environmental officials warned that invasive carp were being found alarmingly close to Lake ...

Trump appeals block on ballot restrictions to high court

Father, son convicted of killing mail carrier

Local News September 4, 2026

Staff report CLEVELAND — A federal jury convicted a father and son Thursday for their roles in the premeditated murder of an on-duty United States Postal Service letter carrier in March 2024. After a nearly two-week trial in front of U.S. District Judge Donald C. Nugent, Kaprise Sledge, 24, of Warren, and Thomas Sledge, 44 of Youngstown, were found guilty of murder of an officer and employee of the United States and using, carrying and discharging a firearm during and in Relation to a crime of violence. According to evidence presented to the jury, on March 2, 2024, the two men ...