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Zuckerberg spokesperson says his yacht didn’t hear maritime assist call

National News August 12, 2026

A yacht owned by Mark Zuckerberg didn’t respond immediately to a call for help from a skiff that ran out of fuel off the coast of Alaska, but a maritime law expert said Monday the crew may not have been obligated to after the Coast Guard determined the boat wasn’t in distress. A spokesperson for the Meta CEO also said the crew didn’t immediately hear the radio call for help and by the time it did, another nearby ship had already rendered assistance. The Aug. 3 incident gained attention in recent days after a passenger on the cruise ship posted on social media that the captain ...

Beloit siblings win top awards at Ohio State Fair

Local News August 12, 2026

BELOIT — Two West Branch Local School District students won prestigious prizes at the recent Ohio State Fair in Columbus. Zayden Wooten, 13, who will be an eighth grader at West Branch this year, was named Southdown Breed Champion in the Junior Market Lamb Show on July 29. For junior ...

US stocks edge further from their records as oil prices keep swinging

Business News August 12, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks slipped a bit further from their records Tuesday, while oil prices kept swinging on uncertainty about when the war with Iran will allow crude to flow freely again. The S&P 500 fell 0.3% for a second modest drop since setting its all-time high on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 184 points, or 0.3%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 0.6%. The action was stronger in the oil market, where the price for a barrel of Brent crude briefly jumped above $90 in the morning before falling back below $87. It eventually settled at $88.91, up 1.4% from ...

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Boy taken to JJC after Safehouse facility attack

Local News August 12, 2026

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown police took a boy to the detention facility at the Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center following a Monday morning attack in a room at a Safehouse Residential Services facility on Eastview Avenue off Jacobs Road on the city’s East Side. A Youngstown police report states that officers were called to the facility at 9:39 a.m. Monday for an assault and spoke with staff members and an administrator who said the boy entered another child’s room, despite it being locked. The boy bypassed the lock by using a plastic comb, the report states. The boy then ...