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McDonald man gets 3 years for stealing copper, other materials

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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 ...

Auditor seeks equipment for Trumbull IT

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WARREN — Trumbull County Auditor Martha Yoder is asking county commissioners to provide an estimated $125,000 to replace equipment needed by the county’s Information Technology department. She is seeking an uninterruptible power supply battery backup for the IT department’s serving room. “It is nearing the end of life,” Yoder told the commissioners. “It will not be serviced by the provider after the end of this year.” Yoder noted the UPS protects hardware from damage resulting from power outages. She noted the cost of replacing the UPS will be approximately ...

Academy gets ready for school year

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YOUNGSTOWN — When Akiva Academy middle schoolers return to classes Sept. 8, they will do so in a brand new school. An open house and ribbon cutting took place Monday morning at the Altschuler Akiva Academy Goldstone-Mirkin Family Middle School at the Suzi Solomon Campus. The new school is in the former Allen’s Pharmacy Building across Gypsy Lane from the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown, where the students in grades 5 through 8 formerly were in a hallway at the back of the building. The Youngstown Area Jewish Federation and Akiva Academy broke ground on the new middle school ...

Edouard hits US land, dumps 12 inches of rain

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PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) — Tropical Storm Edouard made landfall Tuesday afternoon along the Texas-Louisiana border after picking up a late burst of strength in the Gulf of Mexico, bringing ashore heavy rains and setting off flood warnings along the coast. The storm made landfall in the small coastal community of Johnson Bayou, Louisiana, and was expected to rapidly weaken as it moved inland. The National Hurricane Center said the storm arrived with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph and had become slightly weaker as its center moved over southeastern Texas on Tuesday evening. In the ...

House approves plan to avert new shutdown

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed a short-term measure Tuesday to fund the federal government into early December, a move designed to avoid a chaotic shutdown as lawmakers campaign for reelection. Lawmakers needed to act before the fiscal year concludes at the end of September to avoid a funding lapse. They were determined not to bump up against that deadline during the campaign season following this past year’s historic shutdowns. The House passed the bill by a vote of 370-48. The Senate has already overwhelmingly approved the measure, so it now moves to President Donald ...