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Community News September 29, 2026

GIRARD BOARD OF CONTROL will meet at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the city hall meeting room. YOUNGSTOWN CITY COUNCIL will have a staff meeting at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the city hall caucus room. COITSVILLE TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES will have a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the township hall t o discuss changes to the township policy book and township cybersecurity plan. MAHONING COUNTY COMMISSIONERS will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the conference room at the administration building for a staff meeting. MAHONING VALLEY SANITARY DISTRICT will meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the district assembly ...

Walmart says it’s not using personal information to set prices as it expands digital shelf labels

Business News September 29, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart is aiming to assuage customers’ fears about its new pricing technology as it rolls out digital price labels at its stores. In a statement posted on the company’s website, Walmart Inc.’s CEO John Furner vowed that the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer isn’t using personal information like income, shopping history or a customer’s willingness to pay to set prices, and it won’t be doing so in the future either. “We don’t set different prices based on who you are or the time of day, and we won’t,” Furner wrote Friday. “Whether you’re ...

Car show benefits Angels for Animals

Local News September 28, 2026

The 5th annual Cars Cats & Canines Car Show benefiting Angels for Animals in Canfield featured classic cars, muscle cars, street cars, custom builds and unique rides. This year’s event included food, beer, wine, live music from the Don Tanner Band, shelter tours, raffle baskets and numerous dogs walking the grounds with their owners soliciting donations to help Angels for Animals.

ODOT money not an option for possible gas holiday

Local News September 28, 2026

Republicans in the state Legislature abandoned plans to use Ohio Department of Transportation’s nonexistent cash reserves for a proposed 90-day gas holiday and instead will try to pass a bill with money from the general revenue fund paying for it. The change is the result of ODOT’s largest fund, for highway operating, not having money to cover the cost, which increased from an estimated $678 million to $726 million in just five days to cover the loss from the proposed 90-day state gas tax suspension plan. Identical bills, with the changes, were introduced Monday by Republicans in ...

EEOC files discrimination lawsuit against Bon Secours Mercy Health

Local News September 28, 2026

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court alleging that Mercy Health Physicians Youngstown and Bon Secours Mercy Health in Youngstown violated federal law by allegedly subjecting a Jewish orthopedic surgeon to unfavorable terms and conditions of employment and firing him because of his religion and race shortly after the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks in Israel. The Sept. 23 complaint is assigned to Judge Charles E. Fleming in Cleveland. The suit alleges that the surgeon, of Geauga County, filed a charge of discrimination with the ...

Ohio’s electric infrastructure to get $273M upgrade

Local News September 28, 2026

Ohio’s existing high-voltage electric infrastructure will be updated through $273 million in funding. The U.S. Department of Energy is providing $136 million through its Speed to Power through Accelerated Reconductoring and other Key Advanced Transmission Upgrades (SPARK) initiative while Ohio’s utility companies are paying $137 million for the improvement work. The funding will upgrade existing power lines in the state. Gov. Mike DeWine said: “Upgrading existing infrastructure makes sense and this grant opportunity allows us to do that. Ohio, like much of the country, is ...