Agenda
• MAHONING COUNTY COMMISSIONERS will have a board meeting at 10 a.m. Thursday at the hearing room at the county courthouse basement. A staff meeting will be at 11 a.m. in the conference room at the administration building.
Youngstown marks Night Out
YOUNGSTOWN — A National Night Out event Tuesday at North Side Pool was a partnership between the religious organization NOW Youngstown and the city’s Parks and Recreation Department. National Night Out events take place across the country on the first Tuesday of August, and are meant to ...
Commissioner: Insight leaders still working to reopen Trumbull hospital
WARREN — When Trumbull County Commissioner Rick Hernandez questioned an official of the former Insight Hospital at Trumbull about whether its employees would be able to move their retirement accounts to new accounts, he was told they likely would be able to do so. However, Hernandez added that Dayne Walling, the Insight Health representative he spoke with, told him that hospital officials are still working to one day reopen the facility. To move forward, Insight officials will have to obtain new agreements with the building’s owner, Medical Properties Trust. “Dr. (Jawad) Shah ...
Authorities worry for teen girl’s safety
YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office has issued an Endangered Missing Child Alert for Zeniah Diaz, 13, who is missing. Zeniah was last seen July 27 in Youngstown. She was last seen wearing pajama pants and a gray shirt. She is believed to be with her noncustodial father, ...
Guatemala is on alert and evacuates hundreds of villagers after eruption of the Fuego volcano
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala remained on alert Tuesday after evacuating hundreds of people following an eruption the day before of the Fuego volcano, which is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire and one of Central America’s most active volcanoes. The country’s disaster management agency said 659 people were evacuated from eight villages in the danger area and are being housed in nearby shelters. The eruption started on Monday morning, with videos showing clouds of gas and ash above the volcano as lava and pyroclastic flows roll down. Claudinne Ogaldes, executive secretary of ...
Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeff Bezos lead $200M project to save threatened species
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Foundations funded and co-founded by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos have launched an initiative committing $200 million to revive 100 of Earth’s most threatened species, including endangered lemurs, salamanders, pangolins, pigs and echidnas. DiCaprio’s Re:wild and the Bezos Earth Fund are leading the Phoenix Species Project, the groups announced Tuesday. They call it the largest single fund in history dedicated exclusively to recovering critically endangered species. DiCaprio has for years been developing the idea of a major concerted effort to help species ...