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Public session planned for skilled trades expo

Business News September 9, 2026

Staff report Public hours are returning to the seventh annual Mahoning Valley Skilled Trades Expo this year, giving anyone curious about a hands-on career the chance to pick up a tool, meet the pros and explore what’s possible. The community may attend from 2 to 4 p.m. Sept. 22 at the Michael Kusalaba Event Center, Building 36, Canfield Fairgrounds. Enter through Gate 9, off state Route 46. No registration is required, and admission and parking are free. More than a dozen building construction trades will be on display through hands-on exhibits and live demonstrations. ...

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Sharon man accused of driving while under influence

Local News September 9, 2026

LIBERTY — A Sharon man faces charges after Liberty police said they observed him committing multiple traffic violations and striking a divider Saturday. David Gammon, 44, pleaded not guilty to two charges of operating a vehicle while impaired and a charge of open container in front of Girard Municipal Court Judge Jeffery Adler on Tuesday morning. According to a police report, an officer traveling southbound on Belmont Avenue near Interstate 80 noticed a white Kia Soul leaving the highway onto Belmont, heading northbound. The vehicle crossed both lanes and struck the center curb ...

Singapore man pleads to orchestrating $240M bitcoin theft from DC resident

International News September 9, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — A 22-year-old man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to teaming up with friends to steal nearly a quarter-billion dollars in bitcoin from a Washington, D.C., resident — one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts in U.S. history — and then embarking on a wild spending spree with the laundered proceeds. Malone Lam, an eighth-grade dropout who came to the U.S. from Singapore, faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years after pleading guilty to a federal racketeering conspiracy charge. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly didn’t immediately schedule Lam’s sentencing ...

Midterm candidates enter home stretch

National News September 8, 2026

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Troy Jackson was a longtime labor activist and logger before he unexpectedly became the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine. On Monday, he returned to a union hall to tell workers they need to go to the polls this fall — to raise the minimum wage, expand ...