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The Vindicator seeking breast cancer survivors

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The Vindicator plans to honor breast cancer survivors during Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October. The idea is to put a human face on this disease, to help those diagnosed by hearing voices of those who have experienced the journey, and to spotlight therapies and support that helped. We also will honor the memories of those who lost their battle. To share your story, or to honor someone and tell how they inspired you during their struggles and triumph with breast cancer, send a brief description to Metro Editor Marly Reichert at mreichert@tribtoday.com or by mail to 240 ...

Tea party toasts tradition, gardening and community

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BOARDMAN — Flower-adorned hats, homemade treats, fragrant teas and floral inspiration came together Sunday as the Holborn Herb Growers Guild hosted its annual Tea Party at the Lariccia Family Community Center in Boardman Park. The afternoon event invited guests to slow down and enjoy a ...

Pope will retrace his missionary footsteps in Peru and visit Argentina in November

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ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV will retrace his steps as a missionary priest when he returns to Peru in November in his longest trip to date that will also take him to Uruguay and Argentina, where his Argentine predecessor Pope Francis never returned. The Vatican on Monday published the detailed itinerary for Leo’s first visit to Latin America as pope. The Nov. 6-17 trip will be a homecoming for the U.S.-born pontiff who also has Peruvian citizenship and spent two decades there as a priest and bishop. As he showed during his four-nation Africa trip in April, the 71-year-old Leo has no ...

On the record

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Trumbull County WHAT: Trumbull Career & Technical Center board meeting Sept. 10 The board: • Approved an agreement with the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office for a school resource officer at a cost of $83,000. • Approved an agreement for the certified nursing association program students for supervised nursing aide experiences at Otterbein Senior Living Skilled Nursing facility and concurrent in-service for high school Health Science Academy students preparing for certified nursing assistant certification also at the facility. • Approved the landscaping program’s trip to ...

Attorney: Man shot by ICE officer is detained with a bullet still in his back

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Venezuelan man shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was in custody Monday at an ICE detention center in Texas after he was released from a hospital with a bullet still lodged in his back, according to a spokesperson for the man’s attorney. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was making a DoorDash delivery in the Texas capital of Austin on Sunday before he was shot during a traffic stop, said Fabiana Melendez Ruiz, a spokesperson for immigration attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch. Ruiz said that Perez called his wife around 12:30 p.m. Sunday ...

Sound of Music museum opens where the von Trapp story met Hollywood

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SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — An Austrian museum is alive with “The Sound of Music,” a first-ever venue devoted to the classic 1965 singalong movie starring Julie Andrews. The Sound of Music Salzburg museum, situated in an Austrian city famed for music and perhaps best known as the home of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, opened Sunday. The attendees included Elisabeth von Trapp, granddaughter of Georg and Agathe von Trapp, whose family story inspired the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical and Hollywood blockbuster. She continues to give guided tours of movie sites in Salzburg today. “It is ...