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Bayer agrees to $7.25B settlement over Roundup cancer lawsuits

Business News

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Agrochemical maker Bayer and attorneys for cancer patients announced a proposed $7.25 billion settlement Tuesday to resolve thousands of U.S. lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer. The proposed ...

Judge removes SOBE receiver

Local News

YOUNGSTOWN — A judge agreed to remove Reg Martin as receiver and Kenneth R. Goldberg as legal counsel for the beleaguered SOBE Thermal Energy LLC, which has failed to provide consistent steam heat to most of downtown Youngstown. In a Tuesday judgment entry, Mahoning County Common Pleas Court ...

Shepas outlines motives for seeking county office

Local News

AUSTINTOWN — Township trustee Bruce Shepas was the last one to throw his name into the hat for this year’s county commissioner race. On Friday, he explained why he decided now is the time for his campaign, less than three years since his election as a trustee. Mahoning County Commissioner ...

Austintown Senior Center gets building, program updates

Local News

AUSTINTOWN — The Austintown Senior Center just got a makeover and its new director has no plans to stop there. Brittany Koch, who was hired in November to replace longtime director Jim Henshaw upon his retirement, has been baptized by fire in her short time at the helm, but said she is ...

Boardman man seeks judicial release in felonious assault case

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YOUNGSTOWN — The attorney for Damian J. Cessna, 28, of Boardman, who was sentenced to four to six years in prison in June for a confrontation with a Boardman police officer July 13, 2021, has asked for a hearing to argue why Cessna should be granted early release from prison. Cessna, who got ...