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Defendants want separate trials in bizarre 2024 murder

Local News September 3, 2026

YOUNGSTOWN — Two men set for trial Sept. 21 in the Oct. 17, 2024, bizarre shooting death of Reynaldo Hernandez, 24, at the home of co-defendant Andre K. Bailey on Bott Street on the East Side are are asking Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge R. Scott Krichbaum to try them separately. On Aug. 17, Eddie Winphrie, 43, asked to be tried separately from co-defendant Vincent Marbley, 61, saying that if Winphrie testified, Winphrie’s testimony “would tend to implicate” Marbley as to Marbley’s “potential complicity” in the case. Winphrie’s filing states that being tried ...

Symbolic funerals held in Nepal for those feared lost

International News September 3, 2026

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Tourists previously reported missing in Nepal have made contact with authorities, officials said Wednesday, as families of locals still unaccounted for after last week’s catastrophic floods held symbolic funerals for their loved ones. Nepal’s Foreign Ministry ...

Jury in trial of Lindsay Clancy remains deadlocked

National News September 3, 2026

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial went home without a verdict Wednesday following a fifth day of deliberations and twice saying they can’t agree whether the Massachusetts mother is criminally responsible for killing her three young children. The jury will return ...

Immigrant rights group seeks to block use of federal databases it says could purge legal voters

National News September 3, 2026

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An immigrant rights group sued the Trump administration Wednesday to block the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from using federal databases that it alleged are being used to target naturalized citizens who are eligible to vote. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District ...

Pabst Blue Ribbon offers $20,000 reward to help find missing beer

National News September 3, 2026

The Associated Press Pabst Blue Ribbon wants its beer back, and it’s offering a reward to help that happen. Greig DeBow, the CEO of Pabst Brewing Co., said Wednesday that the company will pay up to $20,000 to anyone who provides new information that leads to the recovery of 1,602 cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon and nonalcoholic Old Milwaukee beer. The beer went missing Aug. 17 in Southern California. “I’m sure they look cool with a garage full of PBR,” DeBow said in a post on TikTok. “That’s actually not cool though. We want it back.” Police in Montclair, California, ...