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Vance: Iran conflict is not ‘war’

Washington (AP) — Vice President JD Vance on Thursday rejected the use of the word “war” to describe the U.S. fighting with Iran as he steered clear of predicting that the six-month-old conflict would be over by November’s midterm elections, in which Republicans are trying to hang on ...

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Liberty WHAT: Board of Education meeting Aug. 24 PRESENT: Adam Earnhardt, Janine Hamilton, Hans Kirr, David Malone and John Simon The board: • Authorized a $500 stipend for engineering instructor and robotics coach Jacob Mellinger for preparing students for and taking them to the Trumbull County Educational Service Center drone racing competition, funded via a TCESC subgrant. • Declared a specified list of books and two food warmers obsolete and authorized Superintendent Brian Knight to dispose of them. • Approved an agreement between the district and the TCESC to ...

Campbell secures $2,500 AARP grant

CAMPBELL — The importance of encouraging and incentivizing physical and mental fitness has received a significant boost — to the tune of a few thousand dollars. “It’s to increase exercise and the health of our citizens. It’s also letting them feel comfortable in new neighborhoods,” city Councilwoman Mary Janek, D-3rd Ward, said after Wednesday evening’s regular council meeting, the first since council returned from its summer recess. She was referring to a $2,500 AARP grant the city was awarded May 8 to promote safe walking routes and healthy aging in each of its four ...

PIGGING OUT AT 180TH CANFIELD FAIR

CANFIELD — Nikki Bregar is happy to see her son showing his pig, though she’s probably more grateful for the likely indelible impact the experience will leave on him long after the dust settles and the last prize has been awarded. “This is his fourth year showing his pigs, and he ...

The Trump administration halted a Great Lakes project. Then Whitmer called Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — An unexplained Trump administration hold on construction of a state-federal project aimed at preventing invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes was abruptly lifted this week, hours after a call to President Donald Trump by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The Army Corps had halted work without explanation on the Brandon Road Interbasin Project near Joliet, Illinois, in July, leaving officials in Illinois and Michigan struggling for answers about the pause even as environmental officials warned that invasive carp were being found alarmingly close to Lake ...