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Summer weather coming in hot

Another week of blistering heat will bring even more health risks in the coming days, as overnight temperatures won’t provide much relief. The National Weather Service is predicting that more than 90 temperature records across the U.S. will be tied or broken this week through Wednesday — ...

US launches attacks on Iran

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. launched strikes on Iran early Tuesday morning, hours after President Donald Trump said Washington is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump separately suggested the United States will charge other ships for safe passage, upending hundreds of years of American policy supporting freedom of navigation across the globe. Iran responded with attacks targeting Bahrain and two tankers associated with the United Arab Emirates traveling through the strait, killing one mariner and wounding eight others. The Emirates ...

Building a plan for a better Belmont continues

LIBERTY — There are about three more months before planning officials have to deliver a finalized plan to revitalize a frequently used corridor connecting Mahoning and Trumbull counties — and on Monday, residents received an update. Officials heard from Katie Philips, an MS Consultants ...

Seeking ‘Letters to Home’

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, as part of America 250-Ohio has created the "Letters to Home Trail" near the Mohican Memorial Shrine, which honors nearly 20,000 Ohioans who died in conflicts from World War II to today. The trail will feature a series of interpretive signs sharing the actual words written home to families of Ohio service members during times of conflict. Project organizers are particularly seeking to ensure strong representation from the Korean War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, Afghanistan War and Iraq War, and are reaching out to veterans and their ...

Trump reinstates blockade of Strait of Hormuz

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and will charge ships for safe passage, after another heavy exchange of fire threatened negotiations aimed at ending the war. President Donald Trump said on social media Monday that Iranian ships will no longer be able to travel through the strait and America would charge a 20% toll on eligible cargo, as the conflict with Iran has intensified after peace talks failed to deliver meaningful progress. “We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is ...