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Ex-FirstEnergy executives reindicted in corruption scheme

COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced Thursday that a grand jury has reindicted two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives whose initial prosecutions in the state’s long-running $60 million bribery scandal ended in mistrial earlier this year. Yost, a Republican, joined ...

Trump announces $700M for coal industry

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is again seeking to boost the struggling U.S. coal industry, announcing a plan Thursday to spend nearly $700 million to support coal-fired power plants and coal exports. Trump said the administration will use authority under a Cold War-era national ...

Malloy elected Trumbull Republican chairman

WARREN — While a brand new slate of officers, led by Denny Malloy as chairman, is running the Trumbull County Republican Party, plenty of discord and infighting remain. Malloy, who lost reelection in the Republican primary for his county commissioner seat, beat Jim Dunlap, the party’s outgoing first vice chairman, 42-36 during a Thursday vote of GOP central committee members. After the win, Malloy said, “We know there’s a lot of work to do in this part, but we all have the same goal. We all want to win the Super Bowl. We’re just teams in the same division and we’re all ...

Cardinal Mooney wins first baseball regional championship

CANTON — The Cardinal Mooney baseball team had only suffered three losses entering Thursday. One was to Archbishop Hoban, another to Ursuline and finally to Canton Central Catholic. The Cardinals got a little payback on Thursday, however, as they beat CCC 5-4 to win a Division IV regional ...

State capital budget includes funds for Valley

Mahoning County would receive $13,178,601 from the state’s capital budget, with about $10.7 million going to Youngstown State University, while Trumbull would get $3,022,500 under the spending plan approved by the Ohio Senate. Not including YSU, Mahoning would get $2,471,079 for 10 projects, while Trumbull would receive funding for 12 projects. The Senate approved the capital budget 31-0 Wednesday. The state House still has to vote on the proposal. The state’s capital budget, which is approved by the state Legislature every two years, totals $3.7 billion and includes $208 ...

Poland’s season comes to end with loss to Waynedale

MASSILLON — The Poland baseball team fought to the bitter end, but the Bulldogs saw their season come to a close at the hands of the defending state champion on Thursday. Poland had no answer for Apple Creek Waynedale’s Brayden Steiner, who led the Golden Bears on the mound and at the ...