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Canfield flies past Lakeside to open playoffs

CANFIELD — The Canfield softball team is no stranger to the postseason. And the Cardinals didn’t waste any time in their first tournament game of the spring. Canfield scored six runs in the bottom of the second inning of a Division III, Northeast 1 sectional fina lto easily take control ...

James Harden, Cavaliers a win away from conference finals

This may as well have been called The James Harden Experience. In the span of 22 seconds during overtime of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night, Harden did all this for the Cleveland Cavaliers — made a free throw, missed a free throw, ...

Pirates top Rockies in Endy Rodriguez’s MLB return

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Endy Rodriguez had two hits and drove in a pair of runs in his return to the majors and the Pittsburgh Pirates breezed past the Colorado Rockies 7-2 on Thursday. Rodriguez, a catcher once considered among the top prospects in Pittsburgh’s farm system before missing all ...

Pen pals promote health, learning

WARREN — St. Joseph Warren Hospital welcomed fourth-grade students from Warren’s Jefferson PK-8 School Wednesday morning as part of its annual Pen Pal Program, which connects students with Mercy Health caregivers and associates through reading, writing and mentorship. For the past 15 ...

DeChristofaro expects $20M in road work

WARREN — Trumbull County is expecting to do approximately $20 million worth of road projects in 2026, with approximately $7.5 million being paid for through federal and state grant programs, according to Engineer David DeChristofaro. He noted the county engineer’s department collected $10,019,490 in combined gas and license plate taxes in 2025. This was a slight decrease from the $10,200,243 collected in 2024. Five years ago, in 2021, the county collected $9,901,797 in these combined taxes. “This is about a 1% increase over the five-year period,” DeChristofaro said. “That is ...

Hubbard mayor addresses data center concerns

HUBBARD — Mayor Ben Kyle noted the controversial nature of data centers as part of the reason why he is inviting residents to attend Monday’s city council meeting. He also spoke about a nondisclosure agreement that was signed. In a news release Wednesday, Kyle said his administration and council have been engaged in Project Milo through Lake to River, one of the city’s regional economic development partners. Kyle said the project is an information technology project involving a company evaluating locations across the country to build data centers. He previously spoke of the ...