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Iran fires on 3 ships in the Strait of Hormuz as US maintains blockade

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of them Wednesday, intensifying its assault on shipping in the key waterway. The attacks came a day after U.S. President Donald Trump extended a ceasefire while maintaining an American blockade of Iranian ports. The standoff between the U.S. and Iran has effectively choked off nearly all exports through the strait — where 20% of the world’s traded oil passes in peacetime — with no end in sight. Iranian media said the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was bringing the two ships to ...

Latell files lawsuit against Trumbull recorder, her husband and county

Tod Latell, the former Trumbull County recorder, filed a federal lawsuit against current Recorder Dawn Zinni-Hanni; her husband, 7th District Court of Appeals Judge Mark Hanni; and Trumbull County alleging civil conspiracy, defamation and abuse of political authority or influence. The lawsuit states the “claims arise from the intentional, illegal, unlawful, willful, wanton, malicious, outrageous, oppressive, recklessly indifferent and/or negligent conduct of the defendants, individually and collectively, who all acted at least in part under color of state law to deprive plaintiff of ...

Franklin turns attention to city crime

WARREN — With a string of violent crimes lingering over the city in recent weeks, city officials hope to show a sense of community as they move past them. As part of his report at Wednesday’s regular city council meeting, Mayor Doug Franklin announced plans to address the community via a news conference at 10:30 a.m. today in city council chambers, alongside police Chief Eric Merkel. Franklin said he had the honor and duty of attending Tuesday’s balloon release vigil for Vontisha Williams following her death in a shooting last week. “There were probably about 75 family ...

Trumbull chief deputy clerk of courts indicted

WARREN — A Liberty trustee accused of assaulting a woman last fall was indicted Thursday after the case had been continued several times during Trumbull County grand jury sessions. Devon Stanley, a Liberty trustee, Girard Municipal Court prosecutor and the county’s deputy clerk of ...

Hubbard Township to join gas aggregation program

WARREN — Hubbard Township residents will remain in Trumbull County’s gas aggregation program thanks to the work of the county’s new supplier, Palmer Energy, and work done by the county’s prosecutor office and county commissioners. Township residents feared they would not be able to participate in the county’s new gas aggregation program with Palmer Energy because the company did not include the township as part of the program. Palmer Energy was notified by Tom Bellish of Buckeye Energy Brokers, which is the county’s current aggregation supplier, that Hubbard Township and ...

Champion clucks over free-range chickens

CHAMPION — A residential neighborhood is dealing with free-roaming chickens that have taken to roosting on parked cars, commandeering front porches, strutting down sidewalks and leaving their unwelcome “deposits” across neighborhood yards. Township trustees at their meeting Tuesday said they have heard from residents regarding chickens roaming on Clearview Avenue. Trustee Chairman Doug Emerine said while there are guidelines on chickens and other poultry in zoning codes that were approved in 2007, he said there were properties in the township that were grandfathered in since ...