WARREN - Prosecutors want to see him in prison for the remainder of his life for brutally killing a 94-year-old inside her home in Niles. Defense attorneys argue there is no evidence of "irreparable corruption" and want him eligible for parole at some point in the distant future. The ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tens of millions of Social Security recipients and other retirees will get a 2.8 percent increase in benefits next year as inflation edges higher. For the average retired worker, it amounts to $39 a month. After a period of low inflation, the increase for 2019 is the ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — The third-most powerful hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland in recorded history left a wide path of destruction across Florida and Georgia, destroying homes and shopping centers and felling trees that killed at least two people. And it's not done yet. Hurricane ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service is seeking to increase the price of its first-class stamp by 5 cents to 55 cents to help stem its mounting red ink. If approved by regulators, the 10 percent increase to the cost of mailing a 1-ounce letter would be the biggest since 1991. The price ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An auction house says it will offer the original handwritten lyrics from the "crown jewel of the Elton John and Bernie Taupin songbook." Don't expect "Your Song" to sell for a song. Bonhams , the auctioneer, estimates the hammer will drop "in the six-figure range" during the ...

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — The heads of the World Bank and IMF appealed today to the U.S. and China to cool their dispute over technology policy and play by world trade rules, as tumbling share prices drove home potential perils from a clash between the world's two biggest economies. Global ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said today it discovered and destroyed a Hamas tunnel dug out from Gaza into Israeli territory, the 15th such tunnel threat it has thwarted over the past year. Military spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said the tunnel was about a half mile in ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The New York State Police say that the operator of a limousine company involved in a deadly crash has been arrested. A press release from the state police says Nauman Hussain was taken into custody following a traffic stop on a highway near Albany. No further details ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Michael's leading edge careened onto northwest Florida's white-sand beaches as a still-growing Category 4 hurricane this morning, lashing the coast with tropical storm-force winds and rain and pushing a storm surge that could cause catastrophic damage well inland once ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump told reporters he was considering five candidates to replace U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, and that a successor would be named in two to three weeks — or maybe sooner. Among those under consideration, Trump said, is former deputy national security ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Police had to remove a woman who brought an "emotional support squirrel" on a Frontier Airlines flight headed from Orlando, Florida, to Cleveland. Frontier says the passenger had noted in her reservation that she was bringing an emotional support animal with her on ...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — European Union officials are working on tougher auto emissions standards aimed at fighting global warming — but which the industry cautions could hurt workers and consumers. Officials from the council of EU member governments, parliament and the executive ...

WARREN - The nation's high court will reconsider hearing the case of convicted killer Danny Lee Hill, who, under a lower court's decision, stands to be removed from Ohio's death row. The announcement today the U.S. Supreme Court relisted the petition by the Ohio Attorney General's Office for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said this morning U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is leaving the administration "at the end of the year." Trump spoke as he and Haley met in the Oval Office, shortly after word came of her plans to resign. He called Haley a "very special" person, adding ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A fast and furious Hurricane Michael is speeding toward the Florida Panhandle with 120 mph winds and a potential storm surge of 13 feet, giving tens of thousands of people precious little time to get out or board up. Drawing energy from the warm waters of the Gulf of ...

YOUNGSTOWN - Victims of abuse at the hands of the Catholic Church have staged a Youngstown protest this afternoon in the hopes of triggering an statewide probe of the Catholic hierarchy by the Ohio Attorney General's office and "more aggressive" response by local police and prosecutors. The ...

LORDSTOWN - Lordstown Energy Center (LEC), the 940-megawatt, gas-fueled electricity generation plant recently constructed in Lordstown, has begun commercial operation, the plant announced moments ago. Pennsylvania native Drew Schneider has been named plant manager for the facility. Schneider ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said today he has no plans to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, delivering a reprieve for the Justice Department official whose future has been the source of intense speculation for two weeks. Trump told reporters at the White House that he ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The bitterly polarized U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday to join the Supreme Court, delivering an election-season triumph to President Donald Trump that could swing the court rightward for a generation after a battle that rubbed raw the country's ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says Republicans have only themselves to blame for the hurdles in Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court. Schumer said this morning, "They have a flawed nominee." The New York Democrat called it a "shameful culmination" of a ...