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No luck in Champion

Submitted photo First-graders at Champion Central Elementary tried their luck at catching the elusive St. Patrick’s Day leprechaun earlier this week. Students made special leprechaun traps and set them up in the common area outside the classroom before leaving school on March 13. They ...

Insight issues staff reductions

WARREN — Eighty-eight registered nurses are among the approximately 150 Insight Hospital and Medical Center Trumbull employees losing their jobs as owner Insight Health System invoked a seven-day workforce reduction and layoff notification. Staffing at Insight Rehabilitation Hospital ...

County pins down ’26 appropriation requests

WARREN — Trumbull County commissioners passed resolutions to send recommendations to U.S. Rep. David P. Joyce, R-Bainbridge, to seek $2,763,000 from Community Project Funds for three projects for the 2026 federal fiscal year appropriation cycle. The projects include obtaining $500,000 to do ...

Former state justice plans run for Congress

Democrat Bill O’Neill, a former Ohio Supreme Court justice and 11th District Court of Appeals judge, said he will run next year in the 14th Congressional District race against U.S. Rep. Dave Joyce, a Republican first elected to the position in 2012. “I don’t think I have the right to sit ...

Niles council opposes Ohio House Bill 160

NILES — City council on Wednesday approved a resolution in opposition to proposed changes in Ohio’s recreational marijuana laws under House Bill 160. Niles Mayor Steve Mientkiewicz criticized the bill, which proposes reducing the local excise tax on marijuana sales from 36% to 20% and ...

Newton Falls fills 3rd Ward seat

NEWTON FALLS — After three months of not having anyone in village council’s 3rd Ward seat, Bob Burke is now filling it. Burke, who said it is first time in public office, said he is excited to be on council and looks forward to working with fellow council members for the betterment of the ...