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Crash in Niles sends three to hospital

NILES — A late Saturday crash on North Main Street near the intersection of East Madison Avenue sent an adult and two juveniles to the hospital. A Niles police report states the crash happened just before midnight after a vehicle hit a utility pole while being driven south on North Main Street across from the Dunkin. The road was closed Sunday morning as work crews spent time fixing the damaged utility pole. Traffic was rerouted to nearby streets.

Couple married 75 years among those honored by Diocese

YOUNGSTOWN — Bishop David Bonnar said a Poland couple who has been married for 75 years could qualify for the Guinness Book of World Records. The Diocese of Youngstown hosted a special Mass at St. Columba Cathedral on Sunday celebrating 81 couples who have been married for 25 to 75 years for a total of 5,905 years. Mary Teresa Gabriele, 94, and John Gabriele, 99, of Poland, have been married for 75 years. The Gabrieles attend Christ Our Savior Church in Struthers. “We thank God for every day we have together and for our loving family,” Mary Teresa said. The couple have two ...

United States attacks 10 new targets in Iran

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United States struck 10 targets in Iran at President Donald Trump’s direction on Saturday, continuing a string of attacks that have shaken the war’s uneasy ceasefire. U.S. Central Command, in a post to social media, said that U.S. military aircraft targeted Iranian military “surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities, and minelayer capabilities” following an attack on a merchant vessel early on Saturday morning. It later specified the strikes involved 10 Iranian military targets at multiple ...

Most of Wall Street rises, but sinking AI stocks send it lower for the week

NEW YORK (AP) — Most of the U.S. stock market rose Friday after oil prices eased back to where they were before the war with Iran, but drops for stocks swept up in the mania around artificial-intelligence technology kept the market in check. The S&P 500 finished nearly flat and slipped less than 0.1% to close out just its second losing week in the last 13. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 44 points, or 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.2%. Stocks got a boost as the price of Brent crude oil, the international standard, dropped 3.8% to $72.60. That’s lower than it was ...

Valley author finds inspiration inside McKinley memorial

NILES — Author Paul Rohrbaugh of New Middletown first became aware of the McKinley National Birthplace Memorial when he needed to draft a fourth-grade report about a United States president. “I was awestruck by the white marble building in the middle of Niles and that motivated me to ...