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Halloween weekend coming to state park

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HALLOWEEN WEEKEND AT MOSQUITO: Halloween Weekend will take place Saturday and Sunday at Mosquito Lake State Park in Bazetta. From noon to 3 p.m., there will be Haunted Campground wagon rides through the campground to see the decorated camp area for the holiday. There also will be chalk on the walk where children can transform the pavement at the basketball courts into a magical canvas of pumpkins, owls and spooky characters. There also will be glow in the dark archery and BB guns, Halloween food trucks and vendors, and a basket raffle. WELLNESS ON WHEELS: The Warren City Health ...

Planning commission hosts forum for county’s southeast quadrant

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LIBERTY — The county’s comprehensive plan for land use has not received an update in nearly 70 years, but it’s set to be revamped soon, after things were set in motion for a set of Trumbull County communities. Officials from Liberty, Brookfield, Vienna and Hubbard townships and the ...

Warren officials provide updates on liquor permits and hospital

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WARREN — Law Director Enzo Cantalamessa provided city council with an update at the council meeting Wednesday night on the liquor permit issues it addressed at its Sept. 9 meeting and a separate liquor control issue involving the Convenient Food Mart on Elm Road. Cantalamessa said Convenient Food Mart withdrew its appeal of the Ohio Department of Liquor Control’s recent decision to not renew the store’s liquor license. He said the “practical effect” of withdrawing the appeal is “that location is no longer permitted by law to sell any alcoholic beverages.” He said it ...

Woman charged with felonious assault, held in contempt for Warren courtroom fight

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WARREN — Ryshionna Powell, 18, of Warren, is in the Trumbull County jail, charged with felonious assault, after an incident Monday afternoon in Warren Municipal Court in which she got into a fight with a Lowellville woman in the courtroom and threw a phone at the Lowellville woman’s head, causing a laceration. On Tuesday, Powell was arraigned in the same courtroom where the fight took place by Visiting Judge Terry Ivanchak. Powell pleaded not guilty and her bond was set at $15,000. Ivanchak also was presiding over the court at the time of the fight. Powell is not allowed to post ...

Lawmakers to consider 90-day gas tax suspension

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At the behest of Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, the GOP-controlled state Legislature will have a special session next week to vote on a 90-day suspension of the Ohio gas tax. Ramaswamy unveiled his proposal about six-and-a-half hours after Amy Acton, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, called for an emergency gas tax holiday in Ohio with diesel fuel prices hitting record highs and the cost for unleaded gas continuing to increase. On Wednesday, Ramaswamy and Republican leaders in the General Assembly, including Senate President Rob McColley, who is ...

Heads of AI firms tell UN that it could be a risk to all humanity

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people — in the form of somehow regulating the burgeoning technology that they have been designing. “If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole,” said Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic. And from his competitor Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, came this assessment: “We could lose control of the future to AI.” Both said the countries of the world, through the U.N. Security Council, ...