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Johnson & Johnson agrees to $5.5 billion talc settlement

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Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $5.5 billion to tie up remaining lawsuits that claim its talc products caused ovarian cancer. The drugmaker, which has been fighting talc-related lawsuits for more than a decade, said that the settlement is conditioned on at least 95% of remaining claimants participating. A U.S. bankruptcy court judge denied a $9 billion settlement proposed by company subsidiary Red River Talc last year that would have been one of the biggest mass tort settlements in history. Johnson & Johnson decided not to appeal that ruling and instead fight on in court. A ...

Trumbull’s investment earnings nearly $750K more than ’25

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WARREN — Trumbull County has earned nearly $750,000 more in interest so far this year than during the same period in 2025, Treasurer Agostino Ragozzino told the Trumbull County Commissioners during their quarterly investment advisory committee meeting Tuesday. Jim McCourt, a certified financial accountant with Meeder Public Funds, told commissioners that the current rise in interest earnings are due, in part, to investment decisions being made for the county and the expectation that interest rates will continue to rise because of the war in Iran and rising inflation rates. Meeder ...

Renovation gets a finishing touch

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YOUNGSTOWN — During a quiet ceremony Tuesday afternoon, a mezuzah was placed at the entrance of the newly renovated Schwartz Judaic and Holocaust Resource Center inside the Jewish Community Center (JCC). A mezuzah is a handwritten scroll on parchment paper, called a Klaf, that contains ...

Lindsey Graham eulogized as an ‘American original’

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Lindsey Graham, the son of pool hall owners who rose to become one of his generation’s more influential U.S. politicians at home and abroad, was eulogized Tuesday as “a true American original” during memorial services in Washington. Graham’s flag-draped ...

County to review budget through year’s end

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WARREN — Trumbull County Commissioners are expected to review the general fund budgets of all the county departments next week to determine what will be needed for the departments to complete the year based on 2026 budgets assigned to them at the end of 2025. The commissioners at their weekly workshop Tuesday received an overview of 2026 budget requests from 30 county departments that added up to $82,084,057.38. When making this year’s budget, the commissioners had a projected general fund budget of $67,038,260 to provide the departments. Sixteen departments made just over ...

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• WARREN BOARD OF CONTROL will meet at 9:30 a.m. today at the city law department. • BRISTOL TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES will have a workshop at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the township hall. • LIBERTY TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES will have a special meeting at 8:15 a.m. Thursday at the township administration building to accept resignation of a police officer, promote an officer to sergeant and hire a probationary police officer. • WARREN TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES will have a special meeting at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the township administration building to engage in contract negotiations with OPBA and discuss ...