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• WARREN BOARD OF CONTROL will meet at 9:30 a.m. today at the city law department office. • BAZETTA ZONING COMMISSION will have the quarterly meeting at 6 p.m. today at the township administration building. • TRUMBULL COUNTY METROPARKS BOARD will meet at 4:15 p.m. Thursday at the park offices, 3983 N. River Road, in Howland, • FOWLER TOWNSHIP APPEALS COMMITTEE will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the township hall. • GIRARD BOARD OF EDUCATION will meet at 5 p.m. Thursday at the high school media center. • WESTERN RESERVE TRANSIT AUTHORITY Board of Trustees will meet at ...

Johnson touts positive state of YSU on variety of fronts

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By SEAN BARRON Correspondent YOUNGSTOWN - When it came to assessing Youngstown State University’s state of affairs, YSU President Bill Johnson left the starting gate not with a trot but with a gallop. “I’m glad to share with you that the state of Youngstown State University is ...

Mixed messages on Iran

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump said U.S. and Iranian officials met Tuesday, an unexpected engagement that came even as he threatened in his address to the U.N. General Assembly that he may “annihilate” the Islamic Republic if a deal isn’t reached soon to end the nearly ...

Google fined $463 million for breaching EU rule on location data

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The Associated Press Google has been fined $463 million for breaching the European Union’s strict privacy rules because it mishandled users’ location data, the bloc’s data privacy watchdog said Monday. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said its investigation found Google did not lawfully or fairly process location data in users’ Web & App Activity, a Google setting that tracks browsing and search history, and in their Location History, a service that maps places they’ve been with their mobile phones. Regulators also found the company failed to be lawful, fair and ...

Local news at a glance: Liberty burglary, New Champion firefighters

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Thousands of dollars in merchandise stolen at Liberty sporting goods store LIBERTY — A woman reported seeing two teenagers in front of a local business the night a local sporting equipment store was broken into, resulting in thousands of dollars in merchandise being stolen. According to a police report, officers were called to Wharmby Sporting Goods on Belmont Avenue on Monday morning for a breaking-and-entering report. Officers spoke with the store’s owner, who said he had arrived to work and saw the building’s glass door was broken out, adding that he found a rock by the ...

Falls education board discusses taping meetings

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NEWTON FALLS — The Newton Falls Board of Education is considering videotaping its meetings for public viewing and will check to see what other school districts do to record their meetings. Board President Tonya Kline said the board approved at its recent meeting having Superintendent Andreas Johansson check what other school boards do to have their meetings recorded both live and posted afterwards. She said the board members have been discussing the pros and cons of video recording meetings. “We are moving forward to investigate what we can do to videotape our meetings. We ...