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Actor and activist Danny Glover says he has Alzheimer’s disease

National News July 2, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — Actor and activist Danny Glover, best known for starring as an easygoing police officer in the “Lethal Weapon” franchise, has revealed he has Alzheimer’s disease. The four-time Emmy Award nominee, who turns 80 on July 22, told “Today” and People magazine that he was diagnosed with the progressive, memory-destroying disease three years ago. “I’m still not accepting in my mind all parts of it,” he told People magazine. “There are the moments that you keep remembering that validate the fact that you can remember stuff. And there are moments I’ll ...

Victor Willis, who co-founded the Village People, dies at 74

National News July 2, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — Victor Willis, who co-founded the Village People, co-wrote the disco group’s classic hits “Y.M.C.A.,” “Macho Man” and “In the Navy,” and delighted crowds while dressed as the band’s helmeted and mustachioed police officer, has died. He was 74. “We are profoundly sad to announce the death of Victor Willis, lead singer of Village People,” the group posted on its official Facebook page. The cause was identified as “a short but aggressive illness.” Willis was a musician-actor who, among other things, had appeared on Broadway in “The Wiz” when ...

Zelenskyy says Ukraine has hit a Russian oil refinery for the second time in a week

International News July 2, 2026

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces struck Russia’s major Ufa oil refinery for the second time in a week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday. Almost daily long-range attacks on Russian oil facilities have created a fuel crisis and heaped political pressure on the Kremlin as its all-out invasion of Ukraine stretches into its fifth year. The Ufa refinery is one of Russia’s largest producers of lubricants and is located more than 600 miles from Ukraine, Zelenskyy said on social media. Ukraine also struck a plant producing missile components in Russia’s ...

US, Canada and Mexico start negotiations to renew trade pact

International News July 2, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tourists from Chattanooga check into beach resorts in Cancun. Canadian auto parts feed factories in the American Midwest – and vice versa. Happy hour revelers raise glasses of Mexican tequila and mezcal at bars in Seattle. It adds up. The United States trades $1.9 trillion a year — $5 billion a day — worth of goods and services with its neighbors, Canada and Mexico. They have supplanted China to become America’s top two trading partners. So the stakes are high when it comes to fiddling with the rules that govern trade between the three countries. And after ...

Learn about farming at the fair

Community News July 2, 2026

The Trumbull County Fair is upon us, running July 14-19. Growing up, the county fair was a big part of summer life on the farm for me. As Gary and I raised our daughters, it was the same for our whole family. As 4-H club members, me an adviser and Gary the manager of the annual cheese auction, the fair was a much-anticipated event. Even though the girls have long since graduated out of 4-H and Gary and I no longer volunteer through 4-H, we anticipate visiting the fair every year. We enjoy watching the dairy competitions and visiting with friends we made along the way. The fair’s ...

4 adults charged after 16 children rescued from dilapidated Ohio home

National News July 2, 2026

HAMDEN, Ohio (AP) — Sixteen children from the same family who were rescued from a dilapidated home in rural Ohio were living in wretched conditions with human waste all around, confined to just one room over much of the past four years, authorities said Wednesday. Some of the children discovered Tuesday were unable to speak and one — an 18-year-old who was developmentally disabled — could not even write her name, investigators said. “Most of our livestock was kept in better conditions than the children,” said Vinton County Sheriff Ryan Cain. “Just a disgusting ...