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Evacuation of ships through Strait of Hormuz paused

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A United Nations agency paused the evacuation of ships through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday after the British military said a vessel was hit by a projectile off the coast of Oman following the passage of several tankers that used a route backed by the U.N. The head of the International Maritime Organization said the plan to move stranded ships out of the Persian Gulf through the strait will be on hold until the agency can confirm safety guarantees for the ships on the evacuation list and in the region. The report of a strike came hours after Iran ...

Get a load of this: Humans and great apes share similar giggles

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NEW YORK — Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests. How do we know this? Researchers tickled 13 captive apes — including gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees and bonobos — and recorded the results. The new research reexamined those decades-old recordings and compared them with the newly captured giggles of four young children while they were being tickled and playing at home. It turns out that the chuckles of humans and great apes follow similar rhythms, with regular timing between their laughs, a ...

3 plead guilty in separate drug cases

Local News

Staff report WARREN — Three people, including a woman who swallowed fentanyl during a traffic stop in Liberty last summer, all pleaded guilty Wednesday to drug charges before Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Cynthia Westcott. Kayla Lipscomb, 35, of Apricot Drive SW, Warren, pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of a fentanyl-related compound and one count of attempted tampering with evidence. The case involved two incidents in March 2025. According to a Liberty police report, an officer was on stationary patrol on Belmont Avenue on March 6, 2025, when he noticed a ...

Mathews board hears concerns about homestead, moratorium

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VIENNA — While the Trumbull County commissioners voted to go a different way with tax relief in the county, the township school district’s treasurer said the loss from one of the paths was already accounted for. During the public comments portion of Tuesday’s meeting, the Mathews Board of Education heard from Tim Licata, who noted the Trumbull County commissioners were considering a vote to double the homestead exemption and put a moratorium on reappraising property values. The commissioners instead unanimously voted to reduce the amount of taxes that county property owners ...

Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center has closed

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The Florida Everglades immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” has served its purpose, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday, closing the makeshift facility heralded by the Trump administration and denounced as inhumane by civil rights groups. DeSantis said the center, which opened in July 2025, was always meant to be only temporary until more permanent detention centers could be secured and federal officials now have that capacity. “We stepped up because there was a gap, but my hope is that they’ll be able to handle that,” the Republican governor said at a ...