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Average national gas price hits $4 again, AAA reports

Business July 22, 2026

Staff report Gas prices are a penny higher in Northeast Ohio this week at $3.916 per gallon, according to Monday’s AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline has gone up 13 cents over the past week and is now at $4 per gallon. Instability along the Strait of Hormuz is contributing to the increase at the pump and pushing crude oil prices over $90 per barrel. Earlier this year, the national average remained in the $4 range all of April and May and most of June. Last time the national average was $4 or above was on June 17 when it ...

Girard police investigate stabbing at Chesty’s bar

Local News July 22, 2026

GIRARD — City police are investigating a stabbing outside Chesty’s Blue Collar Tavern on South State Street that sent a man to the hospital. A police report states police were called to the bar early Friday for a fight that started inside the bar with two men verbally arguing and the fight continued outside where witnesses told police it became physical and a man was stabbed by another man A shirtless man found on a sidewalk near an alleyway by the bar had multiple stab wounds on his back and arm, the police report states. Other people were giving the victim first aid. The ...

Falls places 12-month ban on recovery housing

Local News July 22, 2026

NEWTON FALLS — Village council has approved placing a 12-month moratorium on new behavioral health, recovery housing, treatment and residential care land uses to allow for more review of zoning codes by the planning and zoning commission. The ordinance was passed as an emergency reading at a recent council meeting. First Ward Councilman Brian Kropp and Second Ward Councilman Brian Axiotis sponsored the ordinance. Kropp said this one-year pause will allow the zoning commission, zoning department and village legal counsel the time to review current zoning codes on land use for ...

Judge OKs $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books

National News July 22, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin said in a Monday ruling that the class-action settlement provides “meaningful relief” to affected authors and publishers. About 91% of the more than 482,000 books covered by the ruling have been claimed by authors or publishers who are now due payment. Plaintiff attorney Justin ...

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$16K theft reported in Liberty

Local News July 21, 2026

LIBERTY — A resident expressed plans to pursue criminal charges against his daughter when Liberty police conclude their investigation into nine stolen items worth approximately $16,000. According to a police report, officers were called Saturday morning regarding a theft, and they met with a man and his wife. The man told officers he and his wife were on vacation, and they had a person at their Logan Arms Drive residence, noting that his daughter — who hasn’t lived there since December — was also seen entering the building, the report states. The man said his daughter still ...