SPORTS BRIEFING
RAIDERS SEASON COMES TO AN END AKRON — South Range's softball team saw its season come to an end with an 8-1 loss to Liberty Union in the Div. V state semifinals on Saturday at Firestone Stadium. The Lions scored six runs in the in the sixth to pull away. South Range (23-8) stranded 11 runners. Wheelersburg won the state title by beating Liberty Union 7-6. GUARDIANS BLANKED IN TEXAS ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jacob deGrom allowed only three singles over six innings, Justin Foscue hit the first of Texas' four home runs and the Rangers beat Cleveland 10-0 on Sunday, giving ...
Potson avoids meltdown at Memorial
DUBLIN— J.T. Poston says he is not a quitter and it was time to prove it Sunday at the Memorial. When he walked to the 14th tee at Muirfield Village, he was trailing for the first time since the 17th hole Friday. The four-shot lead he had at the start of the final round was gone. He was 3 over for the day as everyone was charging. The tournament was slipping away. Poston delivered three birdies over the next five holes, the last one an 8-iron to 7 feet on the 18th hole with tournament host Jack Nicklaus watching a wild affair unfold. That forced a playoff with Ryan Gerard, and ...
One-room schools played important role during early statehood
One-room schools came into existence shortly after Ohio became a state. Each school district covered six or seven sections. (A standard township is divided into 36 sections with each section one mile by one mile.) Ohio had about 10,000 such schools with approximately 120 in Columbiana County ...
Trump dismisses idea that Iran betrays his ‘no new wars’ campaign message
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump is dismissing the idea that launching the war with Iran this year betrayed his refrain of "No new wars" that he made repeatedly as he campaigned again for the White House. Trump, in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," said he "didn't guarantee" there would be no wars if he were back in office. "First of all, I didn't guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?" Trump said. Trump also defended plans for a now-scrapped $1.8 billion fund that would have compensated allies of the ...
Everyday Economics: A stable labor market is not enough
The May jobs report offered a measure of reassurance: the labor market is stable. Employers are still adding jobs, layoffs remain contained, and the economy is not showing the kind of "break" that typically signals an imminent downturn. That matters. A stable labor market provides the income floor that supports spending and keeps the gears of the economy turning. But stability is not a synonym for strength. For the modern consumer, the urgent question isn't whether the paycheck is arriving – it’s how much of the grocery store that paycheck still buys. Currently, the answer is: ...