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Underground Railroad Museum to honor civil rights movement

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FLUSHING — The Underground Railroad Museum is gearing up to honor the civil rights movement on Saturday. The event will take place at the museum’s current location at 121 High St., Flushing. It kicks off at 1 p.m. and will be hosted by museum Director Kristina Estle. Estle said she ...

Delay or cancel?

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ST. CLAIRSVILLE — As cold and snowy conditions persist in Eastern Ohio, many factors play a role in school officials’ decisions to delay or cancel classes. School superintendents communicate with each other about whether schools will be canceled, according to St. Clairsville ...

Brookside council elects new president

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BROOKSIDE — Brookside Village Council elected Councilwoman Paula Curtin as the new council president at Tuesday evening’s meeting. A different council member is elected as the president every year, Mayor Richard Kurner said, and one member rarely serves two years in a row. Mike Tully has ...

FDA floats plan to make cigarettes nonaddictive

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is floating a long-awaited proposal to make cigarettes less addictive by capping their nicotine levels. But the plan comes in the final days of his presidency and is unlikely to take effect anytime soon. Implementing low-nicotine cigarettes would ...

Morrisey signs orders reviewing spending, programs, DEI

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CHARLESTON — Gov. Patrick Morrisey wasted no time on his second day in office Tuesday by signing several executive orders, ranging from ordering a review of all state rules and regulations to banning state funding for DEI programs and allowing for religious exemptions for vaccines. Morrisey ...