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Oil drops below $80 per barrel, while tech stocks weigh on a mixed Wall Street

NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices sank again Tuesday and dropped below $80 per barrel for the first time since early March, while U.S. stocks drifted near their all-time highs in mixed trading. The S&P 500 slipped 0.6% and pulled 1.3% below its record set earlier this month. The market was nearly evenly split between stocks rising and falling, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 328 points, or 0.6%, to set a record for the second straight day. But drops for some influential tech stocks pulled the Nasdaq composite down 1.2%. Stocks that had benefited from the boom in ...

Minor injuries reported in Marshall crash

MARSHALL — One person was injured in a two-vehicle crash in Marshall on Monday night. The crash was reported at 10:52 p.m. at the intersection of East College Drive and South Hill Street, Marshall Police said. A 68-year-old woman was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, Police said.

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