Vindicator file photo/ Jan. 20, 1981 | Peggy Simmons of Youngstown reacts with joy at the news that the 52 hostages held for 444 days in the U.S. embassy in Tehran had been released. Among the hostages was her brother-in-law, Gary Lee, a graduate of Youngstown State University.

January 20

1995: Mahoning County shows a slight population loss since 1990, while Trumbull and Columbiana counties post gains for an overall increase of 0.5 percent in the Mahoning Valley.

The city and Sharon School District are trying to put together a $775,000 financial package to revamp Tiger Stadium as a community center.

Mahoning County Probate Judge Leo P. Morley asks the Ohio Supreme Court to order Mahoning County commissioners to provide his court with money to give his employees pay raises. 

1980: Three of Youngstown’s four pumper trucks are in the garage for major repairs, leaving only one pumper to service the city's 13 fire stations. Fire Chief Charles O'Nesti says a pumper is the first truck to respond to a fire. 

Trumbull County Auditor Patrick J. Sullivan warns county commissioners that unless revenue from the Four Township Water System doubles over the next few years county taxpayers will have to subsidize the system. 

After a one-year move to the Packard Music Hall in Warren, the Youngstown Golden Gloves returns to the Struthers Field House.

1970: Two freshmen at Kent State University's East Liverpool branch are arrested on charges of possession and sales of narcotics and hallucinogenic drugs. 

The death of Karen Ann Maxwell, 15, of Austintown is ruled an accident by Trumbull County Coroner Philip Giber who said she sustained a fatal brain concussion while sledding in Mill Creek Park. 

Architect Arsene Rousseau files a lawsuit against the city of Campbell after the city issued a stop-work order on three houses Rousseau is building on Notre Dame Drive.

1945: The city's bus and streetcar company,  Youngstown Municipal Railway Co., had its largest gross income in 1944, $3 million, which was $200,000 more than 1943.

Andrew Rals, a police radio operator for two years, resigns to enter the merchant marines. He was discharged from the Army in 1931.

Marine Cpl. Emil Elias, Struthers, who lay for 10 hours in a foxhole afraid to call for help in case he endangered his comrades, has been awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism.