Vindicator (Associated Press) file photo/April 18, 1984  President Ronald Reagan shares a laugh while escorting Catholic bishops to a luncheon at the White House.  Left to right are Cardinal Krol of Philadelphia, the Most Rev. John J. O’Connor, Archbishop of New York, and the Most Rev. James W. Malone, Bishop of Youngstown.
 
April 18
 
1995: A survey shows that Youngstown State University faculty salaries are generally lower than their counterparts at other Ohio institutions of higher learning. 

Thomas Rudge, 48, of Fowler is found guilty for the second time of killing his estranged wife, Shirley, 44, and Robert Sawtelle, 40, on Jan. 25, 1992. Rudge had been convicted in 1993, but Judge Wyatt McKay declared a mistrial because of juror misconduct. 

Vindicator Sports Writer Ray Swanson recalls when Joe Montana played a charity basketball game in Farrell, Pa., in the early 1970s and showed that he could have played basketball at North Carolina State rather than football at Notre Dame. Montana is retiring after a 16-year career with the San Francisco 49ers.
 
1980: Atty. Don L. Hanni says that during a visit at the Columbus Correctional Facility, his client Steven Masters said the jurors who convicted him in the murder of his wife made a mistake. 

Kenneth Mitchell, a Boardman businessman, is launching a petition campaign to put a referendum on the ballot that would repeal Mahoning County's half-percent piggyback sales tax.

Ohio's Republican Governor James A. Rhodes announces his endorsement of former California Gov. Ronald Reagan for the Republican presidential nomination.
 
1970:  Two off-duty Youngstown police officers, John R. Lynch III and Donald J. Skowron, are in serious condition in South Side Hospital with knife wounds after a late-night confrontation with a group of men on Evergreen Avenue at Hillman Street. 

Air raid sirens wail through the Youngstown district to herald the moment when the Apollo 13 astronauts were reported safe in a Pacific Ocean splashdown.
 
East Liverpool police rescue 2-year-old Jimmy Buren who became trapped in a sewer line that was used as a play area by Oak Hill children.
 
1945: Vindicator reporters use the latest technology to get the reaction to the death of war correspondent Ernie Pyle, killed by a Japanese bullet. A reporter armed with a Handy Talkie radio interviewed people on the street and relayed what they said to a rewrite man at the paper.

Four of five Youngstown area soldiers released from German prison camps by the Russians arrive home: Cpl. William Foster, Lt. William Leach, Sgt. Harvey
Sturdevant and Sgt. Carmen Tisone. Sgt. Dan Vlad is expected home any moment. 

Angelo Vacchiano, 22, of Pearl Street, Youngstown, dies after being accidentally shot by a friend who was practicing his quick draw from a hip holster.