Vindicator file photo / March 3,  1985 | Rick Farina of the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department grimaced in pain when Youngstown Patrolman Joseph Bonacci used a stun gun to “subdue” him during a 1985  demonstration of the new weapon that uses electric current to incapacitate offenders. The demonstration was sponsored by the Ohio Survival Training Institute at 218 W. Boardman St., Youngstown.
 
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1996: Mahoning County's new Justice Center, estimated to cost $25 million five years ago, has a final construction cost of $35 million and another $6 million for non-construction costs.
 
Dr. Anand G. Garg, a Boardman neurosurgeon, is named "Man of the Decade" by the India Association of Greater Youngstown.   
 
With 21 points, Alyson Vogrin leads Coach Ron Moschella's Boardman Lady Spartans to a District championship over Steel Valley Conference rival  Warren Harding, 60-44.
 
1981: A Champion Township farmer, Earl Brainard, who is locked in a battle with Atlas Energy over royalties for a gas line that the company says is unused, digs up a section of the line and ignites the gas bubbling up through a puddle of water to prove that the line is being used. 
 
The Salem office of The Vindicator is burglarized and reporter Dave McCamon's extensive files on the bodies found on an abandoned farm in Salineville are taken from McCamon's desk.
 
Youngstown State University's head wrestling coach Norm Palovcsik and Struthers High head basketball coach Bob Patton are the guest speakers at the luncheon meeting of The Curbstone Coaches at the YMCA.
 
1971: General Motors Lordstown complex is churning out a new car at the rate of one every 45 seconds of a 16-hour workday and hopes to produce one every 36 seconds. 
 
A unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that a man may not be imprisoned merely because he is too poor to pay a fine will mean freedom for 27 inmates in the Mahoning County Jail. 
 
Campbell Memorial and Liberty high schools win in sectional AA basketball play and advance to district play. 
 
1946: Earl P. Laughlin, Vindicator circulation district manager, is one of the nation's very few full-fledged airplane pilots who has an artificial limb. Even some of his best friends don't know which leg is artificial.
 
A post-war building boom rivaled only by the boom that followed World War I appears to be underway in Youngstown. Paul Boucherle, city building inspector, predicts home and business building of $5 million in 1946.
 
Youngstown College adds eight full-time professors and 24 part-time faculty members to handle big enrollment increases.