Vindicator file photo /  February 27, 1982 | Forty years ago, 12 men and three women were in the second graduating class from the Youngstown Police Academy. They received their badges at a graduation ceremony at Mill Creek Community Center.
 
February 27
 
1997: A complaint filed by Save Our County and the Sierra Club challenging Waste Technologies Industry's permit for a hazardous waste treatment plant in East Liverpool has been dismissed by the Ohio Environmental Review Appeals Commission. 
 
Youngstown City Council creates a new five-person unit to enforce the housing code and do demolition inspections. 
 
Scott Niedzwiecki, 26, defensive coordinator of Mentor Lake Catholic, is introduced as coach of Ursuline High School's football team, succeeding Dick Angle, who was not rehired.
 
1982: The Youngstown Police Academy's second class of cadet trainees, 12 men, and three women receive their badges at a graduation ceremony at Mill Creek Community Center. The 15 are among 36 added to the police force since October.
 
A 16-year-old East Side boy is shot to death by an off-duty Youngstown police officer during what police said was a robbery attempt by the youth and three men. 
 
Craig Beach Police Chief Willard J. Clonch's cruiser, which had been stolen Feb. 19 from outside the mayor's office, is found burned in the woods west of Lake Milton in Portage County. 
 
Samuel Gorant, 57, of Canfield, who opened his first Gorant confectionery school in Youngstown in 1949, dies of a coronary embolism in South Side Hospital.   
 
1972: West Virginia Gov. Arch Moore says 90 people are believed dead after an earthen dam burst, sending a wall of water through remote coal camps in Logan County.
 
Harold W. Sittig is general chairman of the Youngstown Playhouse's 1972 membership drive.
 
More than 3,000 students from 52 schools in Mahoning, Trumbull, Geauga, and Ashtabula counties participate in the state Solo and Ensemble Competition at Boardman High School. 
 
The Vindicator's All-City Series basketball squad is announced. On the first team: Jeff Maley, Joe McCrae, Tom Williams, Edgar Jeffries, and Earl Moore. 
 
1947: Telephone operators in Warren are being replaced by automatic equipment that will allow 16,000 Warren Telephone Co customers to begin dialing their own calls. The system has 432,000 wires and 15,600 hand-soldered connections. 
 
Defense lawyers David C. Haynes and Chester Beard make impassioned pleas for mercy from a three-judge panel hearing the murder case against Don Fohner and Arthur Chapman, two 16-year-old South High students.
 
Telephone numbers of about a dozen big businesses in downtown Youngstown are changed by Ohio Bell Telephone Co. to allow those businesses to take advantage of new equipment that will allow more calls to be handled. Among the businesses are Youngstown Sheet & Tube, G.M. McKelvey and Strouss department stores,  The Vindicator, and Ohio Edison. 
 
Addressograph-Multigraph Corp. of Cleveland votes a dividend of 50 cents a share. President George C. Brainard, formerly of General Fireproofing, Co., says unfilled orders total $10.4 million.