1998: A robber escapes with $3,715 from a midday robbery at the downtown Youngstown Bank One office. 
 
Easco announces it will invest $1.7 million in a paint line at its Girard plant to improve efficiency and reduce emissions. 
Newton Falls officials mull over whether to ban smoking in the Community Center. 
 
 
1983: American Skyships Industries says it has received confirmation from a Swiss bank of a Mideast client's interest in buying four of the company's dirigibles for $40 million.
 
Northeast Ohio 7-Eleven stores are putting Visine eyedrops back on their shelves after a Youngstown man who claimed eyedrops he bought had damaged his eyes refused to take a lie-detector test.
 
The Youngstown Hospital Association says it will lay off 148 of its 3,100 employees. 
 
1973: Five new Youngstown firemen are sworn in: Nick Tufaro, James Durkin, Robert LaCivita, Paul O'Neill, and Ronald Barber.
 
Teamsters Local 377, representing 300 workers in the street, health, and airport division, rejects a proposed new contract containing 5.5 percent wage increases. 
 
Youngstown City Council has managed to trim a projected $849,000 deficit to just $61,715 with four days left before a balanced budget must be passed. 
 
1948: Youngstown's new police chief, Edward Allen, a soft-spoken, FBI-trained lawman, has a message for Youngstown's underworld: "get going and keep going."
 
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons gives Mahoning County clearance to establish a working farm at the county home for prisoners in the county jail.
 
The farm would reduce the number of prisoners at the county jail, which has been found deficient in a number of areas. 
 
Major steel companies, including Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., volunteer to turn over to a congressional subcommittee the names of people they know to be dealing in black market steel.