WFMJ archives / February 11,  1948 | David Elder, left, and Rudy Gatto, both of Ellwood City, Pa., swapped instruments to play a score held by Gloria Durbin of Farrell at the All-State Band Festival held 75 years ago at Lincoln High School in Ellwood City.
 
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1998: A 19-year-old Austintown woman is released on her own recognizance by Youngstown Municipal Judge Andrew Polovischak after being arraigned on three counts of vehicular manslaughter for an accident on Jan. 29 in which three passengers in her car were killed. 
 
A Farrell, Pa., woman says city officials should do something about pit bulls and other dangerous dogs roaming neighborhoods. Three dogs attacked her pet, causing injuries and a $400 vet bill. 
 
YSU Coach Ed DiGregorio's women's basketball team wins the Mid-Continent Conference championship, defeating Western Illinois University, 88-67.
 
1983: Malcolm Lazin, chairman of the Pennsylvania Crime Commission, warns that a war may be coming between Sebastian John LaRocca's Pittsburgh arm of La Cosa Nostra and Jack White Licavoli's Cleveland mob for control of Youngstown's rackets.
 
Workers who hold manufacturing jobs in the Youngstown-Warren area take home the fattest weekly paychecks in the state at an average hourly wage of $11.82.
 
The Guardian Angels, a volunteer crime-watch organization, is attempting to organize a youth program in Youngstown. 
 
1973: John S. Shipp, the safety supervisor for the Youngstown Post Office, urges fathers to accept full responsibility for fatherhood at the annual father-son banquet at the YMCA.
 
About 30 employees of the eight-county Ohio Bureau of Employment Services office in Youngstown will be laid off as the result of federal cutbacks following President Nixon's veto of a funding bill. 
 
The Boardman High School girls' basketball team finishes the season with a perfect record of 12 straight wins and captures the Tri-County Girls' League championship. The league was organized two years ago to give girls an opportunity for competitive sports. 
 
1948: Municipal Judge Frank P. Anzelotti fines two Youngstown drivers, one of them a dentist, $100 each and sentences them to 30 days in jail for driving while intoxicated. 
 
Raymond Gray, 21, a former merchant seaman, dies after his speeding motorcycle struck a taxi at Fifth Avenue and W. Federal Street. A passenger, Norma Popovich, 21, is in South Side Hospital. 
 
The House Appropriations Committee recommends that the U.S. Corps of Engineers be given the $204,000 needed to finish the Berlin Reservoir.