WFMJ archives / March 3,  1961 | Red Cross canteen volunteers and nurses were among those honored at a luncheon 62 years ago. Seated, from left, Mrs. Elizabeth Kreuzweiser, Mrs. George Prokop, Mrs. Ralph Caposell, and Mrs. Lamar K. Donahay; standing, Mrs. Ralph Morrall, Mrs. Paul Chuey, Mrs. R.W. Fenton, and Mrs. J.E. Dupuy.
 
March 2
 
1998: Mayor George McKelvey says the city paid $1.5 million for outside legal counsel in the past three years, and he wants the law department to cut those expenses by half. 
 
Youngstown's aggressive effort to demolish houses has Mahoning County health officials worried over whether enough is being done to suppress lead-laced dust. 
 
Robert Carillio, a 30-year-old naturalist who lives in Warren, suggests that the city's Riverwalk along the Mahoning River be landscaped with wildflowers and grasses rather than the more traditional tulips and daffodils. 
 
1983: Diane Green, 19, and two of her children are found murdered in her Quinby Street apartment in Sharon. Pronounced dead were Larvonna, 2, and Terell, 10  months. A third child, Larlando, 4, is hospitalized.   
 
Mahoning County Commissioner Thomas Carney returns from a two-day conference in Washington, D.C., convinced that the Mahoning Valley is going to have to work harder than ever to get federal dollars from Congress and the Reagan administration.
 
Robert L. Loughhead, president of Copperweld Steel in Warren, sends a letter to all employees outlining steps that must be taken to trim costs to halt serious losses and allow investment in modernization. 
 
1973: J. Phillip Richley, former Youngstowner who is the director of the Ohio Department of Transportation, is honored at the 24th annual Industrial Safety Awards banquet. 
 
The FBI arrests six Mahoning County residents on gambling charges, among them Ronald Carabbia of Poland. 
 
The Rev. Thomas J. McCarthy,  assistant pastor of St. Joseph Church in Austintown and former principal of Cardinal Mooney High School, is named pastor of St. William Church in Champion, Trumbull County. 
 
1948: Mahoning County commissioners order Sheriff Ralph Elser to stop accepting prisoners from the Youngstown City Jail because the city has not agreed to pay the county $1.25 per day per prisoner. 
 
Simon L. Leis, a member of the Ohio Liquor Control Board, says the board will support the efforts of Youngstown Mayor Charles Henderson by revoking the permit of any license holder who stays open after hours or on Sunday.
 
Youngstown City Council votes to adopt Daylight Saving Time this summer.