WFMJ archives / March 3, 1976 | Fifty-seven physicians on the Youngstown Hospital Association clinical staff received certificates for 25 years or more of services during the annual clinical staff meeting at the Youngstown Club 47 years ago. Pictured from the left are Dr. John A. Rogers, Dr. Milton M. Yarmy, Dr. G.E. DeCicco, and Dr. Barclay Brandmiller.

March 3 

1998: The Youngstown State University men's basketball team will play Valparaiso in the Mid-Continent Conference championship game, while the YSU women will also face Valparaiso in the women's championship game. 

A Mahoning County Sheriff's Department investigation into allegations that a sheriff's supervisor helped funnel mob money into Sheriff Phil Chance's 1996 campaign is stalled.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has lifted an order that had kept the city of Warren from selling Nature’s Blend, a compost product made from sewer sludge. 

1983: Mahoning County Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. says he wants to drop his lawyers and represent himself in his federal bribery and tax evasion trial. 

Edward W. "Ted" Powers, 86, whose name became synonymous with support of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, dies of a heart attack in Eustis, Fla., while he and his wife, Alice, were driving home to Youngstown. 

Advertisement: Family Fun Fest at the Eastwood Mall featuring Chubby Checker. First prize in a Twist contest, airfare for two to anywhere U.S. Air flies. 

1973: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development rejects Mahoning County's request for $1 million to expand sewer lines in the county. 

Six new Youngstown patrolmen are sworn in: John W. Palma, William E. Norris, John D. Ondomisi, Michael J. Landers, Michael D. Gilboy, and Dennis P. Lyons. 

Ron Jaworski, Youngstown State quarterback and a second-round draft choice of the Los Angeles Rams, is the Curbstone Coaches Athlete of the Year. 

1948: Mahoning County's estimated revenue in 1948 will be $3.9 million, a decrease of $215,733.

Benjamin  F. Fairless, president of United States Steel Corp., tells a congressional committee that a recent boost in steel prices is too small to be inflationary. 

Michael D. Morley, a South High student, places fifth in Ohio's annual scholarship test with a score of 257, and Carol M. King of Poland High is 14th with 235 points. A Westerville student was first of the 8,789 students who took the test with a score of 280 out of a possible 300.