21 WFMJ archives / March 1983 | Forty years ago, Youngstown State University’s 1982-83 Women’s Basketball Squad included, kneeling from left, Danielle Carson, Kim Horodyski, Barb Nick, Margaret Peters, Mary Jo Naples, Sharon Woodard, Maureen O’Brien and Diane Martino, manager; standing, Jeff Cohen, head coach; Laura Rubesich, assistant trainer; Melissa Kerner, Margaret Porter, Evelyn Rohland, Karen Lane, Mary Kay Ballack, Cindy Brunot, Cindy DiDomenico and John Novak, student trainer.

March 31 

1998: After 13 stabbings and two murders at its private prison in Youngstown, Corrections Corporation of America has moved 11 of its most dangerous prisoners from Youngstown to a facility in Tennessee. 

Dr. John J. McDonough, a nationally recognized American art collector and prominent local gynecologist, dies at his home on Newport Drive. He was 89.

Former state attorney general Anthony Celebrezze endorses state Sen. Robert Hagan over his challenger, former Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro because Ungaro wouldn't give Celebrezze a meeting when he was running for governor in 1990. Ungaro, a Democrat, stayed neutral in that election and said he subsequently had a good working relationship with Gov. George Voinovich, who beat Celebrezze in 1990. 

1983: Hundreds of Youngstown residents line up outside the Youngstown Community Action Council seeking help paying utility bills as the moratorium on utility shutoffs expires. 

The board of trustees of East Liverpool City Hospital and the hospital's executive staff warn union employees that anyone who joins a strike against the hospital will be fired.

Some Youngstown area service stations have jumped the gun, adding 5 cents per gallon to their prices a week before a 5-cent federal gasoline tax hike goes into effect.    

1973: After three months of negotiations with the Youngstown Board of Education, the Youngstown Education Association declares an impasse and threatens a fall strike unless progress is made. 

Youngstown juvenile officer B. Franklin Taylor arrests two 16-year-old boys in the rape of a 14-year-old girl who was grabbed from the sidewalk on Marion Avenue and dragged behind a building. 

1948: Military officials are surveying Youngstown district plants in case they may be called again to repeat the remarkable job they did from 1940 to 1946.

A committee of mothers plans to call on Ohio Gov. Thomas Herbert to ask for clemency in the case of Donald Frohner, 17, of Youngstown who has been sentenced to death for murder of an Ashtabula man. 

The Columbus Mariners wallop the Youngstown Cubs, three games to one, in the American Pro Basketball League's 1948 championship series.