21 WFMJ archives / May 6, 1995 | Hermitage firefighter Larry Canon, left, watches as Herb Albaugh, assistant chief at West Salem VFD,  checks air tanks at a firefighter certification test at the Hermitage Fire Station  28 years ago.
 
 
May 6 
1998: Trumbull County  Commissioner Arthur Magee is swept out of the office he has held for 16 years by a party machine that backed newcomer James Tsagaris for the Democratic nomination.  
 
State Sen. Robert F. Hagan wins the Democratic nomination for a full Senate term with 31,342 votes, more than the combined vote for the other two candidates, Patrick Ungaro and Thomas Gilmartin. 
 
In a Mahoning County upset, David Ludt, a former Poland Township trustee, defeats incumbent Ed Reese in the Democratic primary for county commissioner by  354 votes out of more than 50,000 casts.
 
1983: Atty. Sam Petkovich says his client, Fred Joseph, 17, will plead not guilty by reason of insanity in the murder of Niles Police Officer John Utlak. 
 
A generator from an airplane fell from the sky, crashed through the hood of a car owned by Michael Seman, and became embedded in the driveway at Seman's home at 2505 Shirley Road. 
 
The Ohio Housing Finance Agency announces that $300,000 in home mortgages at 9.98 percent will be issued. The market rate for mortgages is between 12 and 13 percent. 
 
1973: Student government elections at Youngstown State University have been declared invalid because there were more than 20 by-law violations in conducting the balloting. New elections will be set. 
 
The Youngstown Symphony Orchestra closes its 46th season with a performance of Mendelssohn's "Elijah." 
 
1948: Nine boys ranging in age from 13 to 17 are rounded up by Youngstown police as members of a ring responsible for a string of auto thefts on the South Side.
 
The bodies of 39 district war dead who lost their lives in World War II are being returned to the United States on two Army transports. 
 
Warren City Council meets in a special session and votes to put the city on Daylight Saving Time, ending two weeks of confusion while the rest of the area was on fast time.