21 WFMJ archives / May 16, 1994 | Janice Stephenson, with her son, Joseph, 4, and daughter Marie, 2, watched as C-130s were unloaded  29 years ago at the Youngstown Air Reserve Base. They were waiting for Jack Stephenson (husband and father), who was a navigator on the "Cobra Gold" exercise that took nearly 100 local reservists on an 18-day "around the world" mission. 

May 16 

1998: Three people die in a house fire on Ogden Avenue in Warren, Larry Shipley, 26; Barbara Hudson, 38; and Gregory Hudson, 15.

Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Magistrate Joseph Bryan denies developer Joseph Koch a conditional use permit that would have allowed him to land his helicopter next to his home in the Boulder Creek housing development in Austintown.

Akron-based ComDoc, which has had an office in Youngstown for 38 years, has been growing rapidly in the last five years,  doubling its workforce from 25 to 50 and moving into a new building on Belmont Avenue in Liberty Township. 

1983: In his final keynote address to the United Auto Workers, union president Douglas Fraser urges delegates to support legislation that would require cars sold in America to be built with U.S.-made parts. 

Acting as his own lawyer, Mahoning County Sheriff James A. Traficant questions how FBI agents compiled a transcript of four hours of conversations between Traficant and mobsters Orland and Charles Carabbia.

Michael Gabriel, a senior at Salem High School, made a clean sweep of the awards presented by the school's Music Department. For the first time in the 34 years of the awards, one student won the Bandsman of the Year, Chorister of the Year, and National Arion awards. He plans to study music at the University of Michigan.

1973: Speaking in Niles to 550 Niles and Warren students, State Sen. Donald E. "Buz" Lukens urges youth to get involved in politics.

Jennings R. Lambeth, president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., warns that the United States could be short 3 million to 10 million tons of finished steel capacity by the end of the decade.

A 16-year-old Cardinal Mooney sophomore is arrested after he carries a pipe bomb into school. 

1948: After an absence of 17 years, America's most fascinating insect, the 17-year locust, is emerging in Mahoning County yards and forests.

Displaced Youngstowners hold their annual picnic in Sycamore Park in Los Angeles. Honored as the oldest was Mrs. Ida Faulk of Beverly Hills. The newest arrival was Tony Vivo, who got off a plane that morning to begin a visit.