1998: Trumbull County commissioners approve a tax break for General Motors to move a portion of its Dana Street operations in Warren to a new plant in Vienna Township. 

UPMC Health Systems announces it will invest $20 million in UPMC Horizon's facilities in Farrell and Greenville, Pa.  

Thiel College in Greenville, Pa., will scale back tuition by 27 percent for the 1999-2000 school year, dropping it from $13,700 to below $10,000, one of the lowest in the nation. 

1983: Miss Ohio, Pamela H. Rigas, 22, of Canfield, a law school student at the University of Cincinnati, wins the swimsuit competition at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City. 

Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini of Youngstown wins the lightweight championship belt after knocking out Orlando Romero in the ninth round of their championship bout at New York's Madison Square Garden. 

Two Warren men have been indicted in Montgomery, Ala., on charges of attempted murder, kidnapping, and robbery following an investigation of a Feb. 27 melee involving mourners at a funeral and white police officers. The mourners have accused police of racially motivated brutality.  

1973: Area labor leaders rally in support of 1,800 striking employees of the Youngstown Public School District. 

More than half of the 47 courses offered at the Trumbull County Joint Vocational School will be of primary interest to girls, but no qualified girl will be barred from taking any of the courses. 

Mrs. Nancy Stanbery of Chardon is named assistant director of the McKinley Memorial Library in Niles. 

1948: Firemen quickly extinguish a flash fire at the Oles Market and avert a threat to one of the most important business blocks in downtown Youngstown. 

An oil portrait of the late Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge J.H.C. Lyon, who served on the bench for 25 years, is placed in his old courtroom. It was painted by Edith Lemon of Youngstown.