21 WFMJ archives/Associated Press / September 19, 1983 | Miss Ohio, Pam Rigas of Canfield, at left, was fourth runner-up in the Miss America Pageant held in Atlantic City 40 years ago.  Others, from left, were Pam Battles, Miss Alabama; Vanessa Williams, who was the first black woman crowned Miss America; Suzette Charles, Miss New Jersey; and Wanda Geddie, Miss Mississippi.

September 18

1998: Megan Herman of Sharon, a Pittsburgh native, is the first woman sworn in as a member of the Sharon Police Department. Mayor Bob Prices says only one other woman ever applied and was offered a patrol job, but she wanted to be a detective. 

Eastwood Village Apartments on Youngstown's East Side, previously known as McGuffey Terrace, are open to tenants after being bought and rehabilitated by Caritas Communities, a member corporation of Catholic Charities Housing Opportunities and Humility of Mary Housing Inc. 

Seventy-five pianos are up for sale at Stambaugh Auditorium, with proceeds of the sale benefiting the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University. 

1983: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' refusal to go along with the plan for a hydroelectric power plant at the Shenango River Dam at Grove City, Pa., could doom the $4.9 million project. 

Pamela Helean Rigas, 22, of Canfield, is the fourth runner-up in the Miss America Pageant, which was won by Vanessa Williams of New York, the first black woman to wear the Miss America crown. 

Joseph Bucheit & Sons is awarded the general contract for building the new clubhouse at the  Tippecanoe Country Club, which will replace one destroyed by fire in March. 

1973: Youngstown City Council prepares a resolution that would shift ownership and operation of Mill Creek Park from a board of commissioners to the city of Youngstown. 

The 88-year-old Old Furnace Road Bridge in Mill Creek Park is closed to traffic in preparation for razing and replacing it with a new $400,000 span.

1948: Joe Kocur, 53, is shot three times as he confronts three bandits at his bar, Joe's Tavern, 104 N. Meridian. He is in fair condition at St. Elizabeth Hospital.