21 WFMJ archives / September 11, 1993 | Shelly Kloss, 12, and her brother, Brian, 9, cheered on the Home Savings & Loan Co. team at Youngstown's Community Cup competition 30 years ago. 

 
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1998: An earthquake registering 5.2 on the Richter scale, with an epicenter 15 miles northeast of Sharon, Pa.,  shook the Mahoning and Shenango valleys, causing alarm but little reported damage.      
 
Youngstown City Prosecutor Dionne Almasy is asking  Municipal Judge Andrew Polovischak to increase the $50,000  bond he ordered for a man accused of gunning down the wrong person in a violent family feud on the North Side. Obie Crockett, 18, was killed. 
 
The Cleveland auto dealership group Spitzer Autoworld, which owns 35 auto franchises, buys Team Chevrolet on Mahoning Avenue in North Jackson. 
 
1983: Developers of a proposed $9.5 million, 60-bed psychiatric hospital in southern Trumbull County are appealing the State Health Planning and Development Agency's rejection of a certificate of need for the facility. 
 
Mahoning County Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. says he will send out layoff notices to 24 deputies, a third of his staff unless county commissioners commit to increasing his department's salary funds.
 
A CPR class offered by the Red Cross Mahoning County Chapter at the Canfield Fairgrounds drew only 60 participants, compared to 200 a year earlier. 
 
1973: More than 23,000 students return to classes in Youngstown city schools after teachers vote to end a 22-day strike.
 
Three Skylab astronauts are found to be in excellent health after ending their record 59-day space mission.
 
1948:  A staff of 12 to 14 certified teachers operate a playroom beneath the stands of Municipal Stadium for children 2 to 6 years old while their parents are cheering on the Cleveland Indians. 
 
A gala welcome celebration greets Salem industrialist Sam Keener when he touches down at the Canton-Akron Airport ending a six-week business tour of Europe in his twin-engine DC3. 
 
An official close to the House UnAmerican Activities Committee claims that Presidents Roosevelt and Truman and Atty. Gen. Tom Clark had information about a Russian spy ring that stole atomic secrets from the United States and did nothing about it.