Years Ago | October 25th

21 WFMJ archives / October 20, 1983 | Sitting beside her lawyer, John Ausnehmer, Rosalie Grant hung her head during a sentencing hearing 40 years ago in the Mahoning County courtroom of Judge Peter Economus. Grant was sentenced to death for the aggravated murders of her two young sons in an arson fire, but that sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1991 by Gov. Richard Celeste.
1998: Warren Mayor Hank Angelo, city school officials, and police are working on a proposed daytime curfew law targeted at school-age juveniles wandering about during the day. The aim is to increase attendance in city schools.
A lawyer for mob figure Lenny Strollo files a motion to suppress any evidence gained from wiretaps on Strollo's phones or bugs installed in his Canfield house on the grounds that the surveillance was unconstitutional.
The Youngstown State University Penguins won an overtime thriller, 18-15, over the University of New Haven before 15,000 fans at Stambaugh Stadium.
1983: The Packard Electric Division of General Motors in Warren announces that "certain noncompetitive final assembly work" on wire harnesses will be moved out of Warren, but more engineering jobs will be created in Warren.
The first reported casualty of a local Marine from the Beirut, Lebanon, bombing is the wounding of Lance Cpl. Michael Toma of Ellwood City, Pa. He is hospitalized in satisfactory condition.
Armed with seven cardboard boxes of records and a sealed ballot box, James Dellick, Mahoning County elections director, made a brief appearance before a federal grand jury in Cleveland that is investigating absentee balloting in the May Democratic mayoral primary in Youngstown.
1973: Youngstown City Council rejects a request by two policemen that it investigate the conduct of Councilman Herman "Pete" Starks during a disturbance at the North-Chaney football game.
Anthony B. Flask, the Democratic candidate for mayor, says a downtown Youngstown parking garage will prove to be the "Republicans' white elephant."
1948: Some 250 people gather in the main ballroom of the Hotel Pick-Ohio to mark the eighth anniversary of the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Three men hold up the Sky Club on Warren-Sharon Road, escaping with $600 from the proprietor and five patrons.
Adam S. Chesney is recommended by the Mahoning County Democratic Executive Committee to succeed John Vitullo on the Mahoning County Board of Elections.