April 9

1999: The city of Niles cites D&L Energy Inc. for failure to erect a fence around its oil and gas well along Mosquito Creek near Robbins and Vienna avenues.  

Tom Ridge, Republican governor of Pennsylvania, announces his plan to add 24,000 low-income children to the Children's Health Insurance Program. 

Sgt. John Lenkey of the Lisbon Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol receives the patrol's highest award, the Superintendent's Citation, for calming and disarming a suicidal East Liverpool man. 

1984: Neighbors Eugene Lockett Jr. and Marvin Redding are driven back by heat and smoke in their futile attempts to save Genevieve Register, 61, from a fire at her East High Street home. 

Packard Electric hourly workers ratified an agreement to establish a plastic compounding facility at the company's vacant Rootstown plant. The facility will create 60 new jobs. 

In the wake of the campaign finance reform passed in 1974 after the Watergate scandal, the popularity of PACs is growing, with $250 parties every evening in Washington.

1974: Domestic Relations Judge John Leskovyansky says Mahoning County could recoup a sizeable portion of welfare payments if it established a bureau of support to collect support payments. 

Some 350 workers at one of East Liverpool's most important seasonal businesses are working feverishly to harvest Easter corsages at Riverview Orchids Inc. 

"It was just like any other home run," says Hank Aaron after hitting No. 715 in Atlanta, exceeding Babe Ruth's record. 

1949: Mahoning County Sheriff Paul J. Langley says he will ask commissioners to approve the purchase of a $650 radar set to compute the speed of cars and trucks. 

William Chapin Deming, vice president of the Warren Tribune Co., dies at his home in Cheyenne, Wyoming. 

Premier Marshall Tito accuses Russia of fomenting civil war in Yugoslavia during a defiant speech in which he says Yugoslavia is free to establish economic ties with the West.