21 WFMJ archives / May 16, 1986 |  Dr. Bernard Gillis, provost of Youngstown State University, addressed the awards ceremony 38 years ago at the Choffin Career Center.  Behind him were some of the 44 outstanding seniors being honored at the Youngstown City School District’s vocational education school.

May 18


1999: State Auditor Jim Petro says Youngstown is the first Ohio city to have its fiscal watch designation removed. 


The Columbiana County jail suspends all prisoner work details after an Aliquippa, Pa., man escaped while serving on one of the crews. 


The Ohio Department of Health announces additional surveillance for rabid raccoons west of Mosquito Creek Lake in Trumbull County after a 12-year-old girl was bitten by a rabid chipmunk. 


1984: Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman Don L. Hanni Jr. likens Mahoning County Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr. to Adolf Hitler as a propagandist during their battle for the party chairmanship. Hanni defeated Traficant by a 3-to-1 vote. 


The comic opera "Marriage of Figaro" is in rehearsal at Youngstown State University for a May 24 performance at Bliss Hall in cooperation with the Dana School of Music. The players include David Pratt, Clara O'Brien, Fedra Anastasiadis, Kelly Lemos, and Tom Skurich. 


Trumbull County deputies and local police confiscate 13 gambling machines during raids in Niles, Mecca, Warren, and Howland townships. 
 


1974: A five-acre site on Scott Street is chosen for the new Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center.


A $24,659 state-federal grant is designated to improve security at the jail, which has been the scene of several jailbreaks since its construction in 1957.


Los Angeles police are trying to identify five charred bodies found in the burned-out headquarters of the Symbionese Liberation Army. It is not known if kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is among the dead. 


1949: Vice Squad patrolman Clayton Geise, 33, is in St. Elizabeth Hospital with a serious gunshot wound of the stomach suffered in a shootout with robbers at the Triangle Cafe at Belmont and Rayen. Three of the four robbers are in custody. 


Somerset, Pa., County Court Judge Norman T. Boose rules that enforcement of Pennsylvania's compulsory school attendance laws on Amish families in an unconstitutional abridgment of religious freedom.