21 WFMJ archives  / July 21, 1954 | A crowd turned out in Niles 70 years ago to hear Gov. Frank Lausche dedicate the grade separation project at the B&O Railroad Bridge spanning Robbins Avenue.

July 28 

1999: Mercer County prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty for Ronald Fuller, 23, of Farrell, who is charged in the shotgun slaying of 13-year-old Jeremy Ferrand during a break-in of a Prindle Street home. Prosecutors theorize that Fuller intended to kill a 19-year-old man when the boy was shot.

Caradon Inc., an English-owned aluminum extrusion business, announces plans to buy Girard-based Easco Inc. for $155 million. Easco operates 21 plants and employs 2,000 people, including 700 in Girard and Niles.

Parents of Youngstown school children have collected 600 signatures opposing a proposal that Youngstown build a new central high school.

 

1984: The U.S. General Services Administration recommends the Habers Furniture building at 200 Federal Plaza East as the site for a proposed federal courthouse and office building.

Niles Municipal Court Judge Charles B. Zubyk personally takes a sledgehammer to video poker machines seized in the city as a warning to area taverns and clubs that electronic gambling machines are a bad investment.

The 18-man architectural firm of C. Robert Buchanan and Associates changes its name to Buchanon, Ricciuti & Associates and elevates three associates to vice presidents and shareholders.

 

1974: A University of Pittsburgh archaeological crew headed by Youngstown native Dr. James Adovasio has uncovered the earliest documented evidence of human habitation in the eastern United States. Artifacts dating to 12,000 BC are found 30 miles from Pittsburgh.

The House Judiciary Committee recommended that Richard M. Nixon be impeached as the 37th president of the United States by a vote of 27-11, with six Republicans joining all 21 Democrats affirming a nine-part impeachment article.

 

1949: Two men are rescued from under six feet of earth when the sides of an 11-foot-deep sewer collapse on White House Lane in Boardman Richard Griffin, 17, of Poland, and James Andio, head of Andio Construction, are hospitalized in fair condition.

A partial skeleton of an Indian, along with a tomahawk, several flints, and tiny beads, were uncovered during mining operations in a gravel bank in Clarksville, Pa., near Sharon. Myron Crawley of Sharpsville, a collector of Indian relics, asked the state to send an archeologist.

Harry Games, 71, and his wife, Alice, 70, are killed when an explosion and fire destroy their home at 310 Morse St. in Niles. Three other occupants miraculously survive.