21 WFMJ archives  / October 24, 2004 | A field of more than 1,200 runners headed down Indianola Avenue in Youngstown at the start of the 30th Peace Race 20 years ago. British citizen Gareth Price,  24, won the 10-kilometer event in 29 minutes, 36 seconds,  with Matt Folk,  28, Youngstown  State University assistant track coach, coming in five seconds later.  
 
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1999: A 23-year-old Farrell woman whose four young children died in an apartment fire when she left them alone in November 1998 pleads guilty to four counts of endangering the welfare of a child. She faces 2 to 5 years on each count. 

A 21-year-old Youngstown woman is charged with resisting arrest and child endangering after police were called to her home by a Head Start bus driver who came to pick up her 2- and 4-year-old sons and found them alone with a 1-year-old girl and 3-month-old boy. 

Travis Fryman delivers a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Cleveland Indians a 3-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox in game one of the American League Division Series. 



1984: A Vindicator/YSU poll shows that Republican Congressman Lyle Williams and his Democratic challenger, Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr., are headed for a photo finish in the race for the 17th District seat. 

Layoffs in the hourly workforce and a middle-management shake-up at Copperweld Steel Corp. have Warren's closedown-shy community concerned about the specialty steel company's future. 

City officials agree that the Eastwood Family YMCA, which is up for sale, would make an ideal community center for Niles, but the problem is the city's lack of money. 


1974: U.S. Sen. Robert Taft Jr., who engaged in a bitter Senate primary battle with James A. Rhodes in 1970, endorses the former governor's bid to return to the chief executive's office. 

Dr. Frederick S. Coombs Jr., a well-known Youngstown internist and a leader in the Boy Scouts and First Presbyterian Church, dies of an aortic aneurysm. He was 67.

Advertisement: Meet the Steelers (Jim Clack, Steve Davis, Gerry Mullins Pres Pearson, Gordon Gravelle, and Steve Furness) at the grand opening of the Carpet Warehouse at the Mahoning Plaza Shopping Center. 
 
1949: Brian Ladd, 12, a 7th-grade student at Sacred Heart Church, dies of burns received when chemicals from a toy chemistry set he was playing with at his Forest Avenue home exploded. 

The case of the "mixed up babies" in Kent ends happily with the realization that the 16-day-old boys had not been switched after all at Robinson Memorial Hospital. Dr. Edward Meachum, who delivered both boys, had come to believe they were sent home with the wrong parents, but blood tests prove otherwise. 

Thousands of bushels of this year's bumper crop of apples in Columbiana County are going to waste because there are no skilled pickers.