Years Ago | February 10th
February 10
2000: A Trumbull County jury finds George Foster, 34, guilty of the May 1999 rape and murder of 10-year-old Bridget Wetzl in Weathersfield Township. The charges could carry the death penalty.
By a 4-2 vote, the Youngstown Board of Education named Marilyn Montes Gonzalez to the board seat left open by the resignation of Ron Skowron.
The Warren Civil Service Commission overturned the layoffs of 17 city firefighters because they were not given the 14-day notice required by state law.
1985: Members of the Warren-Trumbull Food Coalition thought that their mission to provide food to needy families would be over by now, but after using $500,000 in federal grants and local money in the past two years, the need for more continues.
Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, tells Vindicator religion editor Leon Stennis that the Catholic Church can support revolution against an existing government without contradicting Pope John Paul II's condemnation of liberation theology. Malone cites the church's support of opposition to Poland's Communist government or the oppressive government of South Africa.
James Shin, 19, of Boy Scout Troop 161 in Warren, who has cerebral palsy, is the first orthopedically handicapped Scout in the Western Reserve Council to earn Eagle Scout rank.
1975: An eye-watering, bone-chilling cold descends over the Youngstown district, with the mercury hitting a record low of -8 at the Youngstown Municipal Airport.
All 18 employees who Trumbull County Treasurer Carl Lupi discharged show up for work but are turned away by Lupi and his new chief deputy, Dr. R.H. Slimmer.
1950: More passenger trains serving the Youngstown area are cut, industrial plants prepare for more curtailments, and homes heated by coal prepare for heatless days as coal supplies reach perilous levels and the strike by miners continues.
Hugh Dickson, the former mayor of Canfield, admitted embezzling $10,624 from the village treasury. Common Pleas Judge David G. Jenkins severely reprimanded and placed him on year-long probation.
