February 11

2000: On the first day of a strike by Teamsters representing 275 employees at Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital,  administrator Sean McKibben warns that if the strike isn't settled quickly, the hospital could close.

The court-appointed trustee for Conneaut Lake Park says he believes the park's $146,000 tax debt can be resolved before the property faces a sheriff's sale.

Nationally known columnist Robert Novak tells 1,000 people attending a mock Republican convention at Westminster  College that the Republican Party should summon the courage to identify itself as the party of less government and more freedom. 

1985: Michael Dalton, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency geologist, says the EPA's emergency team has been unable to keep up with a flood of oil spills and hazardous pollution cases.

Cynthia Irene Peters, a Canfield High School senior, is named Ohio Junior Miss during a pageant at Mount Vernon. She succeeds Laura Liu, Austintown Fitch valedictorian who, as Miss Ohio 1983-84, was first runner-up in the America Junior Miss pageant.

More than a half inch of freezing rain causes dangerous roads and school closures.

1975: The controlling board asks the Youngstown Law Department to aggressively pursue reimbursement for money spent on demolishing condemned privately owned structures. 

The Youngstown-Warren metropolitan Area will receive $1.47  million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to build 500 housing units. 

An employee of Livingston's at the Southern Park Mall is robbed at gunpoint of $1,000 she was bringing from the Mahoning National Bank to begin the day's business. 

1950: The Youngstown Community Chest campaign ends $34,339 short of its goal of $552,565, but late contributions are expected to reduce the shortfall. 

Three Youngstown district boxers capture open division championships in the grand finale of the Cleveland Golden Gloves Tournament. They are Elmer Lakotos, Nick Kuzma, and Joe Dixon. 

The door of a Pan American Airways trans-Atlantic Stratocruiser pops open at 10,000 feet as the plane was approaching Idlewild Airport, sucking a 28-year-old steward, John Harris, to his death.