21 WFMJ archives  / April  24, 1997 | Frances Sieman of Warren, a member of Rodef Shalom Temple in Youngstown, read from a Passover Haggadah with Steven May and his son, Steven Jr., 3, during an interfaith seder at Rodef Shalom 28 years ago. 

April 12

2000: Eli Rosenbaum, director of the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, tells those attending the Conference on Holocaust and Genocide at Youngstown State University that it is not too late to prosecute perpetrators of Nazi war crimes. 

Ronald L. Fuller, 24, of Farrell, is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of first-degree murder in the shotgun slaying of Jeremy Farrand, 13, 

Speaking to a packed auditorium at Penn State Shenango, Robert Kennedy Jr. says every community should insist on a long-term environmental impact statement before allowing a new company to move in. 

 

1985: Youngstown Bishop James W. Malone is honored with a mass at St. Columba Cathedral to mark the 25th anniversary of his installation as a bishop and the 40th anniversary of his ordination as a priest. 

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-17th, announces that his first trip outside the United States as a congressman will be to Nicaragua with 13 other congressmen. Traficant anticipates that President Reagan will want to send support to the anti-Communist contras, and he wants to be able to cast an informed vote. 

The Mahoning County Human Service Board unanimously recommends that $332,000 in federal Title 20 funds originally allocated to the Children Services Board be divided among several other social service agencies. 

 

1975: The Koppers Co. of Pittsburgh is contracted to build a new battery of 85 byproduct coke ovens at the Republic Steel Corp.'s Warren plant. 

When supplemental benefits are cut for 1,300 General Motors employees who were laid off, an estimated $150,000 to $200,000 a week will be cut from the Mahoning Valley's economy. 

 

1950: Two weeks after the fact, Youngstown police disclose the shooting of an East Side boy by a priest who was hiding in the sacristy of St. Maron Church guarding the poor box after a number of thefts. The boy was treated for a shoulder wound, and four accomplices were arrested.  

Arriving in Youngstown, Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the nation's Joint Chiefs of Staff, declines comment on the fate of a Navy plane thought to have been shot down by Russian fighters near Denmark.