January 7

2001: Youngstown registered 31 homicide victims in 2000, with 13 of those in or near cars, which indicates that the killers are following and hunting down their victims, says Police Chief Richard Lewis.


After speaking with Vice President-elect Dick Cheney, Ohio Gov. Bob Taft says he will meet with officials of Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. and LTV Corp. to put together a proposal to strengthen the steel industry, which he will present to the White House and Congress. 


Vice President Al Gore, as presiding officer of the outgoing Senate, oversaw Congress's certification of President George W. Bush's election. Gore overruled 20 objections to the election outcome raised by unhappy Democrats. 


David Myhal, executive director of the Mahoning County Republican Party, says there is little motivation for President George W. Bush to support economic development in the Mahoning Valley because the Valley doesn't vote for Republicans. 


1986: Concord Steel Co. will receive a $1 million state loan for its proposed $4.5 million expansion of the old Mullins Manufacturing Co. plant on Buena Vista in Warren. 


City Councilman Richard Hughey, veteran 1st Ward Democrat, is named chairman of Youngstown City Council's finance committee. Freshman Councilman Thomas Provino of the 7th Ward, the council's only Republican, was the only member who received no committee chairmanship. 


The State Controlling Board approves $145,000 for Youngstown State University to expand parking. 

1976: U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney says he will be a candidate for re-election to a fourth term as the representative of the 19th District. 


Thirty-six cars of an Eastbound 96-car Penn Central freight train derail at the Madison Street crossing in Leetonia, sparking a fire that guts the offices of Mellinger Lumber Co. 


Republic Steel Corp.'s Manufacturing Group is phasing out the Construction Production Division in Youngstown and Niles and is moving its Storage System Division from Cleveland to Youngstown.  

1951: Arthur H. Williams, 54, a leading figure in Republican political circles in Youngstown and a well-known brokerage salesman, dies of a heart attack while shopping in the Uptown district. 


Michael J. Kirwan takes the oath of office for an eighth term in the House of Representatives from Ohio's 19th District, continuing a record unsurpassed by any sitting Ohio congressman. Since 1914, the district has had only two representatives, Republican John Cooper, who served 11 terms, and Kirwan.