February 26

1995: Daniel Lewis, 60, of Liberty Township is killed when his single-engine Cessna crashes in a muddy field on the approach to the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport. Lewis, a prominent realtor, was the new chairman of the Western Reserve Port Authority, which oversees the airport.

Warren Police Chief Thomas Hutson complains that his department as two homicides from a year ago and one from four years ago awaiting action by the Trumbull County grand jury while the county prosecutor's office is preoccupied with investigating as many as 1,000 20-year-old cases that date to the tenure of former Coroner Dr. Joseph Sudimack Jr.  

Connie Coloutes of Poland says she can't understand why her 104-year-old grandmother, who has been institutionalized since 1930 when she suffered a breakdown after two of her children died, received 19 psychotherapy sessions at the Boardman Community Care Center between April 1993 and February 1994. Coloutes received a notice from Medicare that it paid $940 to Royal Geropsychiatric Inc. for the sessions.

1980: Atty. Staughton Lynd of Youngstown asks a federal judge in Cleveland to order U.S. Steel Corp. to give its workers an option to buy or lease the Ohio and McDonald Works, which the company is closing. 

Mahoning County commissioners vote unanimously to hold public hearings on a proposed piggyback sales tax that would add a half-percent to most purchases. 

About 30 homeowners from the Sugarcane Drive area ask the Boardman Board of Education to erect a chain-link fence along the Boardman High property line to stop students from cutting through their yards.

1970: Major Dewie L. Henry is appointed commander of the Youngstown Air Reserve Base and the 910th Tactical Airlift Support Group at Youngstown Municipal Airport. 

Assignment of the present city-operated ambulance service to private companies is suggested by Sixth Ward Councilman William Bryant because the city is losing money on the service.

The district Census Office in Youngstown will employ about 280 people to complete the federal census in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

1945: Youngstown's shortage of male labor for "must" war plants has increased tremendously as a result of putting the local steel plants on critical labor lists. 

Nathan "Nate" Weisenberg, capitalizing on the ban of horse racing to expand his slot machine operations into new territory in northeast Ohio, is murdered after he double-crossed rivals and hijacked their machines. 

Mrs. Harry Dotson reports her Kimmel Street home was entered by burglars while she was visiting in West Virginia. She understands the thieves taking 18 jars of canned peaches and some ration stamps, but doesn't know why they would steal a fireman's helmet.