21 WFMJ archives / October 14, 1959 | Donald J. Lynn, clerk of the congregation at First Presbyterian Church in Youngstown, placed a copper box containing articles collected from congregants for storage in the cornerstone of the church being built 64 years ago. Looking on is the pastor, the Rev. Dr.  W. Frederic Miller.

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1998: Lawrence County District Attorney Matthew Mangino said prosecutors will not seek the death penalty when trying a Lawrence County couple on charges of homicide and reckless endangering in the starvation death of their 8-month-old son. 

Charges of attempted murder and robbery against a 25-year-old Mercer, Pa., man in 1995 were dismissed by the state supreme court because of irregularities in his being transported between Ohio and Pennsylvania to face prosecution. 

Bill Veigh, a Liberty Township Holocaust survivor, will speak to seventh and eighth graders at Austintown Middle School who have been studying the Holocaust. 

1983: American Skyship Industries Inc. asks Youngstown for more time to get its financing in order before breaking ground for a dirigible plant at Lansdowne Airport. 

Negotiations between the Packard Electric Division of General Motors and IUE Local 717 will center on halting the movement of work to other sources and a "competitive hiring plan."

Choking back tears, Rosalie Grant professes her innocence and begs the jury that convicted her of killing her two young sons to spare her life. 

1973: Federal Street from Champion to Walnut in downtown Youngstown will be closed permanently as work begins on a pedestrian mall.

United Auto Workers Local 1714 at the Lordstown GM plant will break ground for a $300,000 headquarters building on a 42-acre site on Salt Spring Road. 

A general alarm fire roars through the main wing of the 156-room Holiday Inn in Meadville, Pa., killing two guests, Almond, N.Y., and Prospect, Ohio. 

1948: Operators of the Jungle Inn remove 70 to 80 slot machines from the premises but continue to run roulette and dice tables. Guards are at the door, an apparent reaction to Youngstown Police Chief Edward Allen's threat to shut down the Trumbull County gambling den. 

Youngstown police charge William Glaros, operator of Glaros Printing, with printing 10,000 football poll betting slips, which were confiscated.

Youngstown Mayor Charles P. Henderson bans sound trucks for political campaigning in the city.