Years Ago | December 8th
21 WFMJ archives / December 5, 1986 | Steve Scott, a 1984 graduate of Thiel College, returned two years later to join Phi Theta Phi fraternity's annual walk-a-thon from Thiel in Greenville, Pa., to Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh.
December 8
1999: A 17-year-old Youngstown youth is charged with burglary, accused of breaking into a Canfield Township home in October while the owners were asleep.
Some Warren City Council members disagree with proposed legislation that would free their salaries and those of other city officials.
It's been four months since state and local officials met with Cleveland developers about building a Target store on Route 224 in Boardman, and no one has heard from them since.
1984: Columbiana County commissioners filed a suit to block state approval of a new nursing home that they said would interfere with the county's plan to sell the county home.
The Youngstown-Warren Metropolitan Area has the 18th highest unemployment rate in the nation at 11.1 percent.
The Youngstown Symphony presentation of Handel's Messiah on Dec. 8 is sold out.
1974: Damage is estimated at $250,000 in a fire that ravaged Cortland Tractor Sales on Route 5 in Johnston. Firemen from eight departments fought the blaze.
Youngstown police say that one of three men who murdered jeweler Edward Udich-Knoblock III in his Elm Street home shop asked him to play the piano and have his French poodle "sing." After the performance, the jeweler was shot, and his home was ransacked.
Dr. Frank H. Bretz, 14th president of Thiel College, says the college will combine a quality liberal arts education with sound business practices, which many small colleges have failed to do.
1949: Fire guts an A&P warehouse full of wooden crates on Hubbard Road.
The Hotel Pick Ohio is spending $65,000 to modernize its steam plant as part of Youngstown's plan to eliminate air pollution.