99 years ago in 1917:

l Hugh Griffith, an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad, had both legs badly crushed when he was run down by a train car belonging to the McKelvey-Hine Construction company. Griffith was rushed to the city hospital and the surgeons found it impossible to save his legs.

A local iron worker and his 9-year-old son were painfully, although not seriously, injured when they were struck by a passing engine at the Pennsylvania railroad crossing on Liberty street. The man and boy stood hand-in-hand while the passenger train passed by to the east and failing to heed the approach of an engine and caboose approaching from the opposite direction, stopped onto the track almost in front of the latter. The man and boy were thrown to the side of the track and were picked up, bruised and unconscious.

50 years ago in 1966:

l The first passenger car to be built at the giant new Chevrolet and Fisher Body assembly plant in Lordstown Township was announced by Daniel C. Forshee, Chevrolet plant manager and Edward J. Legant, manger of Fisher Body operations at the plant. The 1,200 persons working at Chevrolet and Fisher Body, the managers said, eventually will reach about 5,700. Ground for the plant was broken on Sept. 29, 1964.

l UFOs were sighted by a chief in Ravenna who chased the unidentified objects over the line into Pennsylvania.

Portage County Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur said he and his partner, W. L. Neff, “were close” to the object in separate cars and chased it for an hour and a half, from near Ravenna to Conway, Pa., near Pittsburgh.

Spaur said he clocked it at speeds up to 103 miles per hour. From the ground, Spaur said it looked like the head of a flashlight, about 40 feet wide and 18 feet high.

25 years ago in 1991:

l 538 Warren City School teachers, members of the Warren Education Association, voted by an overwhelming majority to defer a 10 percent raise they were legally entitled to receive in school year 1991-92. By deferring their raises until school year 1992-93, the teachers allow the district to put to other use the $1.1 million that would have gone into wages.

“I believe the manner in which this labor agreement occurred is also significant to the future of Warren’s schools. Yes, it was put together through the collective bargaining process. But it was also put together with creative problem-solving on both sides and with the best interests of the students and the community at heart,” Vic Marchese ( teacher representing the Warren Education Association) said.

l The Tribune Chronicle announced election endorsement process for that year’s May 7 primary election.

“In making our choices, some issues – regional cooperation and open government, for instance- interest us more than others. In most cases, however, we made our decisions based on our judgment of a person’s experience and ability to do the job he or she is seeking, rather than the stand he or she is taking on specific issues … As voters weight their decisions, we offer our thoughts on the people running. In explaining our choices, we hope we can help you, our readers, make your choices.”

10 years ago in 2006:

l American Alloys was preparing to take over operations at the former CSC Ltd. steel mill, which closed after going bankrupt in 2001.

The former specialty steel maker was a United Steel-workers union operation. CSC ceased operations in April 2001. The property was purchased in the fall of 2001 by Warren Steel Holdings (a non-union steel maker), which was set up by Privat Bank, one of the Ukraine’s largest investment banks.

Warren Steel Holdings LLC paid about $6 million for the melt shop – continuous caster, furnace and other pieces that CSC had purchased for $93.5 million. It also bought the mill’s 400 acres and building for $1.2 million.

l Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital made medical history as the first in Trumbull County to offer a technologically advanced, lifesaving medical device used by cardiothoracic surgeons to recover heart function of patients with severely damaged hearts.

“This device is modeled after the best blood pump there is – the human heart,” Dr. John Cardone, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the Heart Hospital of Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital, said.