1The Morgantown, W.Va.,-based Gabriel Bros., an off-price, brand-name clothing and housewares chain,

1The Morgantown, W.Va.,-based Gabriel Bros., an off-price, brand-name clothing and housewares chain, opens its first Mahoning Valley store in the former Stambaugh's in Boardman.
7Judge Andrew Logan of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court sentences Scott Burrows, 19, of Hubbard, to two life sentences without parole in the Dec. 15 killings of Dorothy and Charles London of Hubbard.
X Todd A. Butler, 20, is sentenced in Beaver, Pa., to two consecutive life terms without parole after pleading guilty in the May 25, 1999, slayings of Clairenda Collins, 21, of Rogers, and Loretta Haines, 18, of East Palestine, in South Beaver Township state gamelands.
9Edward A. Flask, former MVSD director, pleads guilty in Warren to nine charges, including conflict of interest, having an unlawful interest in a public contract and soliciting or receiving improper compensation.
12A Mahoning County grand jury indicts former county prosecutor James A. Philomena on charges that he conspired to fix cases in office. Philomena is already serving a federal prison sentence for racketeering.
14Timken-Latrobe Steel breaks ground for a $10 million distribution plant next to Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna. The plant will move there from downtown Youngstown.
18Columbiana County 4-H faces a shutdown unless $50,000 can be raised to partly compensate for reduced funding from the county.
22A community group calling itself Schools 2000 launches a campaign for a 3.7-mill local bond levy on the Nov. 7 ballot that will pay the local share of a city schools construction project.
X A visiting judge sentences former Campbell Mayor George D. Tablack to a month under house arrest, a $250 fine and a 30 day driver's license suspension after Tablack pleads no contest to a reduced charge of reckless operation. Campbell police arrested him on a DUI charge July16, 1999, after the car he was driving hit a utility pole.
24Ronald Lynn Shaffer, 18, of Newton Falls; and Eric Lee Porterfield, 28, and Dennis Benjamin Gossett, 36, both of Warren, are charged with aggravated murder and aggravated burglary in the shooting deaths of Gary Bell, 39, of Leavittsburg, and Charles Mathey III, 40, of Newton Falls, and the wounding of David Harper, 38, of Newton Falls at a Newton Township residence.
25h Nathan Horvath, 12, of Youngstown, wins the first Greater Youngstown Area Soap Box Derby in 28 years and will compete July 22 in the All-American Soap Box Derby in Akron.
27A federal judge sentences former Youngstown Municipal Judge Andrew Polovischak to 30 months in prison on a racketeering charge.
X Youngstown-Warren Regional Chamber of Commerce board of directors approves creation of a for-profit company to sell electric, natural gas and local and long-distance phone service nationwide. The company is expected to employ about 1,000 people and earn more than $10 million a year in three to five years.
29U.S. House of Representatives passes a bill containing $25 million requested by U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. for a Youngstown convocation center. Senate approves the bill the next day.
X Lordstown Village Council offers to bail out the village's financially troubled schools by giving them $1.7 million of the village income tax with no strings attached.
30Saying the evidence was insufficient, the Ohio 7th District Court of Appeals, by a 2-1 margin, overturns Leslie Johnson's conviction and life sentence in the 1996 shooting death of 3-year-old Jessica Ballew of Youngstown and orders him set free.