NOVEMBER

NOVEMBER
1. Toting holstered guns in plain view, 55 advocates of state legislation allowing citizens to carry concealed firearms participate in a Defense Walk through downtown Youngstown.
4. Trumbull County Commissioner Michael O'Brien is elected mayor of Warren, while Wayne Alexander is elected New Castle mayor. James E. Fortune Sr. is elected Youngstown City Council president. Lisa Oles unseats Austintown Trustee Rich Edwards. Robert D. Carcelli ousts Danny Thomas Jr. as Struthers City Council president by six votes. Four new members are elected to the Youngstown Board of Education, and two incumbents are ousted. Voters reject a half-percent sales tax in Trumbull County and every new school levy in Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana counties.
5. Some 320 union workers strike Astro Shapes -- a Struthers aluminum extrusion plant -- after negotiations fail to reach a new contract.
7. Concurring with the jury, Judge R. Scott Krichbaum sentences Martin L. Koliser Jr., 30, of Boardman, to death for the April 29 murder of Youngstown Patrolman Michael Hartzell.
* At least 130 people, including at least 12 from Columbiana County and a few from Lawrence County, have contracted hepatitis A in Pennsylvania's largest food-borne illness outbreak in a decade. The outbreak was traced to Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant in Monaca, Pa. Three hepatitis A patients were admitted to Ellwood City Hospital and about 20 were treated at Jameson Hospital in New Castle.
9. Damage is between $300,000 and $500,000 in a fire that destroyed VFW Post 5286 in Farrell. A state fire marshal said preliminary investigation shows the blaze was accidental, possibly of electrical origin.
10. Anthony Machicote and Jeremy Melvin, both escaped juvenile residents of George Junior Republic, turn themselves in to authorities in Pittsburgh and are charged as adults with criminal homicide in the strangulation slaying of Wayne L. Urey Jr., 43, of Mercer, which occurred at the juvenile detention center near Grove City while Urey was on the job as a counselor.
13. Charlotte Benkner of North Lima, who will turn 114 on Sunday, becomes the world's oldest person, according to the London-based Guinness Book of Records.
* By a 5-2 vote, the Youngstown Board of Education selects Wendy Webb, its assistant superintendent, to succeed the retiring Superintendent Benjamin McGee next summer.
* After four years of study, the Shenango Valley Intergovernmental Study Committee disbands without making any recommendation on consolidation of local municipal governments.
14. Dr. Jean McClure Kelty, 77, founder of Animal Charity and the Victorian Players, both in Youngstown, and a retired YSU English professor, dies in her Youngstown residence.
17. Ray T. Davis, 85, of Youngstown, who served four terms as Mahoning County sheriff, dies.
18. Although the Hot Rod Supernationals have been canceled next summer, promoters announce plans for the Steel Valley Nationals to be held Memorial Day weekend at the Canfield Fairgrounds.
21. The 635th quartermaster group based in Farrell becomes the first area Army Reserve unit activated in the war on terrorism.
* Green onions are the likely source of the hepatitis A outbreak at Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant in the Beaver Valley Mall in Monaca, Pa., which has killed three people and sickened at least 575, state health officials say. Those who got sick include residents of Lawrence, Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties.
25. A 35-pound bobcat caught Monday by a farmer in Ellsworth Township has been released back into the wild. The bobcat was trapped on a Palmyra Road farm after it attacked and killed an 80-pound goat. It was the first confirmed bobcat sighting in northeast Ohio in more than 20 years.
26. Bill D'Avignon, Youngstown's deputy director of planning, is accused in a civil lawsuit of buying an illegal device to pirate DIRECTV satellite programing. Similar suits have been filed by the company against several Valley residents. D'Avignon denies he owns an illegal pirating device.
27. The $24 million being held by the city of Youngstown for an arena project can now be used for other things. A provision in the $328 billion federal spending bill is to free the funds up to be spent on economic development or revitalization projects in the downtown area and give the city three more years to spend the money.
28. State officials say workers at RMI Titanium Co. in Niles, who have been off the job since Oct. 26, have been locked out and are entitled to unemployment compensation.