JUNE

JUNE
1. Some 177 registered nurses strike East Liverpool City Hospital over mandatory overtime, health insurance and wages.
2. The New Castle Area Transit Authority launches weekday bus runs from New Castle to Youngstown to serve New Castle School of Trades and YSU students.
* The State Controlling Board unanimously approves release of $500,000 toward reopening of Federal Plaza in downtown Youngstown to motor vehicle traffic and improvements to the plaza.
The state designates Campbell Memorial High School, Addison Elementary School in Brookfield, Mesopotamia and Rogers elementary schools and McDonald Elementary School in Wellsville as "Schools of Promise" for having pupils succeed academically despite high poverty rates.
3. Lord Chesterfield Tailors in Warren is going out of business this month after 50 years of operation.
4. A jury in Warren recommends the death penalty for Donna Roberts, 59, who was convicted of complicity to the Dec. 11, 2001, aggravated murder of her former husband, Robert Fingerhut, after Roberts dares jurors to recommend that she be put to death. Her co-defendant, Nathaniel Jackson, 29, who prosecutors said was her lover, also has been sentenced to death.
5. Humility of Mary Health Partners is named National Humanitarian of the Year by the National Head Start Association.
Thirty-nine eighth-graders in the last graduating class at St. Edward School in Youngstown receive their diplomas. The 86-year-old school is closing because of declining enrollment.
6. This spring's long stretch of wet weather delays completion of planting and the first cutting of hay for farmers and washes fungicide and nitrogen out of the soil.
11. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation has requested charter flight manifests from Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, which were kept by Winner Aviation.
12. The Kentucky Supreme Court sends the custody case over 6-year-old Justin Asente back to the trial court to decide between his birth mother and the man who says he's his father and the Girard couple Justin has been living with for more than five years.
More than 1,380 containers labeled as air freshener, disinfectant and glass cleaner and purchased by Trumbull County government appear to have been shipped from the vendor, Envirochemical of Bedford Heights, full of nothing but air.
13. The Mahoning Valley, Dayton, Toledo and Columbus have submitted proposals for a new Boeing Co. aircraft plant that would bring in up to 1,200 jobs. The Mahoning Valley proposal would place the plant near Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport.
14. Nurses at East Liverpool City Hospital ratify a three-year contract, ending their two-week strike.
16. Officials enter the final stages of an effort to remove toxins from the site of Nease Chemical Co., which operated near Salem.
17. Dallas attorney Thomas W. Mills Jr., who represents Richard E. Detore, told a jury in his opening statement that witnesses will lie. Detore, a Virginia engineer, is accused of providing illegal gifts to then-U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. He is being tried on federal charges in Cleveland.
18. Multimillionaire J.J. Cafaro used two of his aerospace employees to funnel illegal campaign contributions to a candidate running for governor of Maryland, a witness, Albert Lange Jr., testified today in U.S. District Court at the trial of Richard E. Detore.
19. Productivity at General Motors Lordstown Assembly Plant improved 5 percent last year, pushing it up to No. 2 among subcompact car plants in North America.
20. Judge John Stuard of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court concurs with the jury's recommendation of the death penalty, making Donna Roberts, 59, the first woman on Ohio's death row.
23. Judge Richard M. Markus denies a request by former Mahoning County prosecutor James A. Philomena for shock probation. Philomena completes his four-year sentence for racketeering and bribery June 30 in federal prison and will be moved to state prison to serve two years for bribery and perjury.
24. General Motors confirms its new car to be built beginning next year at its Lordstown Assembly Plant will be called the Cobalt.
* Jonathan Kuzan, 23, of Youngstown, is sentenced to two years in prison, and Forrest A. Rupp Jr., 23, of Boardman, to three years, after they plead guilty to obstructing justice. They were charged with inhibiting police in their search for Martin L. Koliser Jr., who is charged with fatally shooting Youngstown Patrolman Michael T. Hartzell.
25. Salem City Council President David Ventresco, 51, gets a 60-day suspended jail sentence, and must pay a $300 fine, perform 40 hours of community service, receive anger management and substance abuse counseling and serve two years' probation after pleading no contest to domestic violence.
* A visiting judge dismisses for lack of evidence a felony charge of intimidation against Girard Police Chief Anthony Ross. The charge stemmed from a Feb. 24 confrontation between Ross and Dairy Queen owner Robert Suich.
26. Former Trumbull County Prosecutor J. Walter Dragelevich of Liberty is sentenced to two years' probation, a $5,000 fine and 100 hours of community service after pleading guilty in April to a federal odometer tampering charge.
27. A jury in Cleveland acquits Richard E. Detore, 43, of Clifton, Va., of channeling illegal gifts to former U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr.
28. "Do the right things each and every day," David L. Beamer, a 1960 graduate of Sebring McKinley High School and the father of Todd Beamer, urges his fellow alumni at the school's annual alumni banquet. Todd Beamer's words "Let's roll" initiated Flight 93 passengers' effort to overcome hijackers Sept. 11, 2001.
30. Tom Conley, president of the Warren-Trumbull Urban League, calls upon the U.S. Department of Justice to review the case of Lyndal Kimble, who said he was beaten by Warren police as they arrested him June 28 on charges of drug possession, felonious assault, resisting arrest and tampering with evidence.