“It’s been a fun ride.” Preston said

“It’s been a fun ride.”

W. Russell Preston, on the eve of his retirement as head of the Mahoning Chapter of the American Red Cross.

“I do not, no.”

Ronnie Lee Gardner, when asked if he had anything to say before he was executed by firing squad in Utah for the fatal courthouse shooting of an attorney in 1985. He was the third man to die by firing squad since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.

“They say it sounds like a freight train. It does.”

Jay Hotakainen, after a tornado ripped through Wadena, Minn. The storm, which flattened homes, toppled power lines and uprooted trees, left two people dead and dozens injured.