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Exhibit to focus on Italian-Americans in Mahoning Valley

YOUNGSTOWN

“Italian Americans of the Mahoning Valley,” an exhibit designed by Youngstown State University senior Paula Schaefer, opens at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor on Thursday.

A reception is scheduled 5 to 7 p.m. at the Historical Center, also known as the Steel Museum. The museum, a site of the Ohio Historical Society and operated by the Department of History at YSU, is located at 151 W. Wood St. in Youngstown. Schaefer is studying American Studies at YSU.

The exhibit, funded by a grant from the Ohio Humanities Council, features different aspects of the mass Italian immigration to the Mahoning Valley from 1890 to 1924. The story begins with the conditions in Italy and continues to explain the emigration patterns to the Americas and the settlement in the Mahoning Valley. This exhibit combines the two fields of Italian and American Studies. The period 1890 to 1924 witnessed a large influx of Italian immigrants to the Mahoning Valley, in particular Youngstown and Niles. Interviews explain personal accounts of the time period.

Missing woman found at St. Elizabeth’s ER

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A woman whose family reported her missing was found in the Emergency Room at St. Elizabeth Health Center on Sunday.

Devita Richard, 44, was missing Sunday from her East Philadelphia Avenue residence, family members told police.

Richard’s son reported getting texts from his mother’s phone that indicated someone had abducted his mother and was threatening to kill her.

Police who responded to Richard’s residence at 10:33 a.m. Sunday said freshly broken eggs were all around where her car would have been parked.

Family members said they had no idea why anyone would want to hurt Richard.

All-day seminar on JFK killing set

YOUNGSTOWN

“JFK and Dallas,” a free seminar on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and its aftermath, will be 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7 at Youngstown State University.

The event is being conducted by the Victorian Players and J&B Production Arts Services in conjunction with a theatrical production called, “Specter of Treason-The Oswald Trial,” which runs at the Victorian Players through Sunday.

Among the featured guests at the seminar is Cyril H. Wecht, a nationally renowned forensic pathologist and a prominent critic of the Warren Commission, its “single-bullet” theory and its pinning of all culpability on Lee Harvey Oswald. Wecht will give a presentation on Kennedy’s autopsy. Also participating will be Debra Conway of JFK Lancer Productions and Publications in Dallas, a leading authority on information concerning the case. Also scheduled is Steve Jones, who has written numerous articles about the assassination. His presentation will argue that Oswald could not have fired at Kennedy due to his location in the School Book Depository.

For more details, visit http://www.specteroftreason.com/jfk-and-dallas.html.