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Today is Wednesday, Oct. 7, the 280th day of 2015. There are 85 days left in the year.

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1858: The fifth debate between Illinois senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas takes place in Galesburg.

2004: President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney concede that Saddam Hussein has no weapons of mass destruction as they try to shift the Iraq war debate to a new issue, arguing that Saddam was abusing a U.N. oil-for-food program.

2014: North Korea publicly acknowledges to the international community the existence of its “reform through labor” camps, a mention that appears to come in response to a highly critical U.N. human-rights report.

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1990: Youngstown Municipal Court Judge Andrew Polovischak Jr., who says he ran on a “law and order campaign,” is so angered by Police Chief Randall Wellington’s decision to restrict new admissions to the overcrowded city jail that he threatens to hold Wellington in contempt of court.

The Ohio Wildlife Council hopes to send a friendly message to Canadian fishing interests after approving a redaction from six to five in the number of walleye that fishermen can catch per day in Lake Erie.

The Tom Moore family of Adamsville, Pa., adopts Comanche, a young stallion captured near Rock Springs, Wyo., as part of the Interior Department’s effort to relocate excessive numbers of grazing wild horses from public land.

1975: Boardman trustees agree to take Robinwood Lane School area residents’ complaints about a proposed 44-acre, eight-diamond baseball complex before the Youngstown Hospital Association Board of Directors in an effort to persuade the board to cancel its contract leasing the property.

Dr. Russell W. Rummell, 75, medical director of the Youngstown Hospital Association from 1948 until his retirement in 1966, dies at his Ottawa Drive home.

Charges will not be filed against a Mahoning County special deputy sheriff in the hit-skip death of David R. Jack, 18, who was struck on Route 165 Aug. 17. Although the boy’s tissue was found on the deputy’s damaged car, Assistant Prosecutor Richard Ross said it could not be proven that the deputy’s car was the only vehicle to strike Jack.

1965: Municipal Judge Don L. Hanni allows two Youngstown University students to be released from City Jail to attend classes while they serve 30-day sentences for fighting at Rayen Stadium.

Gov. James Rhodes’ campaign to promote Ohio’s food-processing industry inspires Ohio Sen. Charles Carney to propose tomato juice as the state’s official drink. The resolution is approved overwhelmingly.

The Boardman PTA Council announces its endorsement of a $5.3 million bond issue to build a new high school.

1940: Flames leap more than 100 feet into the air as fire destroys the old Republic Steel shafting works on Washington Street in Smoky Hollow.

Atty. John W. Ford is chairman of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce forum committee that will bring James P. Young, an American newspaperman who was held prisoner by the Japanese, to Youngstown as a speaker at the Hotel Ohio.

Myron I. Arms, former president of Aetna-Standard Engineering Co., purchases the 40-year-old Franklin Engineering Co. of Franklin, Pa.