It’s Easter eve, and the folks at WalletHub have compiled a list of facts and stats about the


It’s Easter eve, and the folks at WalletHub have compiled a list of facts and stats about the holiday. Here’s a sampling:

v $18.1 billion: Total Easter-related spending expected in 2019.

v $151: Average Easter spending among people celebrating.

v 66 percent: That’s how many parents will make Easter baskets for their kids.

v 91 million: Number of chocolate bunnies sold in the United States each year for Easter.

v 59 percent: That’s how many Americans prefer to eat the ears first on a chocolate bunny.

“Ransom” (8 p.m., CBS): The crisis resolution team is brought in by the FBI tlo negotiate with a sociopath who is targeting diabetics with tainted insulin.

"48 Hours” (10 p.m., CBS): In her first American television interview, the sister of an Irish businessman who was killed in Winston-Salem, N.C., speaks out to defend his honor. Jason Corbett was beaten to death in 2015 by his American au-pair-turned-wife, Molly Corbett, and her father, former FBI agent Tom Martens. Corbett and Martens maintained they killed Jason Corbett in self-defense after he tried to strangle Molly. They claimed he was abusive to Molly for years, and he had been threatening to kill Molly the night he died. Prosecutors said Corbett’s death was murder. Now, Tracey Lynch is trying to set the record straight on her slain brother.

LOCAL TOPICS ON TV

“Community Connection” (Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on 21 WFMJ-TV and 11 a.m. on WBCB-TV): The Men’s Rally in the Valley will celebrate its 10th event on April 27 at the Covelli Centre, Youngstown. Bob Popa will join host Madonna Chism Pinkard to discuss the event and the committee’s response to the community outcry on their selection of speakers.

Next, Katie Burkey and John Brkic with the Whispering Pines District Great Trails Council will discuss the 14th Celebration of Scouting community breakfast Wednesday.

Pamela Stephens and Eva Rollison of the Richard Rollison IV Foundation will discuss their annual scholarship banquet.

“A Conversation with Dee” (Sunday at 7:30 a.m. on WYTV-TV): Host Dee Crawford talks with leaders of ACTION about their upcoming banquet and the work they do in the Valley.

ENTERTAINMENT DIGEST

‘Slovak Jews’ exhibit, lecture at Tyler Center

YOUNGSTOWN

“The Tragedy of Slovak Jews,” an exhibit on the Holocaust in Slovakia curated by the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will be on display at the Tyler History Center from April 30 through May 31.

Rebekah Klein-Pejsova, an expert on Slovak and Jewish history from Purdue University, will present a free lecture at the exhibit’s opening event at 6 p.m. April 30.

There will be time to view the exhibit both before and after the talk. For information, go to mahoninghistory.org.