Toronto News Archives

Eleven teachers and administrators throughout the Gem City have been presented with the Joseph and Anna Marie Karaffa Award for Excellence in Education.

The city chamber has set the date for its annual awards banquet for May 28 at the Black Horse Landing restaurant, formerly the north end marina, at 1200 North River Ave.

Every history has a starting point, and for Toronto, it began at the mouth of Croxton's Run where the currents of time have eddied sometimes as violently as the jaded green currents flowing before it.

For the second time in 8-year-old Joey O'Brien's life, a Stat MedEvac helicopter carried the boy through the sky above the Gem City.

Lee Performing with John Prine was "surreal." Since releasing his first EP in 2003, singer-songwriter Amos Lee has had a number of experiences that are the kinds of things most musicians wait a lifetime to experience.

CHESTER Ronald J. Yorko, 67, of Carolina Avenue died at 1:14 p.m. Thurdsay, May 7, 2009, at the East Liverpool City Hospital following a brief illness.

Despite its Canadian name, Toronto always has been a city of patriotism and fierce national pride as currently displayed by its array of American flags lining its streets.

According to unofficial tallies from the Jefferson County Board of Elections, incumbent Tom Thomas, 214 N. Third St., defeated challenger Frank Hostina, 907 N. Third St., for the Democratic nomination for council president in the November General Election.

Cited: Renata Patrone, 27, no address listed by police, driving with a suspended license; and Robert L. Allen, 57, 633 Lawson Ave., driving with a suspended license and failure to signal lane change.

Dallas Cowboy football player Victor Butler, right, and DeAngelo Smith, left, along with teammates and staff search the wreckage for trapped people following the collapse of the team's indoor practice facility during a storm on Saturday, May 2, 2009 in Irving, Texas.

HOOD, Leona F. 70, of Toronto, Ohio, passed away Wednesday, April 29, 2009, in the Trinity West Medical Center in Steubenville following a battle with cancer.

The Angel Food Ministries, a national, nonprofit organization that makes high-quality food available for all without regard for income, will be at Toronto Church of the Nazarene, 507 Findley St., from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. May 16 delivering free ordered food.