Topic: Youngstown
AP News | 2010-03-09 04:32:15
Detroit, gutted by industrial decline, wants to demolish blighted homes, restore green space
Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile. Operating on a scale ...
AP News | 2010-02-12 01:07:56
Butler's Gordon Hayward, center, struggles against Youngstown's Ashen Ward, left, and Eddie D'Haiti (24) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Youngstown, Ohio, on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Stahl)
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AP News | 2010-02-05 11:31:07
Tony Basista, 49, talks about the decline of his neighborhood he lives in Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010, in Youngstown, Ohio. The church neighborhood, once populated by those working in the steel mills that disappeared in the 1980s, now is pockmarked ...
AP News | 2010-02-05 11:31:00
<div id="subtitle">Ohio city shaken by church killing as it labors to reinvent itself, remove vestiges of decline</div><div><p>In a hard-luck city trying to keep people from moving out, Angeline Fimognari stayed put, often attending Mass twice daily at her beloved "St. Dom's" — almost a mini-fortress with ...
