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CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK » TODAY’S ISSUE U OPEN HOUSES, A4 • TRIBUTES, A7 • WORLD, A8 • BUSINESS, A10 • CLASSIFIEDS, B5 • OUTDOORS, B7 • RELIGION, B8 • TV WEEK POLAND GIRLS PLAY FOR IT ALL ILLEGAL GAMBLING GET YOURSELF CHECKED OUT ESPN2 to carry game today Boardman probe brings 4 arrests Wellness walk next week SPORTS | B1 LOCAL | A3 ERNIE BROWN JR. | A2 FOR DAILY & BREAKING NEWS LOCALLY OWNED SINCE 1869 SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2017 U 75¢ FRANK WATSON, 92 WASHINGTON Wet weather fails to dampen appetite Community for Greater Youngstown Italian Festival Sessions vows leader, YSU to lower boom benefactor Pasta & puddles on leakers of mourned classifi ed info By AMANDA TONOLI and KALEA HALL Criminal probes triple [email protected] YOUNGSTOWN in Trump’s early months After a 10-year battle Associated Press with Parkinson’s disease, WASHINGTON Frank Charles Watson – also Attorney General Jeff Sessions known as “Dude” – died at pledged Friday to rein in government age 92 Thursday at his Can- leaks that he said undermine Ameri- fi eld home. can security, taking an aggressive pub- Watson, lic stand after being called weak on a lover and the matter by President graduate of Donald Trump. The nation’s top Youngstown law-enforcement of- State Univer- ficial cited no current sity, a phi- investigations in which lanthropist, disclosures of informa- family man Watson tion had jeopardized and local the country, but said leader, wore the number of criminal Sessions TRIBUTE his hard- ON PAGE A7 leak probes had more U working de- than tripled in the early INSIDE: Is meanor and months of the Trump the U.S. the 98-pound pride on his sleeve through- administration. Justice weakling out his life. Department officials Watson’s nickname, of global also said they were re- “Dude,” was coined from his trade? The viewing guidelines put daughter Ellen Tressel’s son, president in place to make it diffi - Eric. thinks so. cult for the government “My son put that handle A10 on him when he was 5, and it to subpoena journalists See WATSON, A5 See LEAKS, A5 ROGER JONES, 89 YOUNGSTOWN Fireline founder, NIKOS FRAZIER | THE VINDICATOR Beating victim’s Luigi Lombardi of Hermitage, Pa., calls out numbers in Italian during a game of morra at the 32nd annual Greater ‘champion’ of Youngstown Italian Festival downtown Friday. See photo gallery on Vindy.com. By GRAIG GRAZIOSI niece expresses children’s center [email protected] YOUNGSTOWN HE 32ND ANNUAL GREATER anger, frustration remembered Youngstown Italian Festival By DAVID SKOLNICK kicked off Friday with an abun- By JOE GORMAN [email protected] dance of pasta and puddles in [email protected] Tdowntown’s Central Square. YOUNGSTOWN YOUNGSTOWN The celebration of the The founder of Fireline The big question LeTisha Underwood U INSIDE: A city’s Italian cultural her- has about her uncle’s beating is: Why? Inc. who shares the name Friday after- itage includes food ven- Why would someone encourage two of the downtown children’s noon storm dors, a variety of musical men to fi ght? Why would someone pay science and technology cen- knocked acts, raffles, auctions, a money if one of them was knocked ter with his wife has died. down trees pageant and a morra out? Why would someone live-stream Roger and power tournament. the video on the internet? Why didn’t Jones died lines, leaving Thunderstorms rolled someone try to stop it or at least help Wednesday. thousands into the city in earnest in her 64-year-old uncle before he was He was 89. without the late afternoon, dump- knocked unconscious? Jones, power. A3 ing heavy rain on the net- “Why would you do something like originally work of tents and food that?” she asked. “What would enter in from Buffalo, trailers lining Federal Street between your mind that you would fi nd it enter- Phelps Street and Champion Street. N.Y., came to taining and not try to intervene?” Jones By 6 p.m., the streets were quiet other Her uncle, James Underwood, has the Mahon- than the impact of raindrops on the as- been in St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hos- ing Valley in the 1960s, and phalt. Most attendees sought refuge from pital since late Monday, where he was in 1967, he opened Fireline, the rain inside the wine and beer tent at taken by paramedics after he was in- which makes industrial ce- the edge of the festival. jured at a fi ght at the Shell gas station, ramic products for the aero- Chelsea Fentress was working at the 3200 Market St., on the South Side that space industry. Jessica Jeinselman of Canfi eld gets a cavatelli cone from Frank was streamed live on Facebook. See FESTIVAL, A5 LaRocca of Pasqualle LaRocca Concessions at the festival. See JONES, A5 See BEATING, A5 Offering: WARREN Brow Restoration INDEX Mink Lash Extensions Organic Airbrush Make-Up Business . A10 Organic Rapid Spray Tan Classifi eds . B5-6 Police continue investigation Age-Defying Facials Comics . C4 Damage Free Hair Extensions Crossword . C3 Complete Hair Services Daily Briefi ng . A2 into shootings that left 3 dead Editorial . A9 Legal ads. B5 By JOE GORMAN SO FAR IN 2017, give the city seven homicides Lotteries . A2 [email protected] for 2017. Society. C1 WARREN TRUMBULL COUNTY Warren had four homicides Sports. .B1-5 Call logs from the Trumbull HAS 13 HOMICIDES. in 2016, according to Vindica- Tributes. A7 County 911 Center show there tor fi les. TV Week . D1-12 was a lot of activity Thursday LAST YEAR, THE COUNTY Killed in the shooting were Valley Life. 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