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TV show ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ filmed at Washington County Airport

A little bit of Hollywood recently landed in Washington County. A production crew for the television drama series “Mayor of Kingstown” starring actor Jeremy Renner visited the Washington County Airport two evenings last week to film scenes for the critically acclaimed show. The series, ...

Cellphone ban gets good reception at Uniontown school

Lafayette Middle School students were given an early taste of what life might be like for all Pennsylvania students soon. For the last two months of the school year, the school tried a pilot program where students could not access their cellphones during the day, Superintendent Daniel Bosnic ...

A life of service

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one in a monthlong series of profiles of the people who live and work in Washington, Greene and Fayette counties, in celebration of the nation's 250th anniversary. If anyone’s biked down the Great Allegheny Passage trail near Connellsville or walked along the West ...

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Persistence pays off

Caden Holland attempted to try out for Barca Academy when he was 12 years old, but after reaching out to the only U.S. Soccer Development Academy program in the country with a full-time residential program partnered with a top-international professional club, the striker was informed he would ...

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WVU’s magical run ends in CWS semifinals

OMAHA, Neb. – Ben Lumsden’s fly ball in the bottom of the ninth Wednesday, man, for a split second, it looked really good for West Virginia. “Definitely thought it was a homer,” WVU baseball coach Steve Sabins later said following the Mountaineers’ 12-7 loss against North Carolina in ...

Brestensky pitches Hopwood past Oakland

Hopwood Village Plaza manager Buddy Marra was prepared to go to his bullpen in the seventh inning of Thursday's Fayette County Baseball League game at Oakland with his team clinging to a 3-2 lead. Justin Brestensky would have none of that. "I had Santino (Marra) warming up since the fifth ...

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OP-ED: Changing the direction of U.S. labor

Memorial Day, a day set aside to honor fallen veterans, is a red letter day for American labor - literally. On Memorial Day 1937, union blood was spilled in Chicago, when 10 were killed and nearly a hundred protesters were injured during a steelworkers' strike rally. It was a tragic, ...

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Timeline of the universe

Universe is defined in our dictionaries as all existing matter and space considered as a whole, the cosmos. It is believed to be at least 10 billion light years in diameter and has been expanding since its beginning, 13,800,000,000 years ago, known as the BIG BANG. In less than a second; ...

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