Sewing up a place in history
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG 鈥� This year, every member of Pennsylvania鈥檚 House ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. 鈥� An eagle chick from the Mon Valley is resting and recuperating at the Cheat Lake-based Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia after an emergency weekend surgery to extract a fishhook from its stomach. The bird 鈥� known as USS11 鈥� is part of a family of eagles 鈥� ...
NASHUA, N.H. 鈥� John Hancock will forever be known as the first of 56 delegates to sign the Declaration of Independence, but Dr. Matthew Thornton of Londonderry, N.H., has the distinction of being the last delegate to leave his mark on one of America鈥檚 greatest documents. Born in Northern ...
When a team with high expectations not only reaches but surpasses its goals, that makes for a special year. Jefferson-Morgan was such a team this past boys basketball season. The Rockets not only achieved their quest to earn a section championship for the first time since 2001 and win a ...
Brayden Ellsworth didn't allow a hit for the second consecutive start as the Rockets rolled past the host Maples, 17-0, in a three-inning Section 1-A baseball game on Monday. Ellsworth threw a seven-inning no-hitter in a 6-1 win over West Greene on April 14. John Woodward drove in three ...
PITTSBURGH 鈥� The Pittsburgh Penguins' resilience carried them to a surprise playoff berth. Sidney Crosby and company will need to rely on it, maybe a lot of it, if they want their postseason appearance to be more than a token cameo. It took the Philadelphia Flyers roughly 48 hours to take ...
Cheers: We鈥檙e in the home stretch of the 缅北禁地鈥檚 annual Give-A-Christmas campaign to support the Salvation Army service centers in Fayette County. It鈥檚 not too late to contribute to help us meet our $10,000 goal. All donations remain in the local area to help fund the ...
An interesting story in the spring issue of National Wildlife magazine begins with the writer鈥檚 favorite slang expression, 鈥渢ouch grass,鈥� which refers to kids who use it to refer to friends who are spending too much time online and have lost touch with reality. With those two words they ...
