Region receives millions in natural gas impact fees
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 ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. 鈥� On a February day back in 1996, Dave Neese鈥檚 eyes welled, as he regarded his newborn daughter with a whisper and awe. 鈥淗ey, baby girl,鈥� he said, gently brushing Skylar鈥檚 cheek. 鈥淚t鈥檚 me. I鈥檓 your daddy. Happy birthday.鈥� On a February day back in 2014, ...
A Fayette County man is accused of firing at a vehicle during an unauthorized traffic stop in Bullskin Township Thursday afternoon. Daniel Swope, 25, of Acme, is accused of firing three rounds at the back of a car after several people had blocked its path east on Kreinbrook Hill Road, the complaint said. Troopers from the Pennsylvania State Police Uniontown barracks responded around 3:46 p.m. Thursday. The driver, Corey Keslar, told police another man had also thrown rocks at the vehicle. Keslar said he had been inside the car when the shots were fired, and subsequently fled the scene because he feared for his life, court paperwork stated. He described the gun as a black ...
Bill Buehner was born into a family of athletes and eventually made a name for himself in sports. The 1987 Laurel Highlands graduate was a three-sport star in high school who went on to be a four-year starter in football at Tulsa. Now he is regarded as one of Western Pennsylvania's top high ...
OMAHA, Neb. 鈥� The ball drifted into the afternoon air inside Charles Schwab Field, carrying with it about 134 years' worth of hopes, dreams, near misses and never-even-closes. When it landed 395 feet later, Gavin Kelly had himself a home run to remember. West Virginia had itself a trip ...
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) 鈥� Brandon Lowe hit a tiebreaking homer in the ninth inning, Bryan Reynolds went deep from both sides of the plate and the Pittsburgh Pirates rallied from an early four-run deficit to beat the Athletics 6-5 on Tuesday night. Reynolds finished with four hits, ...
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, ...
As we approach the beginning of Hurricane season, it might be prudent to apply what we have learned from one of our earliest weather forecasters. Long before radar, satellites and El Nino and even before the invention of the weather barometer in 1643, an explorer named Christopher Columbus ...
