"Another banker arrested,'' read the bold front-page headline atop the Feb. 8, 1952 edition of the Pittsburgh Press.The Press reported that there had been a 鈥渨ave鈥� of bank embezzlements in the region within the past year and a half that reached a total of $3.5 million.Those were the ...
Rand Paul is a rising star in the Republican Party. The Pittsburgh native and junior U.S. Senator from Kentucky has been on the cutting edge of Republican foot-dragging since he was sworn-in on Jan. 5, 2011.Unlike the flamboyant, filibuster-happy Senator from Texas -- Ted Cruz -- when Rand Paul ...
I always seem to come across lots of world class musicians who鈥檝e paid visits and, of course, brought their musical talents to Fayette County.My favorite find in that area was the October 1920 concert performed by John Philip Sousa at the Penn Theatre in downtown Uniontown.But in early winter ...
The darling of the outer fringe of the Republican Party, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, paid a visit to Iowa a few days back. He took a victory lap (of sorts) for helping to shut down the government and causing it to lose billions of dollars.Sen. Cruz, R-Texas, they say, is cruising toward a run for the ...
Nothing would please Republicans more than an Obamacare failure.You already knew that, didn鈥檛 you? Since March 23, 2010, the day President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, Republicans have tried to either repeal it or pull funding from it over 40 times. In ...
With Halloween fast approaching in 1952, there was a 鈥渕ysterious鈥� local sighting that made the front page of the Uniontown Evening Standard on Oct. 28. 鈥淛ust What Is 鈥楾he Thing鈥� Seen Near Elliottsville,鈥� asked the headline.It seems a Summit Hotel waitress claimed that she and her ...