Tomorrow marks the 60th anniversary of day Uniontown native Gen. George C. Marshall accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.He was pictured on the front page of the Uniontown Evening Standard on Dec. 11, 1953, with the caption, in part, saying 鈥淭he ceremony was marred by noisy ...
George Zimmerman is back in the news. Trouble just has a way of finding him. Since his arrest for the murder of an unarmed teenager, he鈥檚 become a household name. The ex-neighborhood watchman needs somebody to watch him.Since he was acquitted in that case in July, he鈥檚 had numerous brushes ...
It鈥檚 beginning to look a lot like, well, Thanksgiving, everywhere we go.That means the start of the Christmas season, with its long lines at checkout counters, and heavy Internet traffic 鈥� filled with shoppers eagerly hoping to make those great deals.But long before there was anything ...
U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., is facing an unspeakable tragedy. The sorrow caused when a parent outlives a child, I鈥檓 told, is excruciating and unthinkable. Inhofe鈥檚 52 year-old son, Perry, died in a plane crash last week. He genuinely deserves our condolences.Yet, there鈥檚 something ...
"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 ...
