In the lead-up to the local elections of 1935, a group of Fayette County Democrats held a political rally alongside a highway near Brownsville.The tone of the rally was set by Charles Lewellyn, a candidate for judge, who told the gathering that he had been in German Township recently when an ...
Last season, before tip-offs at West Virginia University home basketball games, the public address announcer would call the crowd鈥檚 attention to the school鈥檚 promise to treat every person with respect.The pronouncement usually came amidst a welter of noise and other distractions, but ...
Until recently, the last time a member of the vaunted Kennedy family was in presidential campaign mode was on the evening of Aug. 12, 1980, in New York City. The occasion was that year鈥檚 Democratic convention.It was Jimmy Carter鈥檚 convention (sort of) but Ted Kennedy鈥檚 night. The senator ...
Municipal government is frequently a tale of failed attempts, of civic woe compounded by familiarity: The garbage doesn鈥檛 get picked up, the pothole doesn鈥檛 get filled in, the yard across the street remains an eyesore.For years, Uniontown鈥檚 Bailey Park was pretty much neglected. Once in a ...
If this is Sunday, April 23, 2023, then it must be National Table Top Tennis Day ... and National Lost Dog Awareness Day ... and National Picnic Day ... and National Lovers鈥� Day ... and National German Beer Day ... and National Cherry Cheesecake Day ... and World Book Night ... and St. ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to the prescription drug mifepristone in 2000. Last week, 23 years and five presidential administrators later, a federal judge in Texas placed a preliminary hold on the use of mifepristone, one drug in a two-drug combination used to ...