It鈥檚 been 100 years since miners in Logan County, West Virginia, took up arms against law enforcement, private security forces and strikebreakers in the Battle of Blair Mountain.What started as a protest march and an attempt at unionization ended in bloody conflict. It wasn鈥檛 the first time ...
<strong>Jeers:</strong> A challenge encouraging students to vandalize school property has gone viral on the TikTok social media platform, and some kids in Fayette, Greene and Washington counties are participating. The trend involves students vandalizing or destroying ...
The ongoing opioid addiction crisis began with excessive distribution of a new generation of effective opioid painkillers, such as OxyContin.But with new prescribing protocols and comprehensive prescription-tracking by physicians and pharmacies, the overwhelming driver of the carnage is the ...
In good times, serving on a school board is not exactly thankless work, but it鈥檚 hardly glamorous.School board members typically sign off on textbook choices, hire everyone from cafeteria personnel to superintendents, read the fine print in budgets, and consider nuts-and-bolts questions like ...
<strong>Cheers:</strong> Five years in the making, Brownsville is restoring a piece of its history with a Coca-Cola mural project in the heart of its downtown area overlooking the Monongahela River. The brainchild of Mayor Ross Swords, the mural at 25 Market Street ...
Pennsylvania has an opportunity to extract a modicum of justice from drug companies that brought untold death and suffering to vulnerable people in what has been dubbed the opioid epidemic.The Pennsylvania Attorney General鈥檚 office is recommending state officials sign on to a $26 billion ...