A recently-renovated bridge across the Allegheny River in Parker will be dedicated on Thursday afternoon (May 2), and will be renamed the Veterans Memorial Bridge. The State Bridge at Routes 268 and 368 had been closed for some eight months while more than 4-million dollars of renovations took place. Area veterans groups will join state and…
A new Quinnipiac poll shows several potential Democratic gubernatorial candidates would defeat incumbent Republican Governor Tom Corbett if the 2014 Pennsylvania governor’s election were held today. Three of the leading Democrats who may challenge Corbett lead the governor by at least nine points in the new Quinnipiac survey of Pennsylvania voters. The poll shows former…
A Butler man was charged Saturday with two counts of homicide after two people were found stabbed to death at a remote cabin about 15 miles from Tionesta. After his arraignment, 38 year-old Scott Black was placed without bond in the Warren County Jail. Black is charged in the death of a 42 year-old Tionesta woman,…
A Seneca man was arrested in the Erie area following a shooting incident in a parking lot outside the Rainbow Gardens ballroom at Waldameer Park. Millcreek Township Police say 25 year-old Joshua Shields is accused of firing a gun that seriously injured a woman who was standing nearby. The woman is listed in serious but…
The Pittsburgh Penguins, seeded #1 in the NHL’s Eastern Conference will open Stanley Cup Playoff action at home against the #8 New York Islanders on Wednesday night, May 1 at 7:30 PM. Radio pregame airtime on 96.3 KQW will be 7:00 PM. Here is the initial schedule for the best-of-seven Penguins-Islanders series. We have listed faceoff times. Radio pregame…
2013 Pittsburgh Steelers Draft Choices: 1) Jarvis Jones - LB - Georgia 2) Le’Veon Bell – RB - Michigan State 3) Markus Wheaton - WR - Oregon State 4A) Shamarko Thomas - S - Syracuse 4B) Landry Jones - QB - Oklahoma 5) Terry Hawthorne - CB - Illinois 6A) Justin Brown - WR …
Two men were seriously injured early Saturday morning when their car overturned on the northbound lanes on Interstate 79 near Portersville in Butler County. State Police troopers say 24 year-old Devon Burkert, from Harrisville, told them he swerved to avoid striking a tractor-trailer. The car left the highway, struck an embankment and rolled over. Burkert…
A Parker man was charged following a motor vehicle crash and subsequent fire early Saturday evening. State Police in Clarion County say they stopped 65 year-old James Baucom after his vehicle had hit a utility pole and a fire hydrant in Monroe Township. Troopers say Baucom continued traveling on a flat tire, and with front…
The Pittsburgh Pirates (15-10) on Sunday used four home runs to post a 9-0 victory over the Cardinals in St. Louis, win the 3-game series two- games-to-one, and take over first place in the National League Central Division. Russell Martin homered twice, and Garrett Jones and Jose Tabata went longball once apiece. Martin and Jones both…
Billy Horschel shot an 8-under-par 64 on Sunday to win his first PGA title, the Zurich Classic at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, Louisiana. Outlasting two weather delays, Horschel also managed to stay one stroke ahead of D.A. Points, who finished one stroke back. Horschel won $1,188,000. His final four-day score was 20-under-par 268. Kyle Stanley…
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