Travelers on the Pennsylvania Turnpike will pay five percent more in tolls next year. The increase will cover both cash customers and those who use the EZPass system. Turnpike fees have risen each year this decade, but this will mark the first time since 2011 that rates will climb by the same percentage for all…
The work calendar for state lawmakers negotiating a new Pennsylvania budget could be longer than usual. House and Senate Republican leaders are not expected to meet the end-of-June budget deadline. Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pillegi told Radio PA News lawmakers should be prepared to miss it by at least a week. The state faces a…
A Seneca man has been sentenced to up to five years in state prison for his guilty plea to one count of involuntary manslaughter for supplying the drug with which an Oil City man overdosed and died. 24 year-old Jarrod Goheen settled for a plea bargain Monday, just before his trial was to have begun…
PennDOT said late Monday that two bridges on Route 666 in Forest County remained closed due to damage from flooding which occurred on Friday. PennDOT spokesman Jim Carroll says the bridges span Bobbs Creek, west of Mayburg in Kingsley Township, and Porcupine Run, west of Minister Road in Howe Township. Detours have been posted. The…
Pittsburgh Pirates center fielder Andrew McCutchen was named National League Player-of-the-Week on Monday. McCutchen led the league last week with four home runs, 13 RBI’s, 30 total bases and a 1.034 slugging percentage. He hit .483 with a .559 on-base percentage, also league-leading numbers. “Cutch” recorded multi-hit games in all of his team’s games during…
For the first time in the 84-year history of United States competition in World Cup soccer tournaments, covering 30 games, a substitute player scored Monday night, and that sub was responsible for the game-winning goal in a 2-1 U.S. victory over Ghana in their 2014 World Cup opener in Natal, Brazil. 21 year-old John Brooks…
Eight-time National League batting champion Tony Gwynn has died at the age of 54. Gwynn had been on medical leave from his job as the baseball coach at San Diego State since late March while undergoing treatments for cancer. In 20 seasons with the San Diego Padres, Gwynn posted a .338 career batting average and…
The San Antonio Spurs clinched their fifth NBA championship in six tries in the finals on Sunday night with a 104-87 home win over the defending champion Miami Heat. Kawhi Leonard scored 22 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, earning the series Most Valuable Player award in the process. The Spurs won this year’s best-of-seven final…
29 year-old German Martin Kaymer led “wire-to-wire” and won the U.S. Open golf championship at Pinehurst #2 in North Carolina. Kaymer fashioned a one-over-par 69 in Sunday’s final round to finish the four-day affair at 9-under-par 271, and defeat Rickie Fowler and Erik Compton by eight strokes apiece. He missed by one stroke becoming the…
The Pittsburgh Pirates failed to hold new starter Vance Worley’s 2-0 lead, and dropped a 3-2, 10-inning decision to the Marlins on Sunday afternoon, failing in an attempt to sweep a series in Miami for the first time since 1993. Former Pirate Casey McGehee drove in all three Miami runs, tying the score with a…
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