The Pittsburgh Penguins won a pair of NHL games over the weekend, both clinching a Stanley Cup Playoff berth and reaching the 100-point mark for the tenth time in team history. The Pens have now been victors in 12 of their last 13 games. Pittsburgh wrapped up the weekend with a 6-2 win over Philadelphia…
Pulling ahead on a restart with eleven laps remaining, Kyle Busch outran A.J. Allmendinger to win for the first time in 31 starts at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia, taking Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race. Busch led for 352 laps, the most since Bobby Hamilton in 1978. Kyle Larson finished third, followed by Austin Dillon and…
Francisco Liriano tied a Pirates opening day record with ten strikeouts, as Pittsburgh defeated St. Louis 4-1 in Major League Baseball’s overall opener on Sunday afternoon at PNC Park in Pittsburgh. Liriano also drove in the season’s first run with an RBI single in the second inning. Over six scoreless innings, Liriano allowed only three…
In his 106th appearance on the PGA Tour, Jim Herman finally hit the jackpot on Sunday, winning the Shell Houston Open at The Golf Club of Houston in Humble, Texas. After a chip-in for a birdie on the 16th hole in the final round on Sunday, Herman parred both of the last two holes for a one-shot…
North Carolina (33-6) and Villanova (34-5) posted national semifinal wins in Houston on Saturday night and will meet Monday evening in the NCAA championship game. Villanova set a Final Four record for largest margin of victory in a 95-51 semifinal victory over Oklahoma, while the Tar Heels downed Syracuse 83-66. North Carolina has won five…
A young Franklin man has been charged in an incident in which he was accused of trying to solicit sexual activity from a male juvenile. 18 year-old Nathaniel Wheeler was charged late last week in a series of incidents which were alleged to have occurred at a Franklin residence. Investigators from the Franklin City Police…
Police officials in Mercer County are investigating a pair of burglaries that occurred at county stores last week. The first happened at a deli/general store on Route 19. In that incident, someone broke through a rear window, stole money from a cash register, and took several bags containing aluminum cans plus an undisclosed amount of pop.…
A Sandy Lake man escaped injury on Friday morning when his truck rolled over on Raymilton Road in Frenchcreek Township. State Police accident investigators say 61 year-old James Graham was southbound shortly before 7:00 AM when his pickup traveled off the left side of the highway. The truck struck an embankment and rolled onto its…
In a game that featured five Cincinnati home runs and six errors by Pittsburgh, the Pirates dropped a 13-6 game to the Cincinnati Reds in their preseason finale played yesterday at the Bucs’ “AAA” facility in Indianapolis. With the Pirates’ fielding woes, only seven of the thirteen runs scored by the Reds (16-16) were earned…
Unemployment numbers climbed in the Oil Region in February. In numbers released late last week by the state’s Department of Labor and Industry, Mercer County was the only county surrounding Venango County to see jobless figures drop in February. Unemployment there slid from 5.3 percent in January to 5.2 percent. In Venango County, where 1,500…
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