After closing the regular season with back-to-back overtime losses, the Pittsburgh Penguins, as the number-2 seed in the NHL’s Eastern Conference, have drawn the Columbus Blue Jackets as their opponent in the first round of the NHL’s Stanley Cup Playoffs. Game one of the best-of-seven, opening round series will be played Wednesday night at 7:30…
For the second time in three years, Bubba Watson has won the Masters, becoming the 17th golfer to ever win the prestigious golf event at Augusta National in Georgia more than one time. As 20 year-old Jordan Spieth attempted to become the youngest-ever Masters winner and fell from two strokes ahead after the seventh hole…
The Pittsburgh Pirates managed just four hits on Sunday in a 4-1 loss in Milwaukee as the red-hot Brewers completed a three-game sweep of the Bucs at Miller Park with their ninth consecutive victory. Andrew McCutchen’s sacrifice fly in the fourth inning provided the only run for Pittsburgh (6-6). Otherwise, they were unable to provide…
Kevin Harvick passed Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Saturday night on the second try at a green-white, checkered flag finish to become the first two-race winner of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup season, capturing the Bojangles Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. With Saturday’s win combined with an earlier victory in Phoenix, Harvick appears to…
The state House Democratic Policy Committee this week held a public hearing in Harrisburg to gather testimony concerning the possibility of increasing Pennsylvania’s minimum wage and on unemployment compensation issues. State Representative Patty Kim, from Dauphin County, has introduced legislation that would increase the state’s minimum wage to $9.00 an hour within sixty days of…
A Tionesta man has been sentenced to five years probation for harming a one month-old child at a residence in President Township in late 2012. 25 year-old Skyler Wood was also ordered by Venango County Court to pay nearly $32,000 in restitution and court fees. Wood entered a guilty plea in February to a charge…
Police officials in Crawford County were searching Friday morning for two men who robbed a Meadville-area convenience store at gunpoint. The incident occurred shortly after 2:30 AM Friday at a store on Route 322 in Vernon Township just west of Meadville. Two cashiers told police the men pulled a silver handgun on them, demanded and…
A judge in Philadelphia on Thursday restored about $120 million of the money Pennsylvania will receive from the Tobacco Settlement Fund. The ruling by Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Patricia McInerney means the state would receive about $270 million this year. Originally, that figure stood at $330 million, but last fall an arbitration board ruled that…
Saturday (April 12) will mark the opening of the 2014 trout season for all of the Pennsylvania counties which were not granted early starts two weeks ago. Since the middle of February, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and many volunteers have been busy stocking the state’s waterways with brook, brown and rainbow trout. Before…
Groundbreaking for the new Venango County Humane Society shelter is scheduled for Saturday morning (April 12). After numerous delays and several changes in the proposed location for the new site, construction contracts were finalized about a week ago, and the new shelter will be built near the former Cranberry High School/Christian Life Academy building on South…
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