State Senator Scott Hutchinson’s office announced recently that some $72,000 in grants is coming to a pair of Venango County communities for the further development of recreational facilities. Oil City will receive $62,000 for the development of the Erie-to-Pittsburgh hiking and biking trail in the city. That would include the construction of a half-mile trail from…
An Oil City man has been jailed amid accusations that he had been robbing his mother to buy drugs. Oil City Police say 29 year-old Wayne Kightlinger is accused of taking his mother’s bank debit card from her room on three successive nights last week, and of withdrawing money with it at ATM machines. The…
Following a pair of low-scoring overtime losses (1-0 and 2-1) over the weekend, the Pittsburgh Penguins discovered their scoring power once again on Tuesday night as they routed the New York Rangers 7-2 at PPG Paints Arena. Throw out the overtime loss, and the Pens are 8-0 in December, and they now find themselves back…
The governing board of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education on Tuesday ratified new contracts for faculty members and coaches at Pennsylvania’s fourteen state-owned universities. The decision affects nearly 5,500 members of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties, including many at Clarion, Slippery Rock and Edinboro Universities who had been without…
Members of Pennsylvania’s Electoral College, meeting Monday in Harrisburg, cast all twenty of the state’s electoral votes for President-elect Donald Trump. Trump is the first Republican Presidential candidate to win Pennsylvania since 1988. The Keystone State, with the nation’s fifth-largest electoral vote total, was a key factor in Trump’s victory. Trump did not win the…
The Pittsburgh Pirates have signed free agent right-handed pitcher Daniel Hudson to a two-year contract. In parts of seven Major League seasons with the Chicago White Sox and mostly with the Arizona Diamondbacks, Hudson has posted a 35-23 record with a 3.94 Earned Run Average. Last year with Arizona, Hudson went 3-and-2. His ERA was…
NFL Results – Week 15 Thursday, December 15 Seattle 24, Los Angeles 3 Saturday, December 17 Miami 34, NY Jets 13 Sunday, December 18 Pittsburgh 24, Cincinnati 20 Baltimore 27, Philadelphia 26 Buffalo 33, Cleveland 13 Houston 21, Jacksonville 20 New England 16, Denver 3 NY Giants 17, Detroit 6 Tennessee 19,…
A Clarion man faces 47 charges and a Clarion woman has been charged with 31 counts in a case which investigators say involves the sexual abuse of a young girl. 69 year-old Bassam Yakteen and 30 year-old Stephanie Andreas were arraigned on the charges last week in Clarion County. Andreas is already in jail on charges…
Two people have been charged in Franklin now that city police have assembled the many pieces of a puzzle that involves an allegedly stolen and forged check, a crash involving a third party who was driving a car belonging to one of the suspects, and what police say was a false report that the vehicle had…
Ben Roethlisberger threw a 24-yard touchdown pass to Eli Rogers midway through the fourth quarter on Sunday, leading the Pittsburgh Steelers to a 24-20 road win over the Bengals in Cincinnati. Until the Steelers’ only TD of the game, Pittsburgh had relied on a team record-tying six field goals by Chris Boswell, three of them…
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