For the third time in less than a week, a man has died as the result of a motorcycle hitting a deer on a Crawford County highway. The latest victim was a Venango County man. State Police from the Corry station say 79 year-old William Wheeling, a Sugarcreek Borough resident, died when his motorcycle struck a deer than…
A state Senator from Montgomery County has a plan to help students finance their educations without the burden of traditional loans. Senator Daylin Leach has introduced a plan he calls “Pay It Forward, Pay It Back.” He says it would set up a fund which would enable any students from Pennsylvania going to a Pennsylvania…
Police say the man who attacked Sharon High School football coach Jim Wildman in his home on Sunday afternoon is someone who played for Wildman during his first stint as Sharon coach. Like Coach Wildman, 38 year-old Joseph Koscincki, the alleged attacker, ended up in a hospital. Police say Koscinski will face charges of aggravated…
PennDOT announced Thursday that the new closing date for Route 62 in the Riverside Drive area in Cranberry Township, bordering Oil City’s East End, will be Tuesday, August 13. Originally, the road was to have been closed August 5 as part of the work being done on the realignment on the Route 62/Route 257 intersection. The latest…
Nolan Arenado doubled home the go-ahead run in the bottom of the seventh inning on Sunday afternoon, leading the Colorado Rockies to a 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates, and a sweep of the three-game weekend home series with Pittsburgh (70-47). Pittsburgh took a 2-0 lead early in Sunday’s contest on Pedro Alvarez’s 28th home…
Pennsylvania’s Little League champions from Lionville were upset in the championship game of the Mid-Atlantic Regional in Bristol, Connecticut in an 8-2 loss in the title game to Newark, Delaware, thus missing a chance at a trip to the Little League World Series in South Williamsport by one game. Lionville entered the title game with…
Jason Dufner captured his first Major golf championship on Sunday, closing four days of competition with a two-under-par 68, and beating Pennsylvania native Jim Furyk by two strokes to win the PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club’s East Course in Pittsford, New York. Dufner finished the last Major tournament of the year at (68-63-71-68) 10-under-par…
Kyle Busch held off Brad Keselowski on Sunday to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup Cheez-It 355 at the Glen at Watkins Glen International in New York. Busch now stands fifth in the Sprint Cup points standings with four races remaining before the Chase for the Cup begins. Keselowski finished in second place for the third…
The Pittsburgh Steelers dropped an 18-13 home decision to the New York Giants in their preseason opener on Saturday night in a game in which only one offensive touchdown was scored. The Giants’ Eli Manning threw a 57-yard scoring pass to Victor Cruz late in the first quarter for that lone offensive six-pointer. New York…
An Armstrong County man was killed over the weekend when his motorcycle struck a car that had entered an intersection and traveled into the path of his bike. State Police accident investigators say 60 year-old Robert Ruffner, from Templeton, had not been wearing a helmet, and was pronounced dead at the scene. The crash happened Saturday…
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