PIAA Class “AA” First-Round Baseball Playoff Results – Monday, June 1: Quaker Valley 3, Cranberry 1 (8 inns.) Neshannock 1, Bellwood-Antis 0 Upper Dauphin 6, Richland 2 Loyalsock 5, Montrose 0 (Four other games were postponed and rescheduled for Tuesday due to wet grounds.)
Some state lawmakers are pushing a bill they say would get more people to the polls. Voter turnout across Pennsylvania in last month’s primary elections was low — about nineteen percent. Some legislators say that, to raise the number of engaged voters, the state needs to get rid of arbitrary restrictions to voting that especially…
Officials were searching Monday for the cause of a morning fire that caused a temporary evacuation of a bank in northern Butler County. Smoke was reported coming from a bank building on Route 8 in Harrisville at about 10:30 AM Monday. While numerous fire companies responded, the bank’s employees and customers were evacuated. There were…
A bridge replacement project has begun in northern Clarion County which will lead to a detour for parts of Washington and Knox Townships that will be in effect for much of the summer. The span being replaced, known as the Eisenman Bridge, carries traffic over Mahle’s Run, and is located on Marble-Strobleton Road (Route 4035) between Old…
The San Diego Padres jumped on Pittsburgh starter Jeff Locke for seven runs in four innings on Sunday night, beating the Pirates 7-1 for a split of a four-game weekend series. Six of the runs charged against Locke (3-3; 5.34 ERA) were earned runs. He surrendered eight hits with three strikeouts and three walks before…
For the tenth-time, Jimmie Johnson has won a NASCAR Sprint Cup-level race at Dover International Speedway in Delaware. Johnson won under a green-white checkered flag finish Sunday’s FedEx 400 for his fourth victory of this season. The six-time series champion has moved into third place in the current points standings, although he long ago solidified a…
Steven Bowditch put the week’s earlier rainstorms behind him, and posted a 5-under-par 64 on Sunday to win the AT&T Byron Nelson Tournament at TPC Four Seasons Resort in Irving, Texas by four strokes. For his second PGA Tour victory, Bowditch pocketed $1.278 million. The tournament finished on schedule on Sunday, despite flooding rains that…
In terms of flooding problems, it appears that Crawford County was hardest hit by the storms that repeatedly moved through western Pennsylvania on Sunday. And, on the 30th anniversary of a deadly tornado barrage that ravaged our area, wind gusts of about eighty miles per hour were measured at one time Sunday in Mercer County,…
A Kennerdell woman and her ten year-old daughter were both injured Sunday morning in a one-vehicle accident near Clintonville. The incident occurred around 10:00 AM when an S-U-V operated by Janet Buscemi left Route 308 on a curve. The vehicle shot over a guardrail, went down an embankment and slammed into two trees. Buscemi was…
Two people were injured early Sunday afternoon when a car hit a pickup on a road outside of Kennerdell. Officials identified the drivers as Tabitha Drnek, from Kennerdell, and Robert Snyder, from Mercer. Police say the motorists were headed in opposite directions on Kennerdell Road at about 1:00 PM Sunday when Drnek’s car crossed the…
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