The 2015 bear harvest in Pennsylvania has been reported by the Pennsylvania Game Commission as 3,748 – the third-largest on record, and just 23 behind the 2014 total. The state’s record of 4,350 was set in 2011. The Game Commission estimates there are about 18,000 bears in Pennsylvania, a figure they say has remained about…
A record number of points were scored Sunday night in the Western Conference’s 196-173 victory over the East in the annual NBA All-Star Game played in Toronto. For the second straight year, Russell Westbrook earned the game’s Most Valuable Player award, scoring 31 points to pace the West. Stephen Curry added 26 points for the…
The National Weather Service has posted a Winter Weather Advisory for the Oil Region, effective from Monday morning (Feb. 15) through 1:00 PM Tuesday afternoon. Freezing drizzle could accompany any snow early Monday, and freezing rain could be mixed in on Tuesday morning. Up to three inches of snow accumulation are possible, mostly from mid-afternoon through…
An Allegheny County man has become the second man charged in the 2012 armed robbery of a supermarket in the Hasson Heights section of Oil City. 34 year-old Justin Dignard is also accused of a robbery at a general store in the city’s Siverly neighborhood in December, 2011. Dignard is the brother of 28 year-old…
A DuBois man was hospitalized in Pittsburgh following a three-vehicle crash which closed Interstate 80 in Mercer County for a brief period on Saturday morning. State Police officials say a car driven by 72 year-old Richard Wolfgang was struck twice from behind by a tractor-trailer and was knocked into a third vehicle. Wolfgang was airlifted…
A Warren County man escaped injury early Saturday morning when his S-U-V left a northern Venango County highway and slid on its roof down an embankment. State Police accident investigators tell KQW that 45 year-old Darrin Crabtree, from Pittsfield, was traveling south on Route 36 in Allegheny Township shortly after 2:00 AM Saturday when his…
PennDOT says work on a $13.4 million improvement project on Interstate 80 in Mercer County is scheduled to begin on February 29. The project, which could run through mid-November, will restore the pavement on the highway from the Mercer exit to the Pennsylvania/Ohio border. Work will start on the westbound lanes at the Mercer exit…
Vaughn Taylor held off Phil Mickelson on Sunday to win the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am for his first PGA Tour victory since 2005. Mickelson missed a five-foot birdie putt on the final hole which would have forced a playoff. He finished with a 72, while Taylor closed out with a final-round score of 65. Taylor’s…
Brice Johnson led a balanced scoring attack with 19 points on Sunday afternoon as North Carolina (21-4; 10-2 ACC) beat up on the Pitt Panthers 85-64 in an Atlantic Coast Conference basketball game played in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Michael Young and James Robinson both tallied 15 points for Pitt (17-7; 6-6), but Jamel Artis…
With team captain Shavon Shields on the bench with a concussion, Andrew White III – playing with a comparatively minor head cold and ear infection – scored 35 points on Saturday night, leading Nebraska past Penn State 70-54 in a game played in Lincoln, Nebraska on Saturday night. Michael Jacobson added 10 points for the…
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