The Franklin Fine Arts Council has announced many of the events to be held on the annual “Franklin on Ice” day, scheduled this year for Saturday, February 8. Ice carving will begin at 10:00 AM, and the event’s Speed Carving Competition is scheduled to start at 3:00 PM. The day will also include a chili…
Powerball Lottery officials, who say that no one hit the jackpot in their game’s drawing on Wednesday night, have estimated the annuity value of Saturday night’s jackpot at $107 million. The one-time cash value of the prize is currently estimated at $142.5 million. The annuity value of Wednesday’s jackpot would have been valued at more…
Lamar Patterson scored 10 points in overtime on Wednesday night, lifting Pitt (19-4; 7-2 ACC) to a 59-55 Atlantic Coast Conference victory at Miami. Patterson finished with 25 points, leading all scorers, while teammate Cameron Wright scored 12 and Talib Zanna added 10. Rion Brown paced Miami (11-11; 2-7) with 21 points. Pitt will host…
Five different Pittsburgh players scored on Buffalo ice on Wednesday night, and the Penguins reached the 40-victory mark in a season for the earliest time ever – in 57 games – in a 5-1 victory over the Sabres. Pittsburgh’s previous quickest road to 40 wins covered 65 games in 1995-96. Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, James Neal, Brian…
Statistics for the Oil Region for the month of December show some of the lowest unemployment numbers in the area in more than five years. Labor analysts attribute the improvement, even though it may be temporary, to holiday hires, a boom in new jobs in the health industry and no major layoff announcements during the month. Venango…
A Franklin man has been charged after a teenage girl claimed he twice sexually assaulted her back in 2004 when she was four years old. 23 year-old Mark DeLuca was arraigned on charges of indecent assault, indecent exposure and the corruption of a minor. He was lodged in the Venango County Jail with bail set…
State Police officials say a Kentucky man wanted on a warrant in New York City was arrested at a traffic stop near Clintonville. Troopers at the Franklin PSP station say 38 year-old Julius Doe, from Louisville, was taken into custody after his vehicle was stopped on the westbound lanes of Interstate 80 in Clinton Township…
Three weeks of hearings in both the House and the state Senate on Governor Tom Corbett’s proposed 2014-2015 state budget will begin Monday. On Tuesday, Corbett unveiled a $29.4 billion spending plan which reflects a spending increase of nearly one billion dollars, or about 3.7 percent. It’s the largest proposed spending increase since Corbett took…
The National Weather Service tells KQW that the current Winter Storm Warning remains in effect until 7:00 PM Wednesday evening. Those of us in the Oil Region who experienced anywhere from three to five inches of snow overnight were greeted Wednesday morning by a mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain. The precipitation resulted in…
After delivering his proposed Pennsylvania fiscal year budget on Tuesday, Governor Tom Corbett applauded the passage by the U.S. Senate of the federal Farm Bill. Corbett hailed Congressman Glenn Thompson’s efforts to have the legislation passed, and urged President Obama to sign the bill as soon as possible to help “ensure our farmers remain competitive.”…
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