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Fun in the sun

Logan Dzanaj, 2, of Peters Township, enjoys the unseasonably warm weather at Peterswood Park Wednesday afternoon, with the temperature hitting the high 70s.

Driver suffers life-threatening injuries in horse racing accident at Meadows

A driver in a harness race at the Hollywood Casino at the Meadows horse track suffered life-threatening injuries Wednesday afternoon when he was thrown from his sulky and struck his head on the track. Hunter Myers was in the 11th race with Always B Royalty about 4:30 p.m. when another horse in ...

Chartiers man pleads guilty to role in 2023 drug overdose death

A Chartiers Township man who helped to facilitate the sale of a deadly batch of fentanyl-laced cocaine to another man in 2023 pleaded guilty Tuesday and was sentenced to house arrest due to his cooperation with prosecutors throughout the investigation. John Stephen Backner, 58, pleaded guilty ...

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Rodgers meets with Steelers and leaves without signing

By Will Graves AP Sports Writer Aaron Rodgers might still want to play football. He might even do it in Pittsburgh. The four-time NFL MVP met with the Steelers on Friday, a person with knowledge of the visit told The Associated Press. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity ...

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Robert Morris throws scare into 2nd-seeded Alabama

By Will Graves AP National Writer CLEVELAND — All-America guard Mark Sears scored 19 of his 22 points in the second half and second-seeded Alabama pulled away late to escape 15th-seeded Robert Morris 90-81 on Friday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The Colonials gave the ...

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OP-ED: Talking censorship and budget-slashing

It's painful, with all the farce and fright coming out of the Trump administration, to focus attention on two examples of utter political ineptitude by Democrats. The first example comes from Maine, where Democrats in the lower house of that state's legislature stripped a Republican ...

Living

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Inaugural Seader Leadership scholarships awarded

The inaugural Seader Leadership Scholarships were awarded at the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science Region 8 meeting on Feb. 8 at Pennsylvania Western University California. PJAS is a statewide organization of junior and senior high school students designed to stimulate and promote ...

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