“Hands Off!” rally in Washington protests Trump administration policies

The Brownson House, the sports facility that gave countless Washington area youth their start in athletics, is coming down. Operating the crumbling 115-year-old building at 1415 Jefferson Ave. has become cost-prohibitive, said Jon Celani, executive director of the Brownson House nonprofit ...
Washington City Council approved disciplinary measures Thursday against three firefighters, including firing two of them. The motions were approved by each of the three members of council present at Thursday’s meeting, as well as Mayor JoJo Burges. Councilman Joe Pintola was not in ...
Albert Gallatin Area School District Superintendent Christopher Pegg knows what happens when students miss class. “Students who are chronically absent are always playing catchup. They are not receiving in-person classroom instruction and support, and it becomes difficult for those students ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Tommy Pham's run-scoring single in the bottom of the 11th inning lifted the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 5-4 victory over the New York Yankees on Sunday for just their second win in eight games. The Yankees scored three times in the ninth off Ryan Borucki to tie the game at 4. ...
Zion Moore couldn’t have scripted a better ending to his WPIAL basketball career. Ten years to the day that his older brother, Dwight, won a WPIAL championship with coach Joe Salvino at Monessen, Moore accomplished the same feat at Belle Vernon. The Leopards defeated North Catholic 54-49 ...
By Stephen Whyno Associated Press NEW YORK — Alex Ovechkin has broken Wayne Gretzky's record for the most goals in NHL history by scoring the 895th of his career. The Washington Capitals' captain made history Sunday against the New York Islanders by beating fellow Russian Ilya Sorokin on ...
Donald Trump campaigned as a populist, vowing to raise up “the forgotten man.” This message allowed him to win a surprising amount of support from the working class. Unfortunately, it was a con. Trump’s actions in the first two months of his new administration have demonstrated that he ...
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 ...