Twenty residents apply for open Fayette County commissioner seat

Mollie Byrne recalls spending summers with her family at a camp on the Juniata River in Bedford County, in south central Pennsylvania. In the evenings, visitors gathered near an old farmhouse to watch as thousands of bats emerged and flew into the night sky, providing a spectacular aerial ...
A Normalville man allegedly tried to rob the Honey Bear Gas in Bullskin Township station late Thursday using an Allen wrench he tried to pass off as a gun, police said. State police contend that around 11 p.m., Michael Nickelson, 37, pointed a cylindrical object at gas station employee Derrick ...
Editor's note: This story was updated to reflect that Lisa Nicholson is no longer an assistant to the district attorney Twenty people expressed interest in taking a seat at the commissioner's table, among them are former commissioners, current supervisors, a former mayor, veterans, educators ...
SLIPPERY ROCK — One was expected … the other … not so much, but California’s Lee Qualk and Mount Pleasant’s Jarett Garn will take the gold. Qualk entered Wednesday’s WPIAL Individual Track & Field Championships at Slippery Rock University as the top seed and defending ...
Geibel Catholic saved its best performance for its last. The Gators’ baseball team won their final game of the season on Monday in a 2-1 victory over Hillel Academy in non-section play at Andrew T. Soberdash Memorial Athletic Field on the campus of Geibel Catholic Junior-Senior High ...
PITTSBURGH — Tessa Dellarose has had quite a week. The Brownsville Area High School graduate returned home to Grindstone on May 9 after finishing up her junior year at the University of North Carolina, and starting Monday, she began her tour promoting the Pittsburgh Riveters SC. Dellarose ...
On a summer evening in Milwaukee, with his team mired near the bottom of the National League, Pirates' manager Bobby Bragan emerged from the dugout mid-game. Bragan headed toward the umpires. Strangely enough, he was sipping from a small drinking carton. Moments earlier, the brash Bucco ...
(To request to have an item added to the Outdoors Calendar or to send a digital image of your harvested bear, deer or turkey photo for possible publication please email hssports@heraldstandard.com.) NEW TRAIL AT LAUREL HILL STATE PARK The Scenic View Trail at Laurel Hill State Park ...