A 12-year-old boy died Saturday while swimming with friends in the Monongahela River. Divers found Rontae Lester, of Donora, on the riverbed at about 3:30 p.m., according to a report from Washington County Coroner Timothy Warco. According to Warco, one of Lester鈥檚 friends called 911 at ...
As a sixth-grade teacher at Calvary Chapel Christian School in Brownsville, Kierra Cannon would lead her history class in mock elections, teaching them about the importance of their rights as citizens and of doing things with integrity. Over the past few weeks, she鈥檚 gotten a new ...
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 ...
Every third Saturday in May, a train of horse-drawn wagons makes its way across National Pike for the National Road Festival, also known as Pike Days. The event takes place all along Route 40 in Washington, Fayette and Somerset counties. Many homes along the road hold yard sales, and ...
Joe Angelelli takes heart in a finding from a study on nonviolent protests: Once 3.5% of the population shows up consistently in protest of an issue, it flips. A Thursday forum in Carmichaels, which drew about 35 people to hear about the potential impacts of the Trump administration鈥檚 ...
At 4:07 p.m., May 19, 1928, the whistle blew at Mather Mine, alerting people of an emergency. The explosion that caused it, and the loss of life that followed over the coming days, continues to be remembered. Out of 211 miners underground during the explosion, 195 were killed. It still ...
