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Hoagie sale Claysville Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary is selling Italian hoagies for $8 each. Order deadline is Tuesday, Nov. 3. Call Sandy at 724-663-4387 to order. Orders will be available for pickup between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the fire hall, 154 Main St., Claysville. Singles club The Association of University People welcomes singles 55+ who are four-year college graduates to join them for various activities and meet new friends. Events include happy hour, brunches, lunches, dinners, meet-ups at live music venues, local wineries and walking trails, our unique book group and day trips. Interested guests can attend three activities before deciding to join. ...

Rep. O’Neal faces MacTaggart in 48th state House race

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the last in a series of stories featuring key races in the upcoming Nov. 3 election. Republican state Rep. Tim O’Neal of South Strabane, who has served in the state House since first winning a special election in May 2018, is facing a challenge in the Nov. 3 general ...

WVU expert sheds light on why people love horror movies

Horror movies are synonymous with the Halloween season just like candy and pumpkins. But why are audiences drawn to entertainment designed to frighten them? According to Elizabeth Cohen, a professor of communications at the WVU Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, the answer is pretty ...

DCED secretary visits Mon Valley economic development event

Department of Community & Economic Development Secretary Rick Siger delivered the keynote address during the Fourth Annual Mid-Mon Valley Economic Symposium, promoting a number of development initiatives launched by the Shapiro administration. More than 200 local business leaders and ...

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Sports

Prexies, Lions get No. 1 seeds for playoffs

Thirteen local high school football teams will be included when the WPIAL playoffs begin next weekend. Ten of those teams knew they were in before the pairings were released Saturday afternoon. The other three – Trinity, Chartiers-Houston and Monessen – simply went wild. The Hillers, Bucs ...

Five Things we learned in Week 10

Each Monday we’ll look back at the highlights of the week that was in local high school football. This week we learned who is No. 1 in the WPIAL playoff brackets, wild cards aplenty for local teams, Ringgold was left out, McGuffey completed its turnaround and saw a wild ending for Belle ...

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Steelers take AFC North lead, extend streak over Cleveland to 23 straight

PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Steelers spent all week hearing the chatter coming from Cleveland, then spent all Sunday emphatically and repeatedly putting their longtime rivals in their place. Maybe better days are coming for Deshaun Watson, Jared Verse and company. They're just not here ...

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Opinion

OP-ED: The time to get AI right is now

As recently as early summer, artificial intelligence, or AI, was far from the center of public concern or worry. Now, it's at center stage, though to many it remains a mystery. During a recent class reunion, a friend confided that AI was a head-scratcher. "I don't know anything about it," he ...

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Deaths of elderly Chartiers Township couple remain a mystery 36 years later

The bodies of an elderly Chartiers Township couple were found in a pool of blood in their basement in 1990, causing an intense police investigation and a nationwide search for their killers. Thirty-six years have passed and there are still no leads, no arrest, no motive. At noon on Nov. 7, ...

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