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Jumping into her 90s

What started out as a joke turned into a party in the sky for Nancy Merckle. And the Canonsburg woman was still feeling the thrill days after she marked her 90th birthday by skydiving. “It was fabulous,” she said of the tandem jump. “It was scary in the beginning, but once I got out of ...

Redding up for rebellion

Preparations were in full swing Thursday afternoon getting the Bradford House museum ready for this weekend’s Whiskey Rebellion Festival in Washington. The festival begins tonight with various events at the Main Street Pavilion, Bradford House and elsewhere in the downtown business district, ...

Pennsylvania Emergency Management warns of 911 outages

The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency issued an alert to cellphones across the state that 911 centers may be experiencing intermittent outages, though local dispatch centers reported not having any issues. Supervisors at the 911 centers in Washington, Greene and Fayette Counties all ...

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Lake Erie shuts out Wild Things, again

Many leagues throughout minor league baseball use a split-season format. That’s when teams play to the all-star break and each division leader at that point qualifies for the postseason. Every team’s record then resets to 0-0 and the club in each division that finishes with the best record ...

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Skenes to start 2nd straight All-Star Game

ATLANTA (AP) — Pittsburgh's Paul Skenes will start his second straight All-Star Game for the National League and Detroit's Tarik Skubal will open for the American League on Tuesday night at Truist Park. Major League Baseball made the announcement Saturday night. Skenes will become the ...

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Buxton hits for the cycle as Twins rout Pirates

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — All-Star center fielder Byron Buxton hit for the cycle on his bobblehead day, completing it with a solo home run in the seventh inning, and the Minnesota Twins routed the Pittsburgh Pirates 12-4 on Saturday. Buxton hit a single in the first inning, a triple in the second ...

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OP-ED: Eighteen holes of fun … or not

They built a golf course all around my grandparents' house. The 18th fairway nearly cut through their backyard, and until we put wire grates over the windows, flying glass and golf balls were a common threat. Dad attempted to play golf a few times. As a little kid, he had fallen off a horse. ...

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New study links chemicals in plastics to heart disease deaths

A new study is linking chemicals commonly found in plastics with deaths from heart disease around the world. The research, published in the journal eBioMedicine this spring, linked more than 350,000 deaths worldwide to phthalate exposure. Phthalates (pronounced tha-lates) are a set of ...

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