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California man pleads guilty in fatal Greene crash

A California Borough man pleaded guilty Tuesday to homicide by vehicle after killing another driver while speeding through the borough of Jefferson at more than 100 mph. Arin Dyne, 31, had been traveling on Route 188 through Jefferson on July 16, 2024, when his pickup truck collided with a ...

Industry Public House eyes Strabane Square for new location

South Strabane Township supervisors will hold a public hearing next week for a liquor license transfer to the address of the former TGI Fridays in Strabane Square. Township manager Jeff Ziegler confirmed that Industry Public House is planning to open a new location at 315 Washington Road. The ...

Canonsburg starts search for manager

Canonsburg Council has formed a committee to start the process of finding a new borough manager. The committee composed of council President Rich Russo and council members Eric Miller and Diane Richey will work to find a replacement for Billie Bilko, who died July 1. Bilko had been in the ...

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Walters’ hit gives Atlantic win in FL All-Star Game

TROY, N.Y. – Ian Walters hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the bottom of the seventh inning, giving the Atlantic Conference a 5-4 victory over the Midwest in the Frontier League All-Star Game on Wednesday at Joseph L. Bruno Stadium, home of the Tri-City Valleycats. The hit by Walters, who was ...

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NL wins All-Star Game’s first tiebreaking swing-off

ATLANTA (AP) — Kyle Schwarber went 3 for 3 in the first All-Star Game home run swing-off to put the National League ahead 4-3 following a 6-6 tie in which the American League rallied from a six-run deficit on Tuesday night. In baseball's equivalent of soccer's penalty-kicks shootout, the ...

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Burke’s brigade of 5 among 15 entries for The Adios

By John Sacco For the Observer-Reporter newsroom@observer-reporter.com While Louprint is not available for The Adios, five of his stablemates will push to give The Burke Stable a legitimate shot at winning the 59th version of the 3-year-old harness racing showcase. Fifteen horses are ...

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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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