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Veterans Day events scheduled across the region

Veterans Day is Tuesday and veterans will be honored and remembered throughout the region this weekend and next week through parades, ceremonies and other events. One location where there will conspicuously be no Veterans Day ceremony – at least not an official one – is the National ...

Development at Greene data center campus gets preliminary OK

The Greene County Planning Commission gave preliminary approval for land development for a plant to power a proposed data center at the former site of the Robena Mine in Monongahela Township. All members of the nine-person commission, except one who abstained, voted in favor of the proposal, ...

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Geneva passing game will test W&J

By John Sacco For the Observer-Reporter newsroom@observer-reporter.com Geneva College football coach Geno DeMarco seems to have saved his best for last. Washington & Jefferson, which needs a victory to clinch a second consecutive Presidents’ Athletic Conference championship ...

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Ex-Steelers receiver Antonio Brown arrested on attempted murder charge

By Curt Anderson Associated Press Former NFL star Antonio Brown has been arrested on an attempted murder charge stemming from a shooting after a celebrity boxing event in Miami, police confirmed Thursday. Brown, 37, was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals in Dubai, said Miami police ...

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Rooney Jr. a semifinalist for HOF Class of 2026

By Josh Dubow AP Pro Football Writer Six-time Super Bowl-winning owner Robert Kraft and Bud Adams, who founded the Houston Oilers and was a key part of the formation of the AFL, are among the nine contributors who advanced to the semifinal stage for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class of ...

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OP-ED: Random thoughts about man’s stupidity

I am only 18 months away from turning 80, and truthfully, the way things are going, if seven more of my classmates pass away, I could end up being the valedictorian of my high school class. One thing I’ve consistently observed in life is the ongoing display of consistency that humankind ...

Living

Author to discuss Mount Washington tunnel disaster

It was Christmas Eve 1917, and the Pittsburgh Railways trolley that bore the number 4236 was overloaded with passengers heading to work or shop or meet up with friends and family as the day wound down. At 3:18 p.m., it roared out of the Mount Washington Tunnel, traveling much, much faster ...

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