HIT: For the past three years, Bridge to Home Animal Rescue in Eighty Four has rescued dozens of dogs on New Year’s Eve. This year, the organization brought 38 dogs to be fostered here from an abandoned shelter in Kentucky. A team of volunteers left Washington at 6:30 a.m. to meet the ...
Hits and Misses HIT: Most of the Salvation Army red kettles that people toss money into during the holiday season are filled with everyday coins or maybe $1 or $5 bills. But on Christmas Eve, someone dropped a rare gold coin worth $2,700 into the red kettle at the Giant Eagle store outside ...
MISS: In the same way that it doesn’t hurt to look before you leap or check the depth of the water before you jump in a lake, it also doesn’t hurt to check the provenance of information or images you post to social media. That’s a lesson that state Sen. Doug Mastriano learned the hard ...
MISS: Before the identity of Luigi Mangione was known to the wider world, the suspected killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was being lauded in some quarters as a kind of modern-day Robin Hood, a guy who was mad as hell at the country’s health care system and was not going to ...
MISS: The holidays are a time of giving, and that frequently includes giving to charities and other worthy organizations. The problem, though, is that there are unscrupulous people out there who are trying to take advantage of the season’s spirit of generosity to fraudulently enrich ...
MISS: The arrival of Thanksgiving on Thursday marked the start of the holiday season, and it also marked an all-too-likely surge in cases of COVID-19 and the flu across the country. While nowhere near as widespread or severe as it was in 2020 and 2021, COVID-19 can still take lives and send ...
