Strong thunderstorms slammed Southwestern Pennsylvania over the weekend, disrupting Fourth of July celebrations, bringing heavy rain and flooding, and prompting flood watches and warnings. A flood watch issued by the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh was in effect in Washington, Greene ...

Just 536 days before the United States celebrated its 200th anniversary on July 4, 1976, President Gerald Ford stood in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives and said something Americans were not accustomed to hearing from their commander-in-chief. “I must say to you that the ...