By Chanin Rotz-Mountz STAFF WRITER
Nearly $500,000 in the red, the McConnellsburg Volunteer Fire Co. has launched its newest fundraiser to reduce the deficit accrued during the recent construction of a larger and more modernized equipment building.
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By Chanin Rotz-Mountz STAFF WRITER
Organizers of the Mc- Connellsburg Volunteer Fire Co.'s first "Dream Weekend" are confident the event scheduled for late July will serve multiple purposes but will first and foremost give area youths a small taste of the daily life of a firefighter More...
Stephanie Walker, McConnellsburg, attained the dean's list for the 2009 spring semester at Kutztown University. More...
Just 20 years after the last eaglets were brought into Pennsylvania from Canada, bald eagles have recorded remarkable nesting successes here, according to Pennsylvania Game Commission officials. More...
PENNDEL, Pa. (AP) - A toddler who was accidentally left in a hot minivan outside his suburban Philadelphia day care center has died of hyperthermia. More...
By Joe Mandak ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. (AP) - Television pitchman Billy Mays, whose high-energy hawking turned products like OxiClean from infomercial curiosities into mainstream successes, was remembered as a pop culture icon at his funeral Friday near Pittsburgh. More...
By Patrick Burns
KINZERS, Pa. (AP) - Spurned by his 40th consecutive job interviewer, Daniel Seddiqui last year may have heard the ghost of Jack Kerouac calling. More...
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the trial of a central Pennsylvania funeral director accused of beating, choking and drowning his wife a year ago. More...
By Joann Loviglio ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A group that for years has been trying to build a Revolutionary War museum within the boundaries of Valley Forge National Historical Park is moving the multimillion-dollar project to downtown Philadelphia. More...
VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) - The dean of Villanova University's law school has abruptly resigned. A statement from the university says Mark Sargent submitted his resignation on Monday, citing personal and medical reasons. More...
ERIE, Pa. (AP) - Officials in western Pennsylvania say an autopsy is planned on the body of a woman who died in a fire in her Erie home. Erie County Deputy Coroner Korac Timon has identified the victim as 50-year-old Tina Basile. More...
Members of the first Wii Bowling League at Warfordsburg Senior Center recently attended their first Wii bowling banquet at Kelly's Restaurant in Everett. More...
UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) - State police in Uniontown say someone stole two female puppies from a Fayette County shelter. The mixed-breed pit bulls were taken sometime over the weekend at the Steve Courson Humane Society of Fayette County. More...
BRYN MAWR, Pa. (AP) - A former publisher of Philadelphia's Bulletin newspaper who championed a free press has died. Robert E. Lee Taylor Jr. was 96. He died of undisclosed causes Thursday at his home in suburban Bryn Mawr. More...
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