Local neurologist leads study on non-drug migraine treatment

Members of the first year of Connellsville Area High School graduates without a class rank are asking the district to reinstate it. Earlier this month, students posted a petition on change.org calling for a return to the previous system, which recognized a valedictorian, salutatorian and class rank. The petition had received 1,056 online signatures as of Friday afternoon. In 2023, the district board voted to eliminate ranking, with the changes taking effect for the class of 2026. Instead, the district instituted a tiered honors system, recognizing all students with grade-point averages 3.8 or above, with the top level being those with grade-point averages 4.15 or above and at ...
State police arrested a Brownsville man Wednesday in connection with the sexual assault of a 5-year-old earlier this year. Court records accuse 70-year-old Donald Allen Wiederstein of assaulting the child at a home in Fallowfield Township. Wiederstein faces felony charges of indecent assault, ...
When students at a number of Washington County elementary schools open their backpacks, they’ll find LittleMoochi food packs waiting inside. Designed to help combat food insecurity for children in the county, the packs were assembled Thursday at the CNX building in Canonsburg by about 100 ...
The Montour Trail spreads out a bit farther now with the official opening of the Muse branch. The Montour Trail Council held a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by local and statewide elected officials Thursday morning to commemorate the new 0.6 mile stretch of trail. “The railroad built a ...
Geibel Catholic opened its girls volleyball season with a 3-2 triumph at Calvary Chapel Christian on Friday in non-section play. The Lady Gators won the first set, 25-15, but lost the next two by scores of 25-22 and 25-20 before forcing a fifth set after a 25-17 victory. The visitors ...
WAYNESBURG – Just call Teagan Crouse the eraser. Waynesburg Central didn’t play a clean, perfect game in its football opener against visiting West Greene on Friday night but Crouse made sure that few of the miscues were costly with a sparkling performance in the Raiders’ 50-6 ...
Connellsville was playing a solid game at Latrobe Friday night but needed a little something extra to put it over the top. Linkon Keller added the spark that lit a late explosion to propel the Falcons to a rousing 28-13 victory in the Week Zero clash at Memorial Stadium. Keller scored ...
On a summer evening in Milwaukee, with his team mired near the bottom of the National League, Pirates' manager Bobby Bragan emerged from the dugout mid-game. Bragan headed toward the umpires. Strangely enough, he was sipping from a small drinking carton. Moments earlier, the brash Bucco ...
AccuWeather, the independent weather provider service, published an article last week showing the FEMA Risk Maps ranking every county in the United States for their susceptibility to natural disasters, including hurricanes, floods, droughts, winter storms, extreme heat and cold, high winds ...