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Three hurt in truck-house crash

Three people were injured when a truck drove into a house in Hanover Township Saturday morning. The crash was reported about 10:15 a.m. on the 1100 block of Steubenville Pike, according to Washington County 911 dispatch. Everyone was able to successfully escape the vehicle and house. Two ...

Brownsville man reinstated as attorney

With the testimony of the current and former district attorneys of Fayette County, a retired judge and several members of the county’s legal community, a Brownsville man will once again be a practicing lawyer. The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued an order ...

Mini-golf at Mingo gets a mulligan

Mini-golf at Mingo Creek is getting a mulligan. Three months after plans to build a miniature golf course at the county park in Nottingham Township were shanked over concerns about charging fees to visitors, the concept is getting another shot as county officials are reviving plans to build ...

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Defense wins championships

The cliché, “defense wins championships,” is one of the more overused phrases in sports, and there is no scientific evidence to prove a formidable defense leads to titles, but if validity is needed beyond a hypothesis, one can look to the 2025 version of the Pittsburgh Riverhounds ...

Herald-Standard All-Area Girls Volleyball Team

As Skyler Gates prepares to graduate early from Brownsville Area High School and enroll at the University of Virginia to continue her academic and volleyball careers, an interesting nugget has arisen regarding the soon-to-be Cavalier. “When I began playing sports, I didn’t even want to ...

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Falcons take over first place in PIHL’s Gold Division

Connellsville scored two goals in the two minutes and 31 seconds, and never looked back in earning an 8-1 victory over Morgantown on Thursday night in a PIHL D2 contest at Hope Gas Ice Pavilion in Morgantown. The Falcons improved to 6-2-0-0 with 18 points after eight games. Connellsville ...

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OP-ED: A fact-based look at America’s violence problem

Every time a high-profile shooting makes headlines, America relives the same cycle: shock, outrage, and the inevitable chorus of demands to ban “assault weapons,” defund the police, blame political opponents, and spend more federal money in cities. But these slogans conceal more than they ...

Outdoors

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Bear aware

Outdoor excitement can arise as a surprise. Last week, I enjoyed an experience I’d wanted to undertake for a long time. I took a course at Touchstone Center for Crafts in the mountains near Farmington. The course was in botanical illustration, a blend of art and science in which ...

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