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Pittsburgh area hospitals named among region's best

UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside Hospital has been named the second-best hospital in Pennsylvania in U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings. The hospital also was named the best in the Pittsburgh metropolitan region, and earned national rankings in 10 areas, including cancer, psychiatry, and rheumatology treatment. This year's 37th edition of Best Hospitals, released Tuesday, evaluated nearly 4,500 medical centers across 14 adult specialties and 23 procedures and conditions and recognized top-performing hospitals across the United States based on patient outcomes, including survival rates, preventable complications, and patient experience. Five other hospitals in the Pittsburgh ...

Uniontown man charged with arson, aggravated assault

A Uniontown man is accused of intentionally setting a fire at the home of his ex-girlfriend Wednesday morning. Javon Brown, 34, was allegedly seen walking up the back steps to the kitchen window at 150 Coffee St., immediately before a fire broke out around 3 a.m., according to the criminal ...

Italian Heritage Festival returns to Uniontown

This weekend, Uniontown’s Main Street will be filled with the sights, sounds and tastes of Italy. The Italian Heritage Festival will run from noon to 10 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday. This year’s event is the fourth since it was revived by original organizers, the Uniontown ...

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Walk on the Wild Side

Trails at Fort Necessity National Battlefield in Farmington offer a convenient and appealing place for exercise. The battlefield’s paths traverse meadows and woods just as George Washington’s little army did in his 1754 campaign that kindled the French and Indian War. For a 3-mile ...

Black rock and brown sandstone

Isn’t it amazing that Appalachian Black Lung rates are the highest in nearly 50 years as coal miners protections stall while the Black Lung Trust Fund owes $3 billion to the US Treasury because of company bankruptcies and being under insured; all of this while the administration in June ...

Outdoors Calendar

(To request to have an item added to the Outdoors Calendar or to send a digital image of your harvested bear, deer or turkey photo for possible publication please email hssports@heraldstandard.com.) HUNTER-TRAPPER INDEPENDENT STUDY COURSE NOTE: Must be 11 years old to register. Students must ...

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OP-ED: Abraham Lincoln: ‘From these honored dead’

The Civil War brought tremendous suffering. The death of Robert J. Brownfield is illustrative. Cpl. Brownfield of Fayette County was shot in the arm near Spotsylvania Courthouse in Virginia. Forgotten or simply overlooked, he went unattended for a full day. Taken first to Fredericksburg, ...

Outdoors

Walk on the Wild Side

Trails at Fort Necessity National Battlefield in Farmington offer a convenient and appealing place for exercise. The battlefield’s paths traverse meadows and woods just as George Washington’s little army did in his 1754 campaign that kindled the French and Indian War. For a 3-mile ...

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