Funding cuts, lawsuits, and fear derailed Pennsylvania’s plan to close state hospitals and invest in community mental health care
A few days after a 15-year-old boy was struck and killed by a vehicle in the city of Washington while riding a dirt bike, Natalie Ross, CEO of Healing Bridges, received a phone call. The call was from a distraught EMS worker who had responded to the April 14 accident, which happened in front ...
There have been memorable winters in Southwestern Pennsylvania, said Jack Hughes. “The Great Appalachian Snowstorm” of 1950, which dumped 27.4 inches of snow on the region over a three-day period on Thanksgiving weekend, en route to a record year of 82 inches. And the blizzard of 1993, ...
A Uniontown man was arrested after allegedly trying to sexually assault two other men who lived at his house. Austin McCurley, 41, was charged with two counts each of attempted involuntary deviant sexual intercourse and indecent exposure in an incident at his residence on Cleveland ...
Robbie Mertz was a toddler when the Pittsburgh Riverhounds were founded, but the Upper St. Clair graduate has grown up, and he fittingly scored the only goal his team would need in a 1-0 victory over Rhode Island FC on Saturday at Highmark Stadium in the USL Championship Eastern Conference ...
When arguably the greatest college wrestler, and quite possibly, the best coach at the collegiate level, is interested in you competing for him, it is tough to decline. That’s what Belle Vernon senior Elijah Brown encountered when he spoke with Penn State head coach Cael Sanderson after ...
Connellsville goalie Nick Daniels-Nimick stopped 24 shots, including several from point-blank range and on rebounds, in the Falcons’ 3-1 victory over Burrell in PIHL Division 2 play on Thursday at CFS Bank Event Center in Rostraver Township. Connellsville improved to 5-1-0-0 and sits in ...
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 ...
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 ...
