The first Memorial Day was commemorated on May 30, 1868, just a little more than three years after the end of the Civil War. The scars left by the war still ran deep – between the Union and the Confederate states, 620,000 combatants lost their lives. In the early 1860s, that was a full 2% ...
Cheers: Traffic was snarled for a little while in downtown Carnegie Monday, but it wasn’t a typical slowdown caused by an accident or construction. Instead, it was because about 20 coach buses carrying veterans to Washington, D.C., made a stop in the Allegheny County community so they could ...
Winding its way through Congress is legislation that would require the U.S. Postal Service to track crashes of vehicles carrying mail.
The legislation, which carries the name Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act, and which passed the House on May 6, also would punish USPS contractors that fail to ...