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Southwestern Pennsylvania does not come close to rivaling regions like northern Virginia or the corridor between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., for its number of federal employees, but the large-scale layoffs of the federal workforce that have been initiated by the White House and the ...

Deadline gets REAL

With the federal enforcement deadline just a few months away, the state Department of Transportation is holding a series of events across the state, including in Washington, to help residents obtain REAL IDs. Starting May 7, residents 18 and older must show a REAL ID, a passport or other ...

A Clarion County-based company has received the go-ahead to construct an underground limestone mine in Deemston. The state Department of Environmental Protection on Jan. 21 approved a permit for Neiswonger Construction to build the 336-acre mine underneath the Maggie Lynn Limestone Quarry ...

North Dakota WWII Veteran Turns 108

MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA — Ray Curtis was born on Feb. 11, 1917, about two months before the United States entered World War I and a year before what became known as the Spanish Flu ravaged the nation. Automobiles had not yet become common in the states, and air travel was in its infancy. The ...

Before opening a celebrated destination dining location, Joe Pappalardo advised family and friends that providing “quality service, food and atmosphere” was integral to being successful. “Dad would say that all the time,” his daughter, Patty, said with a robust chuckle. She heard ...

A McKeesport man was convicted of third-degree murder Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a Tennessee teen following a fight at the Jollick Manor housing complex in Washington nearly three years ago. Jamil Marquise Carr, 25, was found guilty of the lesser murder charge in the shooting that ...