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FirstEnergy faces labor charges over closed plants

The National Labor Relations Board has charged FirstEnergy Corp. with unfair labor practices related to the closing of two coal-fired power plants in southwestern Pennsylvania in October — the HatfieldĢƵ Ferry in Greene County and Mitchell in Washington County.The board brought the charges ...

PS Fayette splits doubleheader

Penn State Mont Alto 6, Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus 0; Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus 3, Penn State Mont Alto 2 – The Lady Roaring Lions earned a PSUAC split by winning the nightcap Monday afternoon at home.Penn State Fayette (2-3, 13-7) scored single runs in the bottom of ...

Winter Olympics may have ended just in time

Maybe they got the Winter Olympics in just in time.What would President Obama have done if Russian Quasi-czar Vladimir Putin had decided to try out his USSR-lite before the Olympics in Sochi? Would he have had any choice but to boycott the games?Cynical people around the world are a little ...

Township residents question supervisors about landfill

GERMAN TWP. — A Route 21 landfill remains a problem for some township residents.Resident Bob Myers asked supervisors if residents could be could hire a chemist to independently interpret a state report about air samples taken from the Advanced Disposal landfill.Solicitor Doug Sepic said that ...

NFL out of bounds with penalty for offensive language

I’ve spent the last several days trying to get myself to care about what NFL players say to each other on the field during games and I’m just not there yet. There is a movement afoot in the NFL to penalize players 15 yards for using offensive language, especially the “N” word.Or will ...

Disenfranchising voters: It’s all about the win

CALIFORNIA — The right to vote is a fundamental element of democracy in the United States, with constitutional amendments safeguarding that right, yet the practice of disenfranchising certain elements of society continues.“The 15th Amendment and the 19th Amendment should have settled ...