• Another historic building was slated for the wrecking ball in Charleroi. The former Columbus Hotel at the corner of McKean Avenue and Third Street was empty for a number of years and in disrepair. C...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah traded heavy fire early Sunday but backed off from sparking a widely feared all-out war, as both sides signaled their most intense exc...

PHOENIX (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his independent campaign for president Friday and endorsed Donald Trump, a late-stage shakeup of the presidential race that could give the former preside...

TODAY IN HISTORY 21 Today is Wednesday, Aug. 21, the 234th day of 2024. There are 132 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 21, 1831, Nat Turner launched a violent slave rebellion in Virgin...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. showed up too late to testify Tuesday in a court case in Pennsylvania where Democratic activists are trying to bar him from the ballot for president in the...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces have either destroyed or damaged all three of the bridges over the Seym River in western Russia, according to Russian sources, as Kyiv’s incursion into western Ru...

• Employment at the Middle Monongahela Industrial De- velopment Association Parks could soon reach 2,000. To day, the businesses that call the Association’s three parks home currently employ 1,700 wor...

NEW YORK (AP) — A scary Monday that started with a plunge abroad reminiscent of 1987 ‘s crash swept around the world and pummeled Wall Street with more steep losses, as fears worsened about a slowing ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the Secret Service resigned Tuesday in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump that unleashed an outcry about how the agency faile...

NEW YORK (AP) — Dollar General has agreed to pay a $12 million fine and improve conditions at its thousands of retail stores nationwide to make them safer for workers, the U.S. Department of Labor sai...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation in the United States cooled in June for a third straight month, a sign that the worst price spike in four decades is steadily fading and may soon usher in interest rate cut...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military urged all Palestinians to leave Gaza City and head south Wednesday, pressing ahead with a fresh offensive across the north, south and center of th...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A solid majority of Americans oppose a federal abortion ban as a rising number support access to abortions for any reason, a new poll finds, highlighting a politically perilous situa...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An appellate court has ordered the release of a Missouri woman whose murder conviction was overturned after she served 43 years in prison, but the state attorney general is sti...

NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor accused Sen. Bob Menendez in a closing argument at his bribery trial Monday of putting his power up for sale to benefit three New Jersey businessmen who bribed him with go...

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Labour Party was headed for a huge majority in a parliamentary election on Thursday, an exit poll suggested, against a gloomy backdrop of economic malaise, mounting distrust in...

• Campbell Transportation in Dunlevy did something that no local river transportation company had done in 30 years—it launched two new towboats to ply the waters of the Monongahela and other local riv...

(AP) — Millions of people in the U.S. celebrated and suffered under heat warnings as they flocked to beaches and traveled in droves to toast their nation’s birth with July 4 parades, cookouts and the ...

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press In a major reprieve for former President Donald Trump, sentencing for his hush money convictions was postponed Tuesday until at least September —...

Justice Department charges nearly 200 people in $2.7 billion health care fraud schemes crackdown WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 200 people have been charged in a sweeping nationwide crackdown on health care...