HIT: Austin Murphy, the former congressman and state legislator, died last weekend at the age of 96, and as a remembrance that appeared in the Observer-Reporter and Herald-Standard noted, his time in the public eye was noteworthy for both accomplishment and controversy. By the time Murphy, a ...
MISS: Washington Crown Center is one of a legion of shopping centers that have experienced difficult times in recent years, with the COVID-19 pandemic playing a part, along with anchor stores like Bon-Ton and Sears vanishing off the landscape and changes in consumer habits brought by online ...
Hits and Misses Miss: Greene County residents have plenty of reason to feel dismayed at Iron Senergy, the owners of the Cumberland Mine. Workers were sent home on March 19, and the company reportedly notified the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) of their intentions to ...
Let’s say you’re house hunting, and you find a property that seems to check off all the boxes. Enough space, the roof is solid and so are the heating and cooling systems. And the price is reasonable. There’s one catch, though. The house across the street has long been abandoned. Its ...
MISS: The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore is, as that city’s mayor called it, “an unspeakable tragedy,” particularly for the families of the six workers who were on the bridge when a cargo ship smashed into it early Tuesday morning and are now presumed dead. ...
In May, a press release from the office of U.S. Sen. John Fetterman landed in the email inboxes of journalists around Pennsylvania. It was headlined this way: “Fetterman on New Castle Train Derailment: Same S–t, Different Day.” The train that derailed in New Castle was a Norfolk ...
