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‘Women in Red’: PennWest prof helps close gender gap in Wikipedia entries

Wikipedia statistics reveal that there are significantly more entries about males than females in the online encyclopedia. Of the 2,009,049 biographies that appeared June 24 on the free site that is maintained by a community of volunteers, only 398,893 were about women, or slightly less than ...

Discarded fireworks ignite fire in South Strabane

Discarded fireworks resulted in a house fire in South Strabane Township Friday night. Jordan Cramer, South Strabane fire chief, said firefighters were dispatched to the Bradford Run development before 10:30 p.m. Friday. Township police already were in the area responding to complaints about ...

One person flown from Washington house fire

One person was flown to a hospital after a fire in the city of Washington Saturday evening. Fire Chief Chris Richer said the call came in at 6:42 p.m. for a fire at a residence at 1200 Fayette St. “Our crews immediately made access to the residence,” Richer said. “We received ...

Bowman wraps up a spot in the playoffs with victory on rainy street course

CHICAGO — Alex Bowman secured a spot in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs Sunday when he held on for the victory on a rainy street course in downtown Chicago. It was Bowman's first victory since Las Vegas in March 2022 and No. 8 for his career. He is the 12th Cup Series driver to win this ...

Reed, Czech power Wild Things back into first place

To say it wasn’t a pitcher’s kind of evening at Wild Things Park was like saying the occupants of the local senior citizens center aren’t Metallica’s kind of audience. It had been about three weeks since the Wild Things found themselves in a slugfest, where the hits, runs and pitching ...