Folks growing up in Butler – really, any Western Pennsylvania city or town – likely have an amusement park memory they’ll never forget. Careening down the final drop on t...
This year marks 70 years since the first polio vaccine was declared safe and effective, and more than 45 years since the disease was wiped out in the United States. A lar...
“You old Irishman, you, you did it!”
Those were the words of legendary Pittsburgh Pirates radio announcer Bob Prince as he embraced manager Danny Murtaugh in the clubhous...
Despite what they said at the Dew Drop Inn, Nick Perry always maintained he’d had nothing to do with what would become known as the Triple Six Fix.
Perry, a longtime Pitt...
An error in judgment during what should have been a routine flight in April 1991 took the lives of seven, including a senator at the height of his political career.
Sen. ...
It's quite literally the stuff of nightmares — you are trapped underground, in the dark, in the cold, and water is rising all around you.
For the nine men who found thems...
It took a little horse trading to get casinos into Pennsylvania.
The original 2004 law that created casinos in the state was The Race Horse Development And Gaming Act.
Ga...
While the unofficial motto of United States Postal Service is “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their a...
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated for his first term as U.S. president in March 1933, the nation was in shambles.
A little more than three years earlier, in Octo...
