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“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...
December 10, 2024 America 250
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...
October 08, 2024 America 250
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. ...
September 10, 2024 America 250
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...
August 13, 2024 America 250
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...
July 08, 2024 America 250
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...
June 11, 2024 America 250
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...
May 14, 2024 America 250
The first oil well in the world was dug in northwestern Pennsylvania in 1859. Less than 20 years later, the boom would make Butler County a world leader in oil producti...
April 09, 2024 America 250
It's an iconic scene in many World War II movies and TV shows: A group of G.I.s on the march encounter a group of children and offer them chocolate. It's meant to show th...
February 13, 2024 America 250
County veterans fondly remember events
January 09, 2024 America 250
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