07/18/11 One year after Regional School District 17 , which serves the towns of Haddam and Killingworth, Conn. chose to outsource its school bus service to Student Transportation of America , the school district has achieved a budget surplus that allows it to assign savings in operational expenses and $277,530 from the sale of its bus fleet to reduce town tax assessments and school budget costs.
07/18/11 The Reading Hospital and Medical Center has made several personnel announcements.
07/17/11 Waldorf, MD-Southern Maryland shortstop Yunesky Sanchez was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday night and assigned to their double-A affiliate in Altoona, PA (Eastern League).
07/17/11 ERIE, Pa. - With the Altoona Curve leading in the series two-games-to-one, looking for their first series win since mid-June, the Erie SeaWolves score nine runs on 13 hits to split the series at two games each in a 9-3 victory on Sunday afternoon at Jerry Uht Park.
07/17/11 HARRISBURG, PA - The Akron Aeros lost the finale with the Harrisburg Senators 9-7 Sunday at Metro Bank Park splitting the four-game series.
07/11/11 PureBlack Racing's Scott Lyttle has won cycling's Tour de Toona in Pennsylvania, securing New Zealand's first international professional road cycling team its first tour victory.
07/11/11 WPXI-TV is bidding farewell again to chief meteorologist Julie Bologna. Bologna, who has appeared on Channel 11 News at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. as well as the station's 10 p.m. newscast on Fox 53, is leaving Wednesday.
07/11/11 Pitt County's four Sheetz convenience stores likely will have company in the coming years.
07/11/11 When Joseph Szalanski's father hopped on a train passing through East Vandergrift on July 31, 1932, he intended to do more than ride the rails.
07/11/11 Clairton volunteer firefighter Jayson Hoffman knew he had little chance against boxer Jose Loera. But he still stepped through the ropes and into the ring at the Monroeville Convention Center along Mall Boulevard on Sunday night for one reason.
07/10/11 Christchurch cyclist Dan Barry handed his PureBlack Racing team their third stage win in succession by claiming stage three of the Tour de Toona in Pennsylvania yesterday.Barry claimed his first stage win of the season to top...
07/09/11 n the 10 years of its existence, the Blair County Convention Center has hosted seminars, wedding receptions and even Holstein cows.
07/09/11 Staff and wire reports SALISBURY — The Sheetz gasoline and convenience store going up at the corner of Old Concord Road and Jake Alexander Boulevard is tentatively scheduled to open for business in mid-September, company officials said Fri ...
07/07/11 Jacobe Keough narrowed Francisco Manceboand#39;s lead in the USA Cycling National Racing Calendar menand#39;s standings with his third-place finish in the Manhattan Beach Grand Prix, which, along with the Glencoe Grand Prix presented by ATandamp;T, highlighted the mid-point of the NRC over the weekend. The inaugural USA Cycling National Time Trial Calendar also continued with the time trial ...
07/06/11 When former UNLV star and NBA veteran Armon Gilliam came out of retirement in 2005 to become player-coach of the ABA's now-defunct Pittsburgh Xplosion at age 41, he certainly didn't do it for the lucrative paycheck. "If I wanted to make money, I'd go overseas," Gilliam told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at the time. "I do this for the love of the game." It's tragic but fitting then that Gilliam ...
07/06/11 PITTSBURGH, July 6 (UPI) -- Armen Gilliam, who starred at UNLV before a standout, 13-year career in the NBA, died of a heart attack while playing basketball, a coroner said. He was 47.
07/06/11 When former UNLV star and NBA veteran Armen Gilliam came out of retirement in 2005 to become player-coach of the ABA's now-defunct Pittsburgh Xplosion at age 41, he certainly didn't do it for the lucrative paycheck. "If I wanted to make money, I'd go overseas," Gilliam told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at the time. "I do this for the love of the game." It's tragic but fitting then that Gilliam ...
07/06/11 CURVE, Pa. - Phil Irwin (3-1) tossed 6.2 innings while Brock Holt went 2-for-4 with one RBI and two runs scored to help Altoona to a, 4-1, win over the Akron Aeros on Wednesday night at Blair County Ballpark.
07/06/11 The Lake County Captains and Akron Aeros also lose, but the Kinston Indians defeat Lynchburg.
07/06/11 Sheetz's expansion plans for North Carolina include opening a large distribution facility by 2014 to serve its increasing collection of convenience stores. | 
