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Brewers team up on beer to help military families
Craft breweries from around the country are toasting the troops with a beer aged with a unique ingredient that symbolizes America's pastime — baseball bats. Nine different brewers collaborated to create Homefront IPA, all using the same recipe, complete with orange peel and unfinished maple Louisville Sluggers. Toward the end ...
6 Wyeth paintings fetch $2M at NYC auction
Six paintings by the famous Wyeth family of artists have sold for just over $2 million at a New York City auction. New Jersey businessman Eric Sambol sold the works by Andrew, Jamie and N.C. Wyeth at Christie's on Thursday. They included three by Andrew, two by Jamie, and one ...
Study: No higher cancer rate at Conn. Pratt plants
An 11-year study of the incidence of brain cancer at jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney in the state ended Thursday with university researchers saying they found no statistically significant elevations in the rate of cancer among workers. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Illinois at ...
Arena Football League set to touch down in China
The AFL is set to go long — really long — and touch down in China. The Arena Football League is taking expansion to a global level with plans to export their 50-yard fields and high-scoring offenses to Asia. Are you ready for some "mei shi gan lan qiu!?" That's ...
Ex-PSU player takes battle vs. bullying to book
A former Penn State women's basketball player has written a new book to champion the anti-bullying efforts she supported during her playing days in Happy Valley. Gizelle Studevent's book, "Bridges," debuted this month on Amazon.com. It draws partly on Studevent's own experiences of being bullied in high school while growing ...
Corbett nominates Harner as new education chief
Gov. Tom Corbett has nominated William Harner to be Pennsylvania's next education secretary. The posting of Harner's nomination, announced Thursday sets the stage for a Senate confirmation hearing and vote. The Republican governor had announced last week that Harner, superintendent of Cumberland Valley School District in Mechanicsburg, is his choice ...
Wyden: FracFocus a 'constructive' tool on drilling
A website partially funded by the oil and gas industry could be a "constructive" tool for federal regulators as they consider requiring public disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations, Senate Energy Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said Thursday. Wyden, D-Ore., stopped short of endorsing the website, FracFocus.org, but said ...
Cops probe link between Pa. heist, school threats
Police and the FBI are investigating whether two high school bomb threats were phoned in to divert authorities from a southwestern Pennsylvania bank robbery that occurred at about the same time. The FBI is reviewing phone records from the Bentworth and California Area school districts, which received the threats from ...
Vicksburg marks anniversary of Civil War siege
Even 150 years later, Vicksburg is still overshadowed by Gettysburg — so much so, that the Mississippi city is having its Civil War commemoration a few weeks early rather than compete with Pennsylvania for tourist dollars around July 4. Union forces waged a long campaign to conquer Vicksburg and gain ...
PA Lottery
These Pennsylvania lotteries were drawn Thursday: Cash 5 19-21-22-32-41 (nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, thirty-two, forty-one) Estimated jackpot: $500,000 Evening Big 4 5-1-6-7 (five, one, six, seven) Evening Daily Number 1-2-0 (one, two, zero) Evening Quinto 7-9-1-0-5 (seven, nine, one, zero, five) Match 6 Lotto 04-14-16-21-27-40 (four, fourteen, sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-seven, forty) ...
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