15+ hour, 54+ min ago   (426+ words) A Philadelphia man has been ordered to serve 121 months in federal prison after admitting his central role in a cargo theft ring that targeted tractor-trailers parked across the city in 2023, according to a U.S. Department of Justice press release from the…...

21+ hour, 24+ min ago   (441+ words) Pennsylvania's flood barriers are getting older and costlier to maintain, while the storms testing them are growing more intense. According to The Conversation, the state's more than 180 levees span roughly 155 miles of riverbank and shield about 158,000 residents alongside an estimated…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (801+ words) The scope of an alleged cocaine distribution ring involving students at Penn State University remains unclear, but testimony at preliminary hearings offered some clarity as to how much money and drugs were exchanged between the two accused leaders of the…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (862+ words) The phone messages got to me. “I’m on a plane that’s been hijacked. I’m on the plane. I’m calling from the plane. I want to tell you I love you. Please tell my children that I love them very much,…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (540+ words) Jennifer Messaros walked along Broadview Boulevard in Harrison on Friday, American flag in hand, thinking about the unsung heroes from Sept. 11, 2001. “Even though it’s been 25 years, I find out something new every year,” Messaros said, while participating in the annual…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (353+ words) PennDOT has released plans to replace a degrading century-old bridge in Chartiers, Washington County, within the next two years. The one-lane Brevard Bridge opened in 1913 and carries Ullom Road over Westland Run, roughly two miles from Canonsburg. PennDOT described the…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1436+ words) Gordon Felt refuses to forget. The retired camp manager lost his older brother — Edward Porter Felt, computer whiz and perennial problem-solver — when he and 39 others on United Flight 93 thwarted hijackers’ plans on Sept. 11, 2001. Their plane crashed in a empty field…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (505+ words) Olivia Roman has no firsthand connection to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, when hijackers crashed airplanes into New York City’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Somerset County. She wasn’t yet born at the time of the attacks....

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (709+ words) Several thousand people made their way to the Flight 93 Memorial Plaza in Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Friday to mark the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Morning and afternoon ceremonies centered around the 40 passengers and crew who died preventing the hijacked…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (483+ words) On the 25th anniversary of September 11, the pilot of a United Airlines flight that never left JFK that morning is speaking out about 25 years without answers, according to TMZ, which interviewed Captain Thomas Mannello on its Friday broadcast and released a…...