Health, Inspiration, Survivor Stories
Aug 08, 2022
For years, Darcie Buffone, a fourth-grade teacher at Armstrong School District’s Shannock Valley Elementary, struggled with weight. She tried diets an...
Health, Inspiration, Survivor Stories
Aug 01, 2022
Earlier this year, Pine-Richland High School baseball coach Kurt Wolfe received the phone call that coaches hate to receive. It came at about 10:30 p....
Health, Inspiration, Survivor Stories
Apr 07, 2019
Victor’s Mark Syverud was diagnosed with Parkinson’s 18 years ago but it wasn’t until just recently he realized he was experiencing a new symptom of t...
Health, Inspiration, Survivor Stories
Oct 08, 2018
Staying active is how Linda Deabenderfer rolls with life. Going to the gym has been a regular part of her routine and she’s been a member of the S&T W...
Health, Inspiration, Survivor Stories
Mar 23, 2018
Randy and Brenda Oaks were enjoying vacation in Myrtle Beach in May 2017. They did some relaxing, fishing and sight-seeing. But toward the end of this...
Health, Inspiration, Survivor Stories
Jan 18, 2018
F or the past 24 years, Arthur Dilg did some pretty fun things, including taking his wife, Marilyn, on multiple trips to Germany to visit family. The ...
Health, Inspiration, Survivor Stories
Oct 17, 2017
Let’s start with a story: A man goes to work at a steel mill. An explosion throws the man into a steel wall, setting him on fire. He suffers serious t...
Health, Inspiration, Survivor Stories
May 16, 2017
A few years ago, Kelly and Michael Witter portrayed Laurey Williams and Curly McLain, respectively, in a community theater production of the musical “...
Health, Inspiration, Survivor Stories
May 12, 2017
For Donna Lee, it took just five months of catastrophe to break a habit formed more than 40 years ago. Lee, an administrative assistant for Westinghou...
Health, Survivor Stories
Mar 29, 2017
When Bob Shoup was a young man, his health took a surprising turn for the worse. But he kept up a positive attitude on what became a long and tumultuo...
Health, Survivor Stories
Mar 29, 2017
Jason Wagner is a living example of how people can overcome the worst of times. Wagner, of Hyde Park, teaches science to fourth- and fifth-graders at ...
Health, Survivor Stories
Jan 20, 2017
When one thinks of the relationship between drugs and music, the rock star lifestyle comes to mind. But for the estimated 23.5 million Americans who s...
Health, Inspiration, Mind and Body, ...
Jan 11, 2017
Frances Halley had always known she had a heart murmur, but it wasn’t until she saw Dr. Stephen Bailey, Allegheny General Hospital’s director of cardi...
Health, Inspiration, Survivor Stories
Jan 04, 2017
When Ada Fetsko was born on April 25, 2006, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Her mother, Denise Fetsko, had what she recalls as a normal pregnancy ...
Health, Inspiration, Survivor Stories
Nov 01, 2016
It was May 2003. Maggie Spuhler, now a grade school teacher at Wheatland-Chili Central School District, was in her freshman year at State University o...
Health, Inspiration, Survivor Stories
Oct 01, 2016
Lori Rieger’s family has a long history of breast cancer. Her mother, Lois Seelman, was diagnosed when she was 47. And Seelman was only 9 when her mot...
Health, Inspiration, Survivor Stories
Oct 01, 2016
At one time, Jeff Taylor, 59, would have made the cover of a health magazine. Taylor ran the New York City Marathon. He climbed a trail on the Grand C...
Health, Inspiration, Physical Health, ...
Jul 01, 2016
It might seem odd to say that Linda Vance is a lucky person. After all, Vance fought lung cancer. But she is lucky; her cancer was discovered in stage...
Health, Inspiration, Physical Health, ...
Jul 01, 2016
It was a simple movement that alerted Carol Glock to her cancer. As she leaned over her husband’s shoulder to read something on his computer, her left...
Health, Inspiration, Physical Health, ...
Jul 01, 2016
At 44, Dr. Brian Elford had it all. A successful ear, nose and throat practice in the South Hills of Pittsburgh, a wonderful wife, four kids and a new...
Local News
June 16, 2025
Bradford Community Pride Lions Club announced the winners of its fifth annual Kids Fishing Derby held Saturday at Marilla Reservoir. Winners included...
Local News
June 16, 2025
VFW Post 212 and Frances Sherman VFW Auxiliary announced its 2025 Reba Y. Maben & William “Mr. Bill” Runyan Scholarship winners are Evan D. Confer and...
Local News
Suicide prevention training aimed at saving lives
Continuing education credits available
June 16, 2025
EMPORIUM —A Penn State Extension in-person workshop will provide evidence-based training aimed at saving lives and reducing suicidal behaviors. The wo...
Business, Nation & World, PA State News
June 16, 2025
WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania Sens. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., and John Fetterman, D-Pa., introduced S. 2044, which would move the Department of Energy’s Offi...
Business, Local News, Nation & World, ...
June 16, 2025
WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump will attend Sen. Dave McCormick’s inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon Univer...
Crime, PA State News
June 16, 2025
HARRISBURG – Sen. Scott Hutchinson,R-21, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and prime sponsor of Senate Bill 719, announced the successful passa...
