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S.W. Jack and Armstrong have played some great baseball against each other and they did it again yesterday as the Drillers walk it off for a dramatic win. Todd Marino had the call of the game on Renda...

The Pirates were desperate to avoid dragging a nine-game losing streak into the All-Star break, and they managed to squeak out a win yesterday in Minnesota. Then last night, they began the next stage ...

With Major League Baseball entering its All-Star break, the minors get a rest as well, and there were two remarkable efforts by Pirates' minor league affiliates on Sunday. In their final game before t...

The wheeling and dealing continued for Penguins president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas yesterday, as he acquired 24-year-old goaltender Arturs Silovs from Vancouver for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton forwar...

The Pirates' six-game winning streak at the start of their road trip is a distant memory, after they suffered their eighth consecutive loss on Saturday. Joe Block has a recap. The Bucs will limp into ...

S.W. Jack banged out fourteen hits and scored fourteen runs in its PA Youth Legion Region 7 Tournament opener, a 14-3 five-inning win over Young Township. The Drillers scored in all four of their offe...

The Altoona Curve broke their six-game losing streak Saturday night, downing Binghampton 4-1. Reliever Blake Townsend continued his fine season, lowering his ERA to 1.23 with three-and-a-third innings...

Indiana County President Judge Thomas Bianco last week granted an unopposed motion for a ten-day extension of time for the prosecution to file for dismissal of Kevin Foley's successive petitions for r...

911 services were back to form statewide yesterday after Friday's outage, and they were needed. On a hot Saturday, Indiana County's firefighters were dispatched for several fire calls, including two r...

In Westmoreland County Court, a status conference this week in the Melissa Fox-Beacom homicide trial has been moved back a day to Friday. It had been scheduled Thursday before Judge Meagan Bilik-DeFaz...