Some people take their dogs places. In the case of Walt Stover of Tidioute, Millie is taking him to Orlando. Millie, a two-and-a-half year old black Labrador retriever, is highly ranked as a dock diving dog. They’re a team, but Millie does the hard work. In 2018, Stover was ...
It’s duck season. In this particular case, it’s a hunt with “Duck” season. But when Warren’s Scott Swartz walked into a Northwest Bank branch one random day, he had no idea what he’d be aiming for. Staring at him was a cardboard cutout of former Pittsburgh Steelers’ ...
Rain and thunderstorms had not quite moved into the area by the time the canoe races started on Thursday morning at Chapman Lake, but the wind was strong enough to challenge some young paddlers. It was Luke Josefik’s first time competing on the lake. “It’s beautiful here with the ...
There isn’t anything about Kayla Crosby that surprises Maceo Wofford. That wasn’t always the case. Wofford is one of the best basketball players to ever come from Jamestown, N.Y. He scored 2,259 career points at Jamestown High School, and the New York all-state guard went on to score ...
In 2018, Max Scherzer led Major League Baseball with 220.2 innings pitched. Jacob deGrom was second with 217 and Corey Kluber third with 215. Together, those three threw 652.2 innings in their respective 162 game seasons≥ A Youngsville native pitching in 1884 – in an approximately 120 ...
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Artie Burns has been charged with driving with a suspended license. A Miami Beach Police report says an officer pulled over Burns’ Cadillac SUV in South Beach on Thursday for having an expired tag. The report says the 22-year-old ...
IBIUNA, Brazil (AP) — A prospect with a 94 mph fastball gets a lot of attention, no matter where he is pitching — even when that prospect is a diminutive 16-year-old from a country with little baseball tradition. Eric Pardinho’s blazing fastball has brought scouts to this city 50 miles ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Hunter Pence drove in four runs and the San Francisco Giants pounced on Pittsburgh starter Gerrit Cole for seven runs then added six more against the bullpen to rout the Pirates 13-5 on Friday night. Leadoff man Denard Span went 4 for 5 with a home run and scored four ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — As pleased as Jason Pominville was upon hearing he was returning to the Buffalo Sabres, it was nothing compared to the excitement of his son, Jayden. “My little guy already has his (Sabres) jersey on right now,” Pominville said Friday, shortly after the former ...
OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. (AP) — Danielle Kang won back-to-back majors as an amateur yet she’s never cracked the winner’s circle in her half-dozen years as a pro. The 24-year-old Californian took a big step in the right direction, grabbing a share of the second-round lead in the morning wave ...
Two people with knowledge of the details say the Indiana Pacers have agreed to trade Paul George to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis in a stunning deal that gives MVP Russell Westbrook a new running mate. The people said teams came together on the trade Friday ...
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s retirement tour is making an emotional stop at NASCAR’s most famous track. Earnhardt won his first pole Friday since Sept. 29, 2013, and will lead the field to the green flag in what could be his final Cup Series race at Daytona ...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Shariah Harris says the stares, the inappropriate comments and the whispering that comes with being a black woman playing polo can be discouraging at times, but it won’t stop her from riding. The 19-year-old from southwest Philadelphia, who plays collegiately at ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — It was just past 4 a.m. on Thursday when Andrew Tokasz decided it was time to inject some energy into a hockey game that was entering its seventh consecutive day. Shortly after Team White’s Kenny Corp scored on a backhander from the slot to cut Team Blue’s lead to ...
At least 12 greyhound racing dogs in Florida have tested positive for cocaine, and their trainer has had his license suspended. It’s at least the second instance this year of racing greyhounds testing positive for cocaine. The dogs raced at Bestbet Orange Park in northeast Florida near ...
TOKYO (AP) — IOC Vice President John Coates says the addition of new sports at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will attract youth and create gender equality without driving up costs. In an effort to give the games a more youthful and urban appeal, the IOC has added 3-on-3 basketball and BMX ...
DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — The Tour de France calls its start the “Grand Depart.” This year it feels more like the “Grand Return.” Six years after German TV stopped broadcasting cycling’s showpiece event because of a series of doping scandals and three decades after it last ...
DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — A scene from Godfather III about sums up where the Tour de France is with doping as the 2017 edition begins on Saturday. In the movie, Al Pacino’s character Michael Corleone laments that his efforts to become a bona fide businessman are being undermined by his ...
BOSTON (AP) — Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez, already serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder, was acquitted Friday in a 2012 double slaying prosecutors said was fueled by his anger over a drink spilled at a nightclub. The former New England Patriots tight end choked back tears as the ...
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Rickie Fowler finally got to the top of the leaderboard in a major and didn’t have much of a view. Right next to him was Charley Hoffman, playing in the final group going into the weekend at the Masters for the second time in three years. Sergio Garcia knew the score ...