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St. Clairsville falls in nine-inning regional championship rollercoaster

MARIETTA — It just wasn’t meant to be for the St. Clairsville baseball team on Thursday. The Red Devils led Lynchburg-Clay 4-2 in the bottom of the sixth inning of their Ohio Division V Region 19 championship game, only to have one of the whackiest plays you’ll ever see allow the ...

Today is 81st anniversary of ‘The Longest Day’

FRANCIS DALTON never forgot the rustle of the foliage on the other side of that jungle wall — or what happened next. His senses were thrumming like a live electrical wire. He was as jittery as a cat, and as laser-focused as only a grizzled veteran who was already wounded twice in war, ...

Chisholm hits tiebreaking homer leading Yankees past Guardians 3-2

NEW YORK (AP) — Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit a tiebreaking home run in his return from a month on the injured list, Carlos Rodon won his seventh straight decision and the New York Yankees beat the Cleveland Guardians 3-2 on Tuesday night for their 11th win in 14 games. Back from a strained right oblique that caused him to miss 28 games, Chisholm pulled a fastball into the first row of the right-center seats against Tanner Bibee (4-6) for a 2-1 lead in the seventh inning. Six pitches later, Anthony Volpe drove a sweeper into the left-field stands, giving the Yankees back-to-back homers for ...

Unpacking the baseline battle: Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ and the national debt

(The Center Square) — Top U.S. Senate Republicans are eyeing a controversial accounting method to theoretically slash the multi trillion-dollar price tag of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” However, tax policy experts remain strongly divided over whether the tactic would constitute legitimate policy or a recipe for fiscal disaster. The current version of the budget reconciliation package, entitled the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, passed the U.S. House on a razor-thin margin. The bill would give a 10-year extension to key portions of the expiring 2017 Tax Cuts ...

In just a few months, ICE makes 1,000+ worksite enforcement actions

(The Center Square) — In just a few months, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrested more than 1,000 “illegal alien workers without employment authorization.” It’s “the highest rate of arrest in HSI’s history,” HSI acting Executive Associate Director Robert ...