HEATH TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WJAC) — Members of a Jefferson County sportsman club are asking for help after they say 8,000 fish from their nursery were killed by flooding that washed through Thursday night.
The Heath Township Sportsman Club is now asking the community to help dispose of the fish.
Volunteers are told to gather their buckets, shovels and gloves and to meet at the raceway off of State Route 949 at noon Saturday. Read More...
JOHNSTOWN — Laurel Auto Group--like every other team in the Johnstown Collegiate Baseball League--wants to win the championship.
LAG finished in third place last season.
This year's team only had to replace three players. Manager Jim Skiles thinks his squad can compete for a title.
"These guys love the game of baseball," Skiles said. "And, that should be motivation, enough."
His players agree. Portage graduate Jake Swank says he and his teammates will approach the season with a loose, free-flowing attitude. Read More...
CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France (AP) — Parachutists jumping from World War II-era planes hurled themselves Sunday into now peaceful Normandy skies where war once raged, heralding a week of ceremonies for the fast-disappearing generation of Allied troops whofought from D-Day beaches 80 years ago to Adolf Hitler's fall, helping free Europe of his tyranny.
All along the Normandy coastline — where then-young soldiers from across the United States, Britain, Canada and other Allied nations waded ashore through hails of fire on five beaches on June 6, 1944 — French officials, grateful Normandy survivors and other admirers are saying " Read More...