Brad Hundt

Genesis HealthCare Inc., the onetime nursing home giant that owns facilities in Uniontown and South Fayette Township, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Based in Kennett Square, the company filed for bankruptcy Thursday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas. Genesis operates 175 skilled nursing facilities in 18 states. Of those […]

PITTSBURGH – Appearing at what is being billed as the first-ever Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit, President Trump praised the commonwealth’s energy sector and trumpeted a series of investments in energy and artificial intelligence that are set to be made across the state. “It’s a really triumphant day for the people of the commonwealth and […]

PITTSBURGH – Alexa Kay is a Quaker, a denomination which has embraced simplicity and shunned more extravagant forms of worship, even singing. Nevertheless, Kay likes to sing, and that’s what led her to the Church of the Redeemer in Squirrel Hill on a sweltering Saturday afternoon earlier this month. Kay was there with almost 20 […]

The sun was a few hours from setting in Pennsylvania and had already been up for a couple of hours in Japan when the Enola Gay moved rapidly in the sky over Hiroshima and dropped a single bomb on the city on Aug. 6, 1945. What happened that day was one of the pivotal events […]

The Judy Early Education Group could be serving up to 342 children in Fayette and Westmoreland counties in its child care centers, but it has only 197 enrolled. The reason? They would need to recruit nine additional teachers, according to Christina Saunders, the director of administration for the organization. And trying to find – and […]

If Ronnie Platt ever finds that he’s not in Kansas anymore, he has a backup plan. A truck driver before becoming the lead singer of the veteran classic rock band Kansas, Platt still has a commercial driver’s license in good standing. That also means that, if push comes to shove, Platt could pilot one of […]

About 50 protesters gathered outside the downtown Washington office of U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler Friday afternoon, saying the Republican congressman has been absent in his district and has not held an in-person town hall meeting with constituents in his six-year tenure on Capitol Hill. “As far as I can see, he does nothing for his […]

A New York-based investment firm has acquired the Hill Top Energy Center in Greene County. The 620-megawatt natural gas power plant in Cumberland Township has been purchased by Blackstone Energy Transition Partners, a private equity arm of the investment company Blackstone, for close to $1 billion, it was announced this week. The plant was completed […]

Plato once remarked that music is the medicine of the soul, and Chris Keenan knows a thing or two about both music and medicine. The organist and music director at Mt. Lebanon United Lutheran Church, Keenan is juggling his work as a musician with studies at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine. Keenan, who […]

In 1882, nature put on quite a show in Mt. Pleasant Township. In March of that year, the Niagara Oil Co. was poking around in the earth at the farm of Alexander McGugin, on a hunt for oil and gas. It was about 23 years after the first gas well was drilled 120 miles to […]