Bresnahan wins in harness racing
WASHINGTON, Pa. — Mississippi Al, trained by Nathan Bresnahan of Butler, won a race Thursday when another horse was disqualified dur...
NEW WILMINGTON — Knoch graduate Michael Phillips, a junior on the Westminster College men’s swimming team, has been named Academic All-District.
A finance major, Phillips...
This year's WrestleMania is just days away, but the WWE's marketing campaign for its biggest premium live event of the year was kicked into overdrive months ago.
In Febr...
MIAMI — Sean O'Malley emphatically defended his bantamweight belt Saturday night, unanimously outpointing Marlon “Chito” Vera in UFC 299.
In a fight that he controlled fr...
Chris Mortensen, the award-winning journalist who covered the NFL for close to four decades, including 32 as a senior analyst at ESPN, died Sunday morning. He was 72.
ESP...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum and his coach died in a car crash in Kenya late Sunday, a fellow athlete who went to the hospital and saw...
The 2026 World Cup final will be played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on July 19.
FIFA made the announcement Sunday at a Miami television studio, all...
MELBOURNE, Australia — Jannik Sinner ended one of Novak Djokovic's perfect streaks in an Australian Open upset and then got to relax while Daniil Medvedev rallied from tw...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Her hand and her legs were shaking, she’d missed nine match points but also saved six, and Anna Blinkova was 41 points into a wild tiebreake...
TAMPA, Fla. — A teenage girl’s car flipped on a Tampa highway over the weekend. Then Hulk Hogan showed up.
TMZ reported that the WWE Hall of Fame wrestler, whose real nam...
PARIS — As the New Year begins, so does the countdown on Kylian Mbappé's future.
It promises to be a nervous start to 2024 for Paris Saint-Germain and its fans with specu...
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Former pro wrestler Tammy “Sunny" Sytch has been sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for drunkenly colliding with another car, killing a 75-ye...
PRETORIA, South Africa — Double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was granted parole on Friday, more than a decade after shooting his girlfriend through a toilet doo...
NEW YORK — Billie Jean King's victory in the “Battle of the Sexes” was a milestone moment as women pushed for equality on the playing field and beyond.
On the 50th annive...
BUTLER TWP — The Butler County Community College women’s volleyball team improved to 3-0 with a 3-0 win over Penn State DuBois on Monday night.
Match scores were 25-22, 2...
This is the second in a two-part series recognizing the achievements of the Senior Olympics of Western Pa. at the National Senior Games.
The slogan of the 85-member Senio...
NEW YORK (AP) — Coco Gauff is still a teenager, after all, and so it should surprise no one that she was on her phone in the locker room, scrolling through social media,...
NEW YORK (AP) — Coco Gauff reached her first the U.S. Open final by defeating Karolina Muchova 6-4, 7-5 on Thursday night in a match interrupted for 50 minutes by environ...
PENN TWP — Lizzie Swift referred to the experience as “humbling.” She wound up helping to humble the opoposition.
Swift, a Butler resident and senior at Aquinas Academy, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Novak Djokovic reached his record 47th Grand Slam semifinal, breaking a tie with Roger Federer for the most by a man, by defeating Taylor Fritz 6-1, 6-4,...
NEW YORK (AP) — Venus Williams’ 100th career U.S. Open match produced her most lopsided loss at the Grand Slam tournament where she won the trophy in 2000 and 2001.
Willi...
MADRID — Olga Carmona, whose goal won the Women’s World Cup for Spain on Sunday, learned after the final of her father’s death, the Spanish soccer federation said.
He had...
MASON, Ohio (AP) — Seventh-seeded Coco Gauff became the first teenager in more than 50 years to win the Western & Southern Open with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Karolina Much...
