Shanksville News

It has been almost two decades since terrorists trained in Perry County to detonate a bomb at the World Trade Center in 1993.

"I love United Way ," Lladel Lichty said. "It is such a quality organization. I'm amazed at what we do and how we're threaded throughout the community." Lichty has been working at United Way of the Laurel Highlands for just seven months, but she's already an enthusiastic spokeswoman for the programs it offers.

Shade's Kaily Karl went a perfect 3-for-3 with a triple and three runs scored in a 5-2 varsity softball win over WestPAC rival Shanksville Tuesday.

Dakota Long manned a shovel Monday while Ryan Zerfoss broomed it full of gravel during what has become a yearly tradition in Shanksville.

For some, the Tsarnaev brothers are Chechen avengers, young men seared by the long war in Russia's "southern backyard." For Vladimir Putin and his regime, this deed of terror in an American city is, doubtless, a vindication of the iron fist with which the Russians fought their long war against Chechnya, proof of the malignancy of the Islamist ... (more)