John Hay

The Friday morning Bible study meeting opened with testimony, and in his, Lloyd McNeal reported that he had done something remarkable: He had called the police with information about street activity. Back when he was engaged in street activity himself,...

James Ross Hay, 70, of Rockwood, died March 2, 2013 at Somerset Hospice House. Born Feb. 10, 1943 in Somerset, the son of Orlo Melvin Hay Sr. and Esther M. (Mort) Hay. Preceded in death by parents; grandson Kody Hay; sister Dorothy Auriemma; and brothers,...

  The Somerset County 4-H Dairy Bar celebrated its 50th birthday in 2012. In order to explain the history of the Dairy Bar, one needs to go back to the early 1950s and examine the 4-H Dairy Show program.    World War II and the Korean War were...

Police have issued a community alert warning of two separate attempted child abductions in the city's Austin neighborhood on the West Side. The first incident happened about 7:30 p.m. Oct. 1 near Maypole and LeClaire avenues. Police said a 13-year-old...

Steven Spielberg's film about a long-limbed, inspirational figure is finally coming to theaters. No, it's not a re-issue of "E.T." It's "Lincoln," starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Here are 10 facts about "Honest Abe": 1 Lincoln detested the nickname Abe, and...

During the Republican National Convention in Tampa, a website called Gateway Pundit posted photographs of letters of condolence sent by President Barack Obama to the families of Navy SEALs killed in a horrendous combat crash last year as proof that an...

Devon Carter, Jesse Chuku and Justin Goldsborough comprise Lehigh’s recruiting class of 2011-12. “We feel we have a solid class with the commitments of the graduating class of 2016,” Mountain Hawks coach Brett Reed said. “We have...

The Chairs Are Where the People Go How to Live, Work, and Play in the City Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti Faber and Faber:: 175 pp., $13 paper Sheila Heti wanted to write about her friend Misha Glouberman. The Canadian performance artists had...

Gerald Furman, 63, Leola, and Marie Delray, 53, Leola. Rocky Lahammer, 54, Aberdeen, and Janice Watson, 49, Aberdeen. Mark Baer, 41, Aberdeen, and Lindsey Milbrandt, 29, Aberdeen. Jason Bickel, 23, Aberdeen, and Chelsie Pavlicek, 22, Aberdeen....

Based on a little-known historical incident, Wayne Peter Liebman’s “Better Angels,� now in its West Coast premiere at the Colony, is a scrupulously researched and respectful drama that appropriately honors the Lincoln bicentennial. As far as vibrant...

Jim Bellows, a legendary editor who built a career resuscitating underdog big-city newspapers from Los Angeles to New York and helped turn Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin into stars, has died. He was 86. Bellows, a longtime resident of Brentwood, died...

The Upper Valley, as this area is known locally, consists of the west-central portion of New Hampshire stretching from Claremont and the Lake Sunapee region in the south to the Lebanon and Hanover region in the north. CLAREMONT >> Claremont Lodging...