Legislation drafted to reduce the number of guns confiscated by the Transportation Security Administration at Pittsburgh International Airport has been sent back to the drawing board. State Rep. Dan Frankel, D-Squirrel Hill, said he was hoping to have already presented his proposed TSA Firearm Compliance Act, a measure that would
A Parks Township woman is turning to technology to help local law enforcement identify lost animals in the Alle-Kiski Valley. Amber Phillips, owner and director of the nonprofit Champion’s Crusaiders Rescue, hopes to donate at least 28 digital animal microchip scanners to the Parks Township, Apollo, Leechburg, Southern Armstrong Regional,
25 Years Ago â 1996
After 17 years of local ministry, Pastor James G. Kloster will bid farewell to Mandan at his final preaching service to be held at the American Lutheran Church, 1705 Sunset Drive, this coming Sunday. Pastor Kloster helped found the congregation in Mandan in 1992 and assisted in building it from five families meeting in a home to its growth of nearly 50 families. Pastor Kloster is a 1990 graduate of Luther Seminary, Minneapolis, and was in the first class of seminary graduates to be ordained in the just established American Lutheran Church. He is also a U.S. Army veteran and is a member of the Mandan American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Pastor Kloster and his family will be relocating to Fargo.