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Steve Leskinen Jogs the Track

Steve Leskinen jogs around the track at the Uniontown YMCA during a fitness assessment at the first meeting of the Shape-Up Challenge, where contestants compete to lose weight over the course of several weeks.

Samantha and Matthew Grimm

Samantha Grimm, 8, left, listens to her iPad in the craft room while her brother Matthew, 10, plays on his iPad in the living room. Samantha and Matthew are both on the autism spectrum, though Matthew's is a higher-functioning form.

Wolf surrounded

Governor Tom Wolf tries to defend the continuing budget impasse to the public gathered outside the Connellsville City Building on Tuesday, October 20 after a visit intended to drum up support for his stance.

James R. Gustafson, Jr. Funeral

Classmates of James R. Gustafson cry after leaving James's funeral on Thursday afternoon in Mount Pleasant. Gustafson, 13, was killed Sunday, March 20, when a friend was playing with a gun and it went off, fatally shooting James.

James R. Gustafson, Jr. Funeral

James R. Gustafson cries at his son's casket after the 13-year-old boy, James Jr., was killed Sunday, March 20 when a friend playing with a gun accidentally fired it, fatally shooting James.

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Madison Rapchak, 6, of Newell watches her line at Dunlap Creek Lake on Saturday, March 26, which was a mentored youth trout fishing day a week before trout season officially began.

Solidarity and Progress

A supporter of the United Mine Workers of America holds up a Solidarity sign as 5,000 miners and UMWA supporters march down Route 21 in Waynesburg, Pa. to express solidarity for organized labor movements on April 1, 2016, Mitchell Day, an annual UMWA union holiday.

Bill Clinton greets supporters

Former president Bill Clinton greets supporters at an office for his wife's campaign in Washington, Pa. on Friday, September 9.

Lollipops for minutiae

Brenton Barnhart, 9, second from right with lollipop, competes with his classmates to answer questions about whorls, loops, arches, and tent arches on fingerprints at one of the stations presented by Waynesburg University students to teach the kids about forensics. Barnhart won a lollipop for each correct answer, and he decided to eat all of them at once.

Stumping for Trump

Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence spoke to a crowd of several hundred at the campus of Westmoreland County Community College on Tuesday, November 1. The Indiana Governor stumped for Donald Trump as Election Day approaches next Tuesday.

Give him your glove as well

Quincy Howard, 12, left, and his sister Royona Lewis, 14, read from the Bible at Bible Released Time, where Brownsville Area students get out of school for an hour per week for nondenominational bible study at South Brownsville United Methodist Church. Quincy and Royona were each wearing half of a pair of gloves to keep warm in the church classroom.

Faces on the wall

Dennis Hawkins looks at a memorial corner of his photograph-covered walls, with funerary bulletins and memoriam fliers interspersed with other photographs he has taken.