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Shooter Cole Tomas Allen, 31-year-old from California, in custody after attempting to enter the ballroom with guns and knives during the White House Correspondents Dinner at the Washington Hilton. (Molly Riley/Planet Pix via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa/TNS)

Comment & Opinion, Opinion

April 30, 2026

Shooter gives Trump a political respite

By CARL P. LEUBSDORF The Dallas Morning News

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The gunman who forced the postponement of Donald Trump’s first presidential a...

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Cooney named Student of the Week

April 30, 2026

Carson Cooney, a senior at Austin Area High School, is Seneca Highlands Career and Technical Center’s Student of the Week. A student in the Engineerin...

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Comment & Opinion, Opinion

‘And THEN what happened?’

By DEB WUETHRICH

April 30, 2026

I first learned to read and write by tracing the carbons on my mom’s food order pads. She was a car hop at a local burger joint. This was before I eve...

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Outdoors

New member orientation set for Saturday

April 30, 2026

The McKean County Rifle Club will be holding a new member orientation Saturday at 8:30 A.M. Membership accepted at this session will be good through M...

Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports

Outdoors: Perseverance pays off in the spring gobbler woods

By WADE ROBERTSON

April 30, 2026

Once again, I stood high on a ridge top, greeting the dawn. I hooted and the sound echoed back at me from the hillside, answered instantly by a gobble...

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College Sports, Local Sports, Sports

A coach, a community, and the medicine game

By HENRY BUCHAN, Special to the Era

April 30, 2026

In Seneca communities, the first stick is given early. Tyrone Bowen-Collateta knows the weight of it, not heavy, not yet, just enough to feel real in ...

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