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Swatting incidents inspire plans for tougher penalties
Crime, PA State News
By LAUREN JESSOP The Center Square 
Dec 15, 2025
HARRISBURG – A rise in swatting, defined as bogus emergency calls meant to trigger an armed police response, particularly at Pennsylvania schools and ...
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Pennsylvania straddles the AI divide
Business, PA State News
Dec 15, 2025
HARRISBURG — A clash of future visions that seems to encapsulate both the fears and hopes of many Pennsylvanians found expression at the Capitol this ...
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SHINGLEHOUSE: Candlelight remembrance
Local News
Dec 15, 2025
Kevin J. Dusenbury, funeral director/owner of Virgil L. Howard Funeral Home in Shinglehouse, announced his Candlelight Service of Remembrance will be ...
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Local oil purchasers decrease prices
Business, Local News
Dec 15, 2025
Two local oil purchasers have decreased the price they will pay for Penn grade crude oil. Effective Friday, American Refining Group and Ergon Oil Purc...
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Tort reform advocates single out Philadelphia
PA State News
By CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
Dec 13, 2025
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia’s notoriety as a destination of choice for plaintiffs seeking generous awards through litigation continues to pull focus i...
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DIFFERENCE MAKERS: A joyful spirit
Local News
By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
Dec 12, 2025
The people who hand us our morning coffee, ring up our gas or greet us on a quick stop inside the convenience store become part of our daily rhythm. M...
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ELF Fund pulls off largest distribution yet
Local News
Sara Furlong 
Dec 12, 2025
The Era’s Less Fortunate (ELF) Fund staged another massive holiday distribution Friday morning — its biggest to date — filling the former Sears buildi...
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‘It’s been a snowy place’
Local News
Sara Furlong 
Dec 12, 2025
Only eight more days until winter starts. Actually, that depends who you ask. Astronomically speaking, winter begins on the winter solstice, the short...
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Home for the holidays
Local News
Dec 12, 2025
Era photographer Wade Aiken came across these eye-catching Christmas decorations on Bolivar Drive. We'll share other strikingly spiffed up homes for t...
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Teen charged in April ATV death
Local News
By MARCIE SCHELLHAMMER marcie@bradfordera.com 
Dec 12, 2025
SMETHPORT — The teenage all-terrain vehicle operator whose passenger was killed in a crash April 17 in Bradford is being charged with homicide by vehi...
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Bradford woman’s legacy inspires new novel
Local News
Sara Furlong 
Dec 12, 2025
Author Patricia Vido recalls her friend. A force of a woman who “energized any room when she entered it,” valued education and inspired other women an...
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ELDRED: ‘Cheermeister’ title up for grabs as holiday trap shoot returns
Local News, Local Sports, Outdoors
Holiday trap shoot returns
By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
Dec 12, 2025
ELDRED – The Eldred Conservation Club is kicking off the holiday season with its second annual Holiday Whooby-Whatty Trap Shoot, set for 9 a.m. Sunday...
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Local students graduate from Pitt-Bradford
Local News
Dec 12, 2025
The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford was expected to graduate 56 students Saturday during commencement exercises at Bromeley Family Theater. Those...
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Proposal would mandate English test for drivers
Nation & World, PA State News
By CHRISTINA LENGYEL The Center Square 
Dec 12, 2025
HARRISBURG — As concern for the role of immigrants in traffic fatalities increases following a series of highly publicized incidents, Republicans in t...
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