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    UPDATED: Authorities investigating shooting death in city
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    UPDATED: Authorities investigating shooting death in city
    Sara Furlong s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
    June 7, 2025
    Police are investigating a shooting death that occurred Saturday afternoon in the City of Bradford. District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer and...
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    Tough talk not enough
    Editorials, Opinion
    Tough talk not enough
    Mark Ivancic 
    Apr 09, 2014
    Out in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania lawmakers are scrambling to climb on the bandwagon. "This is outrageous," they say. "We shouldn't be allowed to accept...
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    GM should face scrutiny
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    GM should face scrutiny
    Mark Ivancic 
    Apr 03, 2014
    General Motors knew about the faulty ignition switches in its small cars for more than a decade, yet only issued a recall last month. Twelve deaths ha...
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    In contraceptive challenge, are employees people?
    Editorials, Opinion
    In contraceptive challenge, are employees people?
    Mark Ivancic 
    Mar 28, 2014
    A year ago, for the fifth straight year, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. raised wages for its full-time hourly employees. They’re now paid $14 an hour. The ho...
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    Bipartisan dishonesty on race
    Editorials, Opinion
    Bipartisan dishonesty on race
    Mark Ivancic 
    Mar 27, 2014
    Will America ever find a healthy equilibrium on the issue of race? For nearly the first two centuries of our country’s existence, the treatment of rac...
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    The perils of a Comcast, Time Warner cable deal
    Editorials, Opinion
    The perils of a Comcast, Time Warner cable deal
    Mark Ivancic 
    Mar 12, 2014
    Comcast and Time Warner Cable are doing their best to reassure customers that their ginormous $45.2 billion deal won’t harm consumers. In fact, it wil...
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    Tea Party and the rest of GOP should work together
    Editorials, Opinion
    Tea Party and the rest of GOP should work together
    Mark Ivancic 
    Mar 06, 2014
    Thursday marked five years since a commentator on one of the more liberal networks, MSNBC, launched the tea party movement. Since Rick Santelli’s rant...
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    Who thought FCC news study was a good idea?
    Editorials, Opinion
    Who thought FCC news study was a good idea?
    Mark Ivancic 
    Feb 28, 2014
    There is a very good reason why the freedom of speech, and of the press, from government intrusion is delineated in the very first amendment to the Co...
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    Hit brakes on mileage tax
    Editorials, Opinion
    Hit brakes on mileage tax
    Mark Ivancic 
    Feb 27, 2014
    The federal government and several state governments have begun a push for a new — and potentially creepy — way to tax drivers to pay for their use of...
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    Focus on president’s abuses, not the man
    Editorials, Opinion
    Focus on president’s abuses, not the man
    Mark Ivancic 
    Feb 25, 2014
    The “biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go...
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    Good news for Obamacare
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    Good news for Obamacare
    Mark Ivancic 
    Feb 24, 2014
    More than four months since its disastrous launch, Obamacare has finally found its mojo — at least based on enrollment statistics released by the admi...
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    Viewing Harrissburg: Wagner, Paterno are  wild cards
    Editorials
    Viewing Harrissburg: Wagner, Paterno are wild cards
    PETER JACKSON Associated Press 
    Feb 24, 2014
    HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — At the 11th hour, two men with better-than-average name recognition jumped into the already jam-packed pools of candidates for ...
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    Tracking our tags
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    Tracking our tags
    Mark Ivancic 
    Feb 22, 2014
    Even though Washington still is grappling with the public backlash over revelations about its data-mining activities with Americans’ phone records, th...
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    A deserved slap at the IRS
    Editorials
    A deserved slap at the IRS
    Mark Ivancic 
    Feb 21, 2014
    With tax season upon us, we take a little extra delight in celebrating a court decision slapping down the Internal Revenue Service. In 2011, the IRS i...
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    War on drugs a failure?
    Editorials, Opinion
    War on drugs a failure?
    Mark Ivancic 
    Feb 19, 2014
    “Marijuana arrests are half of all drug arrests and we arrest African-Americans at five times the rate of whites. This is wrong and it must stop.” Tha...
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    Report: Journalists at higher risk
    Editorials, Opinion
    Report: Journalists at higher risk
    Mark Ivancic 
    Feb 18, 2014
    A federal appeals court held in July that New York Times reporter James Risen had to provide testimony at the criminal trial of a former CIA agent cha...
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    UPDATED: Authorities investigating shooting death in city
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    UPDATED: Authorities investigating shooting death in city
    Sara Furlong s.furlong@bradfordera.com 
    June 7, 2025
    Police are investigating a shooting death that occurred Saturday afternoon in the City of Bradford. District Attorney Stephanie Vettenburg-Shaffer and...
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    A black bear yearling broke into an Indiana County nursing home. A resident wanted to give him cake
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    A black bear yearling broke into an Indiana County nursing home. A resident wanted to give him cake
    By MARY ANN THOMAS  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    June 7, 2025
    PITTSBURGH (TNS) — 'Tis the season when black bears wander into places they shouldn't be — like the nursing home in White Township, Indiana County one...
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    Final NY players for 2025 Big 30 announced
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    Jo Wankel 
    June 7, 2025
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    God’s Country Marathon set for today
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    God’s Country Marathon set for today
    Jo Wankel 
    June 7, 2025
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    Unverdorben to Lead Pitt-Bradford Volleyball
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    Unverdorben to Lead Pitt-Bradford Volleyball
    Jo Wankel 
    June 7, 2025
    The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has hired Kelly Unverdorben, longtime successful head coach at Portville (N.Y.) High School, as the sixth hea...
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    Q&A with the DA: Forfeiture of property
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    Q&A with the DA: Forfeiture of property
    By STEPHANIE VETTENBURG-SHAFFER  McKean County District Attorney  
    June 7, 2025
    (Editor’s note: The information in this special series is for educational purposes only and is not intended to address any particular case, nor should...
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