Entertainment, Lifestyles
Sep 09, 2015
ALEXANDER CITY, Ala. (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Harper Lee politely knocked on truck driver Robert Louis Burns' door in rural Alabama one ...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Sep 08, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — Sherman Alexie is defending his decision to include a poem by a white man writing under a Chinese pen name in the "Best American Poetr...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Sep 08, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — James Patterson's next stop on his literacy crusade is Baltimore. The best-selling author, who has donated millions of dollars to book...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Sep 08, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — The mother of Brittany Maynard, the brain cancer patient who became a leading advocate for the right to die, is working on a memoir. T...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Sep 02, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, has a book deal. McCaul's "Failures ...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Aug 31, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — There was the blind man who had the disastrous experience of regaining his sight. The surgeon who developed a sudden passion for music...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Aug 28, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — Jonathan Martin, the former NFL tackle who abruptly left the Miami Dolphins and has since said he attempted suicide, is working on a m...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Aug 13, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Award winner James McBride is returning to nonfiction for his next project. The author of "The Good Lord Bird" has a dea...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Aug 07, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — Prize-winning crime writer Steve Hamilton has a new publisher just days after leaving St. Martin's Press over what he cited as lack of...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Aug 04, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — The death of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe at the hands of an American bow hunter continues to generate outrage around the world, but bri...
Nation, News
Aug 03, 2015
ST. LOUIS (AP) — EDITOR'S NOTE — A year ago, most Americans had never heard of the St. Louis suburb called Ferguson. But after a white police officer ...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Jul 28, 2015
SEATTLE (AP) — True-crime writer Ann Rule signed a contract to write a book about an unknown Seattle serial killer six months before he was identified...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Jul 22, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — Few minds were as playful and as serious as E.L. Doctorow's. Conjurer of old-time gangsters and ragtime stars. Commentator on wars and...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Jul 21, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — Eighty years after the release of "Green Hills of Africa," the son and grandson of Ernest Hemingway are urging a fresh look at a work ...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Jul 20, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — Critics dismissed it as a rough draft for "To Kill a Mockingbird" and readers despaired over an aging, racist Atticus Finch. But Harpe...
Nation, News
Jul 11, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — Harper Lee's unexpected new novel offers an unexpected and startling take on an American literary saint, Atticus Finch. "Go Set a Watc...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Jul 01, 2015
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — At a militant training camp in Pakistan, a new recruit asks his instructor why his comrades are attacking churches and mosques...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Jun 26, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie — already a poet, novelist and short story writer — moves into a new realm with his first pi...
Entertainment, Lifestyles
Jun 12, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — Six letters by "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee to one of her close friends failed to sell at auction Friday. The archive had...
News, World
Jun 11, 2015
LONDON (AP) — The European Union has launched an antitrust investigation into online retailer Amazon over its distribution of e-books, which have beco...
PA State News
August 2, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK — Making wine is a complex endeavor — it depends on grape composition, microbes like yeast, and environmental conditions such as tempe...
Business, Nation & World, PA State News
August 2, 2025
(TNS) — If there was any takeaway from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s first public meeting on the restart of the nuclear power station at Three M...
Lifestyles, Local News, Local Sports, ...
August 2, 2025
Mast crops are spotty this year, except for acorns. Soft mast, like apples and wild cherries, seems to be minimal to none in most areas. Soft mast blo...
Round the Square
August 2, 2025
EXCITED: It's August — are you getting excited for the fabulous events in McKean County during this back-to-school month? It's Festa Italiana in Bradf...
Lifestyles
August 2, 2025
Dear Heloise: When hanging up pictures, it is best to drill a pilot hole into the plaster for the nail before hammering it in. If one does not drill a...
Lifestyles
August 2, 2025
DEAR ABBY: I made a terrible mistake moving 2,000 miles across the country to be closer to my grandchildren. In the past, I have always noticed my son...
