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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants communities to stop fluoridating water, and he is setting the gears of g...

PITTSBURGH (TNS)— The pandemic stretched us — our communication, our science, our distribution networks, even what it means to be a good citizen amid ...

A measles outbreak inWest TexasandNew Mexicohas killed a child and sickened more than 130 people, and public health experts fear it’s only the beginni...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The theft this month of 100,000 eggs with a street value of $40,000 from a trailer in Franklin County has attracted national attent...

If the government illegally takes your property, it shouldn’t have to compensate you, because its actions were illegal. So argues the government. Duri...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Just as coronavirus transmission fluctuated in waves, so too have our responses to it. The world is four years from the acute phase...

CHICAGO (TNS) — Pfizer’s and Moderna’s bivalent boosters, which are now available to many age groups, offer protection against the original COVID-19 v...

DUBOIS — Just when people’s fears about the many variants of the COVID-19 virus began to ease, a new virus — monkeypox — became news and may be causin...

People no longer know what to do about the COVID pandemic. Part of the problem is the very language we use to talk about it. Words such as “breakthrou...

Last Halloween, I gathered up a lawn chair and an enormous bowl of candy and sat on my front steps, not quite sure what to expect. Weeks earlier, the ...

SMETHPORT — The Smethport Area School Board approved a site agreement Monday whereby the district will become a satellite delivery site for the Rural ...

Whether students and staff should be required to mask up in Pennsylvania schools will remain a local decision, at least for now, after top Republican ...

The last year or so has been some big trouble for small businesses. It wasn’t unexpected. When stay-at-home orders were issued and capacity restrictio...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — My family spent time over the weekend planning what we will do this summer. My wife and I are fully vaccinated and our sons will be ...

Do you wear the mask or not? For more than a year, the issue has been out there. At first the recommendations were to stay home and not bother with fa...

It seems a simple request from President-elect Joe Biden, given the current coronavirus situation. Commit to wearing a mask for 100 days. Everyone. St...

With few exceptions, no one knows precisely when any individual will be offered the opportunity to roll up his sleeve for a COVID-19 vaccination, thou...

On Monday, the first health care workers rolled up their sleeves and accepted a shot in the arm of the Pfizer/ BioNTech cocktail that offers hope agai...

2020 has been a scary year. Especially for kids. They have had school canceled, endured extreme social isolation, been told visiting their grandparent...

Despite the force and weight with which it has dropped on the United States, the coronavirus pandemic isn’t a meteor. It is a mistake to treat it as s...