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PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — It’s not an anniversary anyone wants to celebrate. Feb. 24 marks one year since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine — an act that change...

I was never so impressed as I was at the Bradford Township Concerned Citizens Meeting on Feb. 16. As usual, a variety of subjects were discussed. Near...

Only in 21st-century America can you call yourself the “proud daughter of Indian immigrants” and get accused of whitewashing your background. For the ...

SALAMANCA, N.Y. — For the first time, a number is going out of circulation for the Salamanca boys basketball team. Entering the last regular season ho...

During last week’s Super Bowl hype, developments with the Bills were pushed a bit to the background, with the notable exception of an update on the co...

Late last year, the Pennsylvania Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held a hearing in Philadelphia about the city’s critical role in ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Chinese balloon that floated across the United States this month, apparently on a mission to collect intelligence, began its jo...

OK, it’s Super Bowl weekend and time for my annual list of proposition bets courtesy of the Las Vegas bookmakers. As usual, my focus is not so much on...

It’s a task over which even the sport’s most committed proponents struggle. What can be done to grow high school wrestling? How does one reverse the t...

LeBron James is 38 years old. He is in Season 20 of his NBA career. He is, by conventional basketball-playing standards, ancient. History says his dec...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Barely three months after my start at the Times Herald in January 1973, St. Bonaventure made a stunning announcement. Larry Weise, the c...

It appears from the recent article by the Associated Press' Marc Levy and Jonathan J. Cooper that it must be un-American to question our elections pro...

HARRISBURG — Red tape still holds Pennsylvania back from cutting energy costs, natural gas advocates said Monday, even as the economic pain inflicted ...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — The state auditor general recently questioned the amount of money some school districts are holding in their savings accounts. So wh...

If you think public policy doesn’t really affect you or your family, take a quick glance at your retirement account — but you may want to sit down fir...

There are lies and liars and then there’s George Santos. Last week, news broke that the Justice Department wants the Federal Election Commission to de...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — At first glance, Priscilla Villarreal is not a particularly empathetic figure. Not to most conservatives, anyway. The tattoo...

Republicans have long said the Hunter Biden laptop scandal is really a Joe Biden story. Now, it looks like the Joe Biden classified documents scandal ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Black quarterbacks have come a long way in the NFL since Fritz Pollard became the first to play in the league in 1923 and Doug Wil...

Logging and mining companies and allied politicians lamented recently that two Biden administration decisions to preserve wilderness areas constituted...