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A friend down at the dog park asked about my wife the other day. She and her girlfriend had taken a long weekend trip to visit a former roommate. My f...

In two days at Shiloh in April 1862, the Union and Confederate armies altogether suffered 23,000 casualties, a shattering total that was the worst of ...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Most of those hospitalized Tuesday after a carbon monoxide leak at an Allentown daycare center are back home. That’s wonderful news....

Radon could be almost anywhere. You can’t see it like smoke. It is colorless and transparent. You can’t smell it like a gas leak. It gives off no tell...

Generations of reliance on Saudi oil has skewedthe United States'relationship with the corrupt medieval monarchy. The economic reality precluded the B...

A short time ago, several individuals were taken into custody in Mckean County for attempting to distribute, among other things, fentanyl. What is fen...

Gov.Gifford Pinchot— who was a visionary in other respects — disagreed with Prohibition's repeal in 1933. He devised a system making it difficult to b...

As I was watching YouTube videos of Ukrainian forces advancing against Russian troops , my mind flashed back to a conversation I had in a pizza restau...

Five leaders of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia that played a leading role in storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, went on trial last week in ...

Newspapers no longer are the center of the broad media universe, but they remain the center of the shrunken, fact-based media universe. If you’re inte...

It was supposed to be a reunion of sorts. The Steelers would come into Highmark Stadium Sunday afternoon with a former Bills backup starting at quarte...

National Football League coaches maintain their business is a fraternity and it’s created by the itinerant nature of the job. It’s true of head coache...

That Aaron Judge’s 61st home run of the season, surpassing The Babe and tying Roger Maris, came against division rivals Toronto was so fitting. He car...

A common sound bite today is that the Federal Reserve’s recent interest rate hike is pushing the nation toward recession. But that’s like beginning a ...

It will be interesting to see the Bills’ first injury report come tomorrow as they prepare to meet the Ravens Sunday afternoon in Baltimore. There’s l...

The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed a bill to reform how Congress certifies electors after a presidential election. That bill (or a sim...

Fort Worth, Texas (TNS) — There’s something noticeably different at Nolan Catholic High School in Fort Worth this year. It’s not new uniforms or facil...

”The pandemic is over,” President Joe Biden declared this month as he toured the Detroit Auto Show. “We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still d...

This one really hurt … as in that 9-6 loss last season at Jacksonville painful. Bad enough the Bills fell to the NFL’s worst team in that one; even wo...

Pennsylvania lawmakers infamously have protected themselves from inflation by giving themselves automatic annual pay increases tied to an inflation in...