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HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf holds a political science doctorate, but these days he’s a freshman with an incomplete in the first big test of his ad...

Have you tried the new cinnamon bread knots at Don’s Pizza in St. Marys? Sweeter than Joe Walsh’s guitar solo in “Hotel California,” the knots were on...

NEW YORK (AP) — Here we go again. One worry after another has hit the municipal bond market in recent years, from a high-profile 2010 prediction for a...

Today, the trend in fishing seems to be toward more and more specialized rods. Certainly technology plays a big part in this since the lighter, strong...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Barack Obama returns to Africa this week, his major initiative to help the continent double access to electricity is in...

Pennsylvania was the crucible through which the Industrial Revolution was forged. Her rich coal reserves fueled the western Pennsylvania forges that p...

Some thoughts on Tom Keane and Dave Jones and a reader’s recollection of Stan Musial’s tie to Olean: • When I took the sportscasting job at Bradford’s...

A white racist with strong sympathies for the Confederacy and segregation walks into a black church in Charleston, S.C., talks with a welcoming congre...

As Pennsylvania confronts its own energy tax issues, it’s important not to lose focus on potential threats from our federal representatives. The headl...

WASHINGTON — Do not worry about Donald Trump becoming president. Worry, instead, about what his current — emphasis on current — stratospheric standing...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump can’t help himself. Nor can we. The “worse” he gets, it seems, the better we like it. Watching Trump is so deliciously awful...

Jacob and Makenzee Maley are Chicago-bound. Jacob, an eighth-grader-to-be at Fretz Middle School, and Makenzee, a freshman-to-be at Bradford Area High...

Unless the selection committee revisits the credentials of Steve Tasker and the late Kent Hull, the Pro Football Hall of Fame contingent from the Bill...

Some of the biggest struggles of the teen years for children are trying to fit in, while trying to maintain one’s individuality. Yet for so many child...

WASHINGTON — In the early days of the 2016 Republican campaign — an unusually important period, in which the viability of the GOP is being defended ag...

It was an odd way to find out about Van Miller’s passing. Driving back from Maine on Saturday evening, listening to Sirius Radio’s NFL channel, it ann...

WASHINGTON — In his satirical solution to Ireland’s prolific poor, especially among Catholics whose fish diet was thought to enhance fertility, Jonath...

HARRISBURG — In one of Pennsylvania’s defining legislative battles this century, then-Gov. Ed Rendell won passage of a $1 billion tax package, and it ...

WASHINGTON — For all the understandable attention devoted to removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House, a civil rights struggl...

What do we know about rugby? These obscure sports are featured in this column because I don’t know anything about them and I figure you don’t either, ...