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Legislation proposed by two House Democrats would create a Pennsylvania Youth Service Corps, providing jobs to clean up the environment and undertake ...

President Joe Biden formally announced his re-election bid this week. The nation reacted with a collective yawn. Mr. Biden’s four years have been mark...

Lawmakers were so eager to accommodate the natural gas industry nearly two decades ago that they opened the rich Marcellus Shale gas field without an ...

Space travel isn’t for the faint of heart. Even test flights without humans on board can be nerve-racking events. And so it was Thursday, when a Space...

PITTSBURGH — A partial list of Hall of Famers who left their original team after achieving greatness: Michael Jordan. Tom Brady. Joe Montana. Johnny U...

DALLAS (TNS) — A trio of federal court decisions has left uncertainty and confusion about the legality of abortion pills and the conditions under whic...

Pennsylvania lawmakers regularly give away the store to wealthy interests. The theory is that it’s necessary to compete with neighboring states for de...

It hasn’t been a pleasant start to 2023 for St. Bonaventure men’s basketball coach Mark Schmidt. When the calendar changed, he saw his Bonnies go from...

If you feel like drag queens are ubiquitous these days, you aren’t wrong. Whether it’s public libraries, advertisements or award shows, it seems like ...

In his rookie season, Steelers quarterback Kenny Pickett saved his best for last. He made NFL history with back-to-back come-from-behind-wins to close...

The same schools dominate the Big 30 wrestling All-Star selections seemingly every year. When star wrestlers graduate, new ones fill their spots. The ...

You may read about them in the newspaper, run into them in the supermarket, or even see them patching potholes, mowing along local roads, or plowing s...

Nothing felt right about Andrew McCutchen’s final home game here, likely because it wasn’t clear if it was his final home game here. The date was Sept...

Pennsylvania’s U.S. senators are leading the push to hold the rail industry more accountable for ensuring the safety not just of the people who work i...

The philosopher Eric Hoffer famously wrote, “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Wh...

A woman named Pamela Smart will remain in prison for the foreseeable future. New Hampshire’s highest court on Wednesday rejected the latest attempt to...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — The last three weeks have been a blur to Jim Crowley. It was 21 days ago that the Providence women’s basketball coach parted w...

This year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament has put the “mad” in March Madness, with all of the highest-ranked teams eliminated and a most unlikely F...

COVID-19 was already spreading widely around the world in February and early March of 2020 — well before many Americans had gotten the message that th...

HARRISBURG — Every good story needs a villain, and in the story of Pennsylvania’s 2023-24 budget, it seems like the Republicans who’ve controlled the ...