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PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Hopes that the University of Pittsburgh will eke out its annual state appropriation appear to hinge, at least partly, on fetal tiss...

Republican state Rep. Natalie Mihalek’s proposed constitutional amendment to get Pennsylvania out of the booze business is simplicity itself: “The Com...

State legislators addicted to easy money long ago rolled over for casino operators who claimed that they couldn’t make money, and provide the state go...

After reading Gene Lyons’ “Hey MAGA Folks, Can You Define ‘Great’?” I offer a few rebuttal comments. I just finished reading “Call Sign Chaos” by reti...

A few days ago, on his way home from work, my husband helped push a stranger’s car into a gasoline stall. The driver had run out of gas just as she wa...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) approved plans on Thursday submitted by five major electric and natural gas utilities to...

The Meals on Wheels program has been expanding and delivering outside the Bradford area — recipients in Smethport and others in Lafayette Township and...

With gas prices nearing $5 per gallon nearly everywhere, you’d think the Left would be a little more careful “saying the quiet part out loud.” Take Se...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Pennsylvania’s state university system Wednesday overhauled the way hundreds of millions of public dollars are allocated each year ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday intensified its drive to tame high inflation by raising its key interest rate by three-quarters of ...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf and state lawmakers are launching into their busiest stretch: the horse-trading and budget-making weeks of June that are va...

This past weekend was the 90th Anniversary Celebration for Zippo Manufacturing, but it was also the 25th anniversary of the day the Zippo/Case Museum ...

Bradford has always had a propensity for town characters. Nearly everyone can remember at least one individual, man or woman, who made the Bradford ar...

It was a little more than eight decades ago that a man named George Blaisdell happened to witness a friend attempt to light a lady’s cigarette on a wi...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — The University of Pittsburgh has nominated Doug Browning, a 1971 political science graduate and principal with the independent cons...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Fireworks should have been set off at the stateCapitolon Wednesday to celebrate state legislators finally acknowledging they fouled ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania state lawmakers are advancing proposed new limits on fireworks in response to growing complaints after a 5-year-old sta...

HARRISBURG — Misguided and out-of-touch government policies have driven inflation to historic highs across the Commonwealth and the country. Members o...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Republican state lawmakers continued to criticize a PennDOT plan to toll nine bridges around the state that they say would hurt sma...

It sounds a bit romantic and far-fetched to some, and more than any one person can tackle. But Jessica Herzing is not just one person. She has been wo...