ethics

One suspect in a firearms straw purchasing scheme at a Smethport business has waived her preliminary hearing, and a federal agent explained some gun l...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Reps. Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-PA-15) and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-19), co-chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Service Organization Cau...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Despite a robust economy, the U.S. budget deficit is poised to double over the next year — to an eye-watering $2 trillion. As bad as ...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — James Franklin has a pretty good idea of what he will see from quarterback Drew Allar on Saturday night. Penn State’s coach ...

Vivek Ramaswamy thinks Mike Pence failed. The former vice president is a MAGA villain for doing his constitutional duty on Jan. 6, so Ramaswamy has to...

It appears to me that life is full of lessons, some never to be forgotten. I remember fishing the Kinzua Creek when I was a boy. In front of me a scho...

About 110 years ago, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants,” which certainly is true of go...

HARRISBURG — It’s time to sound the alarm on early literacy in Pennsylvania. Almost half of fourth-graders across our state are reading below grade le...

Dr. Betty Hayes may not be a name that rings a bell to most, but her concern for public health in southern Elk County in the 1940s went all the way to...

HARRISBURG — One state agency wants Pennsylvanians to better understand what environmental justice means. The Department of Environmental Protection w...

SMETHPORT — Come watch the Fair Queen Candidates perform in the Fair Queen Competition on the Fran De Lancey Mini-Stage at 6 p.m. Friday, after which ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — My colleague Nicole Russell recently wrote that Republicans turned hard-core MAGA Trump voters are to blame for the persiste...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Before we address the hypocrisy, confusion, and posturing associated with yet another NFL policy, let’s understand that no innoce...

Mike Pence, after about seven years of campaigning with Donald Trump, serving with Trump, and showing as much deference as could possibly be expected ...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — He was found guilty. He was deemed eligible for capital punishment. He was sentenced to death. Whether or not he will die feels irr...

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Deshaun Watson received a warm greeting from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, embraced Aaron Rodgers and was all smiles at the Hall...

NEW YORK (AP) — Damar Hamlin will expand his efforts to promote charitable giving by supporting a company that allows donors to give to nonprofits imm...

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki aren’t depicted in the movie “Oppenheimer,” but they haunt the film — literally. The eponymous physicist and “f...

The biggest professional sports leagues in the United States have dealt with a smattering of hazing issues over the past decade, ranging from NFL offe...

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee offered U.S. Supreme Court justices an opportunity to salvage their standing with the American people on W...