Opinion, Сolumns
May 04, 2021
For the second time in two years, a federal judge has faulted the FBI for improperly searching for information about Americans amid the emails, texts ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 29, 2021
On June 14, 2017, a team of Republican lawmakers went to an athletic field in Alexandria, Virginia, to practice for the annual Congressional Baseball ...
Crime
Apr 14, 2021
ERIE — A Smethport man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly impersonating a U.S. Marshal at an accident scene in January. Ernest La...
Local News
Jan 29, 2021
A Harrisburg attorney said Thursday that a state appeals court has just given him the next clue toward hopefully solving the mystery of whether the FB...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 24, 2020
House Democratic leaders are trying to keep the espionage scandal surrounding Intelligence Committee member Rep. Eric Swalwell under tight control. Bu...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 12, 2020
White supremacists now account for the largest share of U.S. domestic terrorism. This is a sobering fact. In September, FBI Director Christopher Wray ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 14, 2020
It was secret, and now it’s public. In December, the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued an 83-page ruling that said the FBI imprope...
Opinion, Сolumns
Sep 11, 2020
The Trump-Russia investigation effectively ended on July 24, 2019, the day special counsel Robert Mueller testified on Capitol Hill. Mueller’s halting...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 20, 2018
James Comey did it, naturally, for the children. Why does anyone in Washington take advantage of the most opportune moment to make a mint off publishi...
News, Round the Square
Apr 17, 2018
WRITERS GROUP: Donald Neal of Bradford tells us his inspiration for this new poem is Colette Roessler, the adult programming and marketing director at...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 10, 2017
Never before has, or presumably again will, a former FBI director say such harsh things about a sitting president of the United States. In his much-an...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 18, 2017
WASHINGTON — So why did the president ask his vice president and attorney general to leave the room? The New York Times reports — and The Washington P...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 13, 2017
WASHINGTON — This was always the main question: Would Donald Trump move beyond mere Twitter abuse and move against institutions that limit his power? ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 28, 2017
The Trump administration is in the throes of one of the greatest self-inflicted distractions of the modern presidency. The latest chapter comes from J...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 22, 2017
WASHINGTON — Watching the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, one might easily find oneself wishing he were president ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 10, 2017
WASHINGTON — When he was Ronald Reagan's secretary of state, George Shultz was once asked about the CIA's disavowal of involvement in a mysterious rec...
Local News, News, Online Features
Feb 21, 2017
The U.S. Forest Service offices in the Allegheny National Forest all closed today due to an “unsubstantiated phone threat,” said Jason Kirchner, publi...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 17, 2017
WASHINGTON — Republicans can argue until their last breath that Trump objectors are sore losers, but isn't more at stake than "mere politics"? This ph...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 04, 2016
WASHINGTON — Rule of thumb for a presidential campaign where the two candidates have the highest unfavorable ratings in the history of polling: If you...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 02, 2016
WASHINGTON — The last place — and I do mean the very last place — any candidate wants to be is in the frame with Anthony Weiner. This is especially tr...
PA State News
June 15, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
Local Sports, Sports
June 14, 2025
(TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
