Nation
Jun 23, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Thursday that Americans have a right to carry guns in public, a major expansion of gun rights. The justices’ ...
News
Jun 23, 2022
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Pat Toomey, R-Pa., commended the Senate Finance Committee for advancing three of his bills as part of the Enhancing American...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 20, 2022
Given the state’s political structure, it’s natural to think of the Legislature in terms of the major political parties. But that’s just part of the s...
News
Jun 18, 2022
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has denied the appeal of convicted sexually violent predator Gage Ortiz-Rodriquez, saying the evidence presented in Mc...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 11, 2022
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Fireworks should have been set off at the stateCapitolon Wednesday to celebrate state legislators finally acknowledging they fouled ...
Jun 10, 2022
HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania state lawmakers are advancing proposed new limits on fireworks in response to growing complaints after a 5-year-old sta...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jun 02, 2022
It should be very easy for state lawmakers to pass a law barring monied interests from giving the legislators what they euphemistically describe as "g...
May 27, 2022
WASHINGTON — Thursday, Senators Toomey and Bennet introduced legislation to amend the federal tax code in order to allow law enforcement officers the ...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 13, 2022
Think about it this way: If Justice Samuel Alito gets his way and the Trumpist Supreme Court majority voids Roe v. Wade, many states will be forced to...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 13, 2022
There was something ridiculous about the half-a-dozen protestors in “Handmaid’s Tale” costumes showing up at Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s...
News
May 13, 2022
Rain or shine, Saturday morning, bring your sign as women (and the men who support them) across the country march in solidarity for women’s rights. A ...
News, PA State News
May 03, 2022
HARRISBURG — With the one-year countdown having begun for the federal enforcement of REAL ID for commercial domestic air travel and other federal purp...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 01, 2022
If the FBI or another law enforcement agency wants to tap a cellphone, monitor or other digital communications, or track someone through his digital d...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 22, 2022
State Sen. John Yudichak, an independent from Swoyersville, seems somewhat confused about government transparency. He recently said that he respects t...
News, PA State News
Apr 18, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — When Pennsylvania House Republicans proposed sweeping changes last year to the state’s 2019 election law, Rep. Seth Grove warned Go...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 16, 2022
Nearly 20 years ago, when state Sen.Ed Helfrickwas asked why he thought it was appropriate to spend more than $600 of public money every month for his...
News, PA State News
Apr 16, 2022
STROUDSBURG — At the Pocono Family YMCA Thursday, Governor Tom Wolf was joined by Representative Maureen Madden to call on Pennsylvania’s Republican-l...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 11, 2022
Frank Burns gets it! Not the bumbling doctor from MASH, but the Democratic state representative from Cambria County. Just like anyone else who has sou...
News, PA State News
Mar 29, 2022
HARRISBURG — The remnants of a federal lawsuit by Republicans challenging Pennsylvania’s new congressional districts were dropped Tuesday, three weeks...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 29, 2022
Lack of transparency usually is an element of bad governance, so it’s hardly surprising that the beleaguered Pennsylvania Public School Employees Reti...
Round the Square
August 28, 2025
FACTS: Ready for some odd facts? The website today.com has a lot of them, and they are pretty neat. For example, there were active volcanoes on the mo...
Lifestyles
August 28, 2025
Dear Heloise: My wife and I read your hints daily, and you have some great ones! Here is something that we do to speed up the process of unloading the...
Lifestyles
August 28, 2025
DEAR ABBY: My daughter, "Violet," lives about two hours away. She and her mother (my wife) do not get along. Violet was always a rebellious, independe...
Local News
UWBA launches 2025 campaign
August 28, 2025
The United Way of the Bradford Area announced the kickoff of its 2025 Annual Campaign, marking a historic milestone: the organization’s 100th year of ...
Baseball, National Sports
August 27, 2025
(TNS) —This is simple, really: Great starting pitching is akin to great quarterbacking in the sense that if you have it, you have a chance. You're clo...
National Sports
August 27, 2025
(TNS) —The Pittsburgh Penguins announced an organizational coaching hire Wednesday, naming Evan McFeeters to a position entitled "roving minor league ...
