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HARRISBURG — Teacher compensation across Pennsylvania grew over the past decade, despite claims from officials that low salaries and high stress scare...

How fitting that the Congressional Budget Office released its long-term fiscal projections Wednesday, the same day that President Joe Biden began his ...

In honor of the nation’s 247th birthday, here are some quotations about patriotism and citizenship to consider over the holiday with our wishes for a ...

BOSTON (TNS) — The campaign against affirmative action has reduced the complicated process of college admissions to a simple and highly inaccurate sou...

Legislative gerrymandering, devising electoral districts to ensure certain outcomes, is the most reliable way to help produce and preserve minority ru...

The rapidly expanding landscape of nonprofit, donor-backed collectives paying college athletes to promote charities has been hit with a potentially se...

Salamanca, N.Y. — fireworks will be held at dusk Sunday between 9 and 10 p.m. at the Seneca Allegany Resort and Casino. There will not be public viewi...

HARRISBURG — Republicans who control Pennsylvania’s Senate passed spending legislation hours ahead of Saturday’s start of a new fiscal year, but they ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — When scientists announced at a conference last week that they had created synthetic human embryos, it felt like something from Brave ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s affirmative action case achieved instant legendary status in certain quarters. Vice Pre...

The Supreme Court has spoken, invalidating racial preferences in college admissions as was widely anticipated. The six-justice conservative majority d...

WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. — Northeast Grocery, Inc. (NGI), the parent company of Tops Friendly Markets and Price Chopper/Market 32, has named John Persons a...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Pennsylvania will receive nearly $1.2 billion in federal funding to establish or improve high-speed internet service in unserve...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Cornerback Isaiah Rodgers Sr. lost the biggest bet of his life Thursday. He was waived by the Indianapolis Colts shortly after the...

HARRISBURG — The Department of the Auditor General released audits of eight county children and youth services agencies during the second quarter, Aud...

FOURTH Continued. This year, America celebrates its 247th birthday as an independent nation, after securing that independence by winning the Revolutio...

In the eighth annual Varischetti All-Star game, the Allegheny Mountain League will look to get back-to-back victories and continue its reign of domina...

HARRISBURG — The American Red Cross is teaming up with Penn State for the annual Bleed Blue campaign to collect more than 5,800 units of blood for pat...

SMETHPORT — Calling all leaders — What’s your call to courage? Where do you want to show up braver in life? The Seneca Highlands Intermediate Unit is ...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — It used to be that you preferred the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team playing Duquesne and Fordham as often as it did. Th...