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Erie News Now and Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania will host the 24th Annual Erie News Now Food Drive on Wednesday at 13 locations t...

ST. MARYS — The seventh annual Survivor of Suicide Loss event, sponsored by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and Dickinson Center Inc., ...

HARRISBURG — Human trafficking is the second largest business in the world and projected to become the number one business within the world in the nex...

The Guidance Center held its annual meeting on Monday at The Bradford Club. Board President, Rev. Rob Klouw thanked board members and staff present fo...

The CARE for Children Board of Directors will host a reception as part of their annual meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1 at the Bradford Club. During...

September was National Suicide Prevention Month, and its purpose is to provide awareness and information about a subject that is often considered to b...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Roughly every 11 minutes, someone in the United States takes their own life. Let me put that in better perspective. In the time it t...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that suicide is a serious public health problem that can have lasting harmful effects on indiv...

ST. MARYS — In August, Frank Straub and Jude Vavala of Straub and Vavala Development and Realty LLC donated a building located at 18 Railroad Street t...

HARRISBURG — The Wolf Administration Monday joined Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful representatives to announce the launch of the statewide anti-litter cam...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The three leadingPennsylvania Democratic Senatecandidates answered questions Monday about gun-violence prevention in a city exper...

POISON: National Poison Prevention Week starts on Sunday, and Safe Kids Pennsylvania is reminding people that medicine can be hazardous to children. H...

Depression and anxiety don’t discriminate. They don’t care about beauty. They don’t care about money. They don’t care about fame. They don’t care how ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson said Tuesday that FEMA’s Fire Prevention and Safety Grant Program is accepting applications. The Fire Prevention...

The annual meeting of the CARE for Children Board of Directors was held Thursday via a Zoom teleconference. Current Board President Norm Strotman welc...

UPPER ST. CLAIR (TNS) — Competing against chants from counter-protesters outside the office of a local Republican state lawmaker, gun safety advocates...

During September, National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, the site-based psychiatric rehabilitation staff at Dickinson Center Inc. (DCI) is joini...

#ADDICTION AWARENESS: 1 in 3 Pennsylvanians say influencers are strong advocates for addiction awareness, and three out of four parents would prefer t...

GREENSBURG — Two agencies have teamed up to reduce the number of cigarette butts carelessly discarded in Pennsylvania State Parks, and are planning to...

(Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series sharing the findings of a June 2021 study on suicide in rural Pennsylvania). A study, publishe...