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Era staff claimed five wins in the 2025 Professional Keystone Media Awards, announced Friday by the Pennsylvania News Media Association. Era Managing ...

NEW YORK — An NBC News correspondent who interviewed Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman says an on-air remark she made about him having diff...

I believe I spoke with Eric Boehlert, the conscience and gadfly of American journalism who died last week in a tragic bicycle accident, only once, in ...

There’s an old joke that asks how one gets to Carnegie Hall — the answer, of course, is practice. The same answer might apply when one asks Johnsonbur...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — An unhinged politician. A room full of reporters and photographers. And a .357 Magnum tucked in a manila envelope. These three vola...

SOMERSET (AP) — Officials in a rural western Pennsylvania county say the elected prosecutor’s access to his office and the courthouse has been restric...

In his book, “A Magician Among the Spirits,” Harry Houdini relates the story of the life and career of a sketchy spiritualist named Daniel Dunglas Hom...

It’s the kind of assignment that changes a reporter. On Sept. 11, 2001, Bradford native Emily Longnecker had only been working in the field for about ...

Is there something missing from press coverage of the thousands of unaccompanied children who have illegally crossed the U.S. border from Mexico and a...

When writing and researching articles, reporters rely on two elements. There are the anecdotal incidents that occur. What a crime victim saw, what a p...

I don’t understand the world anymore. Well, that’s not right. That sentence would lead one to believe I ever really “got it.” What I don’t understand ...

In a June 27 article regarding state Sen. Joe Scarnati’s response to a Spotlight PA report printed by The Era, the senator has taken issue with The Er...

Two investigative journalism organizations that have called out Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati on allegations of corruption have the state’...

Several years ago, I was invited to attend a dinner for McKean County’s Foster Parent Appreciation Month. May is the month set aside to honor foster f...

Working as a journalist in a small town is an experience like no other. On Wednesday, I was granted access as a member of the press to the Donald Trum...

NEWS: “Allied Airmen Score Stunning 84-3 Aerial Victory over Axis.” This was the headline of The Era on April 15, 1943. The U.S. was fighting in World...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — Journalist and Virginia Delegate Danica Roem will visit her alma mater April 5, for a public talk on her journey from Bonaventure to ...

“Father into Thy hands I commend my spirit.” Those were the final words that Ralph Crossmire uttered before being jerked into eternal rest by 240 poun...

Earlier this week, Era Associate Editor Marcie Schellhammer questioned the stories journalists choose to cover, citing the hullabaloo some reporters m...

WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Sean Spicer might owe Melissa McCarthy a thank-you note. The actress who mocked Spicer in her "Saturday Night...