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HARRISBURG (AP) — A Pennsylvania state lawmaker submitted his resignation letter Wednesday, a week after a union lobbyist accused him by name of havin...

Gov. Josh Shapiro recently touted an “open for business” outlook and promised to cooperate with the private sector, beginning right here in the Pittsb...

“I became, at ten years old, a little labouring hind in the service of Murdstone and Grinby.” Thus relates David Copperfield in the Charles Dickens no...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hasn’t announced that he’s running for president, but he’s doing a convincing job of acting like a candidate. DeSantis, who ...

PENN. March 4 is recognized as Holy Experiment Day and is a day meant to encourage communities to be more open-minded and unpredicted — especially con...

Many state lawmakers long ago abandoned their constitutional duty to preserve the environment by instead representing the natural gas industry. Now, a...

Before Tuesday, no woman ever had been speaker of the state House in Pennsylvania. Whether dating to William Penn presiding over the first colonial as...

HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania lobbyist on Wednesday named the Democratic state representative who she says sexually harassed her four years ago, going p...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Kurt Busch might have received a proper sendoff this weekend in Las Vegas, where his hometown track treated him cruelly ove...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Aaron Straus, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s new creative engineering coordinator, will tell you he has the coolest job on...

“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams continued to see his reach shrink Monday as dozens of newspapers and a major comic strip platform said they would no lon...

History isn’t kind to one-term presidents, at least in the short run. For most of the last 40 years, Jimmy Carter’s presidency has been widely remembe...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — With the start of the 2024 primaries less than a year away, it really is time to be honest, and to come to terms with the former p...

HARRISBURG — The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service announces that sign up is now underway for a new project that w...

Talk about a kid who had a great story when his teachers asked him what he did over Super Bowl weekend. What unfolded for 12-year-old Colt Matz, a sev...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Area wildlife enthusiast, photographer and photography consultant Dan Jordan is displaying some of his favorite moments in time captured...

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized the federal response to the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, as a “betrayal...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — From the school colors to the values of compassion, wisdom and integrity, St. Bonaventure University’s Franciscan roots are di...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — It’s back! The Allegany Old Home Days carnival will be on this year. After two years of no Old Home Days celebration in 2020 and 2021...

CHICAGO (TNS) — With the recent Chicago Auto Show, talk of electric cars has kicked into high gear. It’s hard to turn on a radio or television and not...