Editorials
Dec 14, 2022
In a rare bit of good news out of the U.S. Supreme Court, there are signs that three of the court’s six conservatives are poised to join its three lib...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jul 13, 2021
Until the state Legislature finally passed a strong law in 2008 to regulate dog-breeding and kennels, Pennsylvania was known as “the puppy mill capita...
Editorials
Jun 29, 2021
You’re cruising down the interstate. Maybe you’re going a little bit faster than you should be. Maybe not. But if you catch a glimpse of a state troop...
Jun 15, 2021
The Democrats’ sprawling voting rights bill, known on Capitol Hill as HR 1, is dead. Officially, the bill is still clinging to life. But Sen. Joe Manc...
Local News
Jan 04, 2020
PITTSBURGH (TNS) — After being in office for about a year, state Rep. Valerie Gaydos, R-Allegheny, thinks there might be a few too many seats in the c...
Local News, News, Online Features
Mar 18, 2019
Turn on the news, browse through social media or spend some time in the community and one has a good chance of hearing discussion regarding the latest...
Local News, News
Mar 03, 2017
LITTLE VALLEY, N.Y. —Call it the call center that broke the camel’s back. Cattaraugus County Legislator Joseph Snyder, R-Ischua, cited the recent anno...
News, Top Stories, World
Jan 03, 2016
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three people, including a minor, were being held Sunday in the slaying of a newly inaugurated mayor in a gang-troubled central Mexi...
Nation, News
Dec 13, 2015
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in which a mentally troubled young man killed 26 children and educators, ser...
Nation, News
Nov 30, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted Monday in a $5 million corruption case that took down one of New York's mos...
Nation, News
Nov 10, 2015
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — When cotton balls were scattered outside the black culture center at the University of Missouri's flagship campus in 2010 in a cl...
Nation, News
Nov 03, 2015
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two Michigan lawmakers who were forced from office over an extramarital affair and a convoluted cover-up scheme are running Tues...
Nation, News
Oct 27, 2015
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's pooches may now venture onto restaurant patios under a new state law allowing restaurants to open outdoor dining areas ...
Nation, News
Oct 26, 2015
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The University of Mississippi quietly removed the state flag with its Confederate battle emblem from its place of honor on campu...
Nation, News, Top Stories
Oct 25, 2015
HOUSTON (AP) — After a drawn-out showdown between Houston's popular lesbian mayor and a coalition of conservative pastors, voters in the nation's four...
Nation, News
Oct 24, 2015
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The man charged in the freeway killing of a 4-year-old girl in New Mexico had been previously arrested on aggravated battery,...
Nation, News
Oct 03, 2015
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A new proposal seeks a statewide election on removing the Confederate battle emblem from the Mississippi flag. But it could be y...
Nation, News
Sep 30, 2015
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A ranking Republican lawmaker abruptly resigned from the Indiana House after sending a text message apology for "anything offensiv...
Nation, News
Sep 26, 2015
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, a longtime Democrat, says she is switching to the Republican Party because she feels abandoned by Dem...
Nation, News
Sep 12, 2015
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers gave final approval Friday to a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to legally end their live...
PA State News
June 15, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
Local Sports, Sports
June 14, 2025
(TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
