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PITTSBURGH (TNS) — For people under the age of 50 or 60, a few minutes of heart flutters might seem like a fluke. Too much caffeine, stress, minor deh...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Before Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in New York got underway, pundits predicted that the proceedings could be a media bonanza fo...

Several national pollsters have concluded that Donald Trump is leading in Pennsylvania over Joe Biden. The RealClearPolitics polling average as of Apr...

BRISTOL, Va. (TNS) — In the small Appalachian city of Bristol, City Council member Neal Osborne left a meeting on the morning of Jan. 3 and rushed him...

By most standard economic measures, President Joe Biden has presided over a strong economy. In terms of growth, job creation, wage gains and employmen...

NEW YORK — No sport reveres statistics more than baseball, and no statistic could have been more alarming for the sport than this one: In 2017, the Sp...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Faced with gaping vacancies in its police force and concerns about public safety, the Philadelphia Police Department had to think ...

PINK : There’s a pink wave coming, says the Center for Rural Pennsylvania. What’s that mean? By the year 2050, the number of women in over half of the...

BATAVIA, N.Y. — Drayden Norton of Shinglehouse, Pa., was among 243 students from Genesee Community College, including all six campus locations in Bata...

We’ve long been warned about robots taking our jobs, but now they‘re coming for our opinions as well. Caller ID, mobile phones, and cord-cutters have ...

The Michigan Democratic and Republican primaries took place Tuesday. The Democratic contest is interesting not because any candidate had a chance of t...

HARRISBURG — There was a time when black bear hunting occupied a faithful, but small, niche in Pennsylvania’s hunting calendar. That’s true no more. T...

OLEAN, N.Y. — The Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation’s scholarship process for 2024 will open to applications from area students Feb. 1. Students...

(TNS) — In 2023, hunters in Pennsylvania took the lowest number of black bears since 2007. Nevertheless, the annual harvests through regulated hunting...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Game Commission is asking for the public’s help finding turkey flocks to trap for ongoing turkey projects. Beginning nex...

Another population update from the U.S. Census Bureau confirms a long-running trend: Pennsylvania continues to shrink. The bureau noted that American ...

Cheryl Geidner figured council members in Volant, a tiny borough north of Pittsburgh, would adopt a preliminary year-end budget despite no discussions...

MINOR INJURIES, 4-VEHICLE ACCIDENT FRIDAY Foster Township Police report suspected minor injuries following a Friday evening four-vehicle accident on D...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The latest Consumer Price Index report showed inflation slowing in October, due in part to a supposed 34% drop in the cost of healt...

The most recent cohort of nursing graduates from SUNY Jamestown Community College have attained a 100% pass rate on the National Council Licensure Exa...