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Domestic violence impacts millions of people each year, #Every1KnowsSome1, but it can be prevented. It requires a collective voice and the power of in...

RIDGWAY — Citizens Against Physical Sexual and Emotional Abuse (CAPSEA) announced Monday that the nonprofit will be partnering with House to Home to b...

ST LOUIS, Mo. — Purina and the nonprofit RedRover have awarded five Purple Leash Project grants to help local domestic violence shelters make pet-frie...

RIDGWAY — Each year, advocates, survivors and supporters recognize October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM). This October, Ridgway-based no...

When the McKean County Relay for Life kicks off at 10 a.m. Saturday in Veterans Square it will represent the first time the event has been held in dow...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., are working together to help victims of sexual assault. The bipar...

As an NFL player, James Conner had a decision to make like the rest of his union brethren: opt in or opt out of the 2020 season. As a cancer survivor,...

ERIE — After a brief hiatus, the Diocese of Erie has announced it will return to its work with the Independent Survivors’ Reparation Program (ISRP) es...

The 2020 Relay for Life has been canceled. The announcement was posted on the event page on social media over the weekend. “It is with heavy hearts th...

WASHINGTON — On Monday, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., announced that M’kiyah Martin will be his guest to the President’s State of the Union Address toda...

Courage2Heal, a sexual assault survivors’ group started by Bradford natives, will be holding a support meeting Oct. 9 at Bradford Area Public Library....

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary will hold a hearing on Oct. 2 to listen to testimony regarding the numerous statute of limitation (SOL)...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — For the third year in a row, scholarships from the Pink Pumpkin Project organization were awarded to deserving high school students w...

Standing together, listening, supporting and surviving — those were the messages sent out Saturday evening at St. Bernard School at the first “Call to...

Survivors of childhood sexual abuse stand together figuratively. And on May 18 in Bradford, they will be standing together literally as well. Clergy a...

PORTVILLE, N.Y. — When Lynn Anzivine and Paula Ketchner received an $18,000 check on behalf of the Pink Pumpkin Project from the Portville American Le...

HISTORY: One of our frequent commenters, who signs typewritten postcards only as “An Era Reader,” sends us some remarkable things. The most recent not...

Hope. That’s what Bradford native Jim VanSickle took away from the Vatican’s clergy abuse summit he attended last week in Rome. “This trip has become ...

Clergy abuse survivor Jim VanSickle has a message to deliver, and he’s taking it to the Vatican next week. VanSickle, a Bradford native who suffered a...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., cosponsored legislation introduced by Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., ensuring newborn infants who survive an attemp...