Local News, News
May 09, 2025
DEAR RUSTY: Does everyone need to sign up for Medicare Part A, even if you are ex-military? Or only on Medicaid, regardless of whether you are eligibl...
Local News, News
May 02, 2025
ASK RUSTY: I am writing to ask for your advice on when I should sign up or enroll in a Medicare Plan. I have submitted an early retirement application...
Local News, Nation & World, News, ...
Apr 30, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On April 10, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., introduced the School Meal Modernization and Hunger Elimination Act, legislation that...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 17, 2025
If the federal government wants to keep Medicare and Social Security intact for the next 75 years, it will need an extra $78.2 trillion in cash that i...
Business, Local News, News
Apr 11, 2025
DEAR RUSTY: I am going to be 67 in a few weeks and I plan on working for another year or two. According to Social Security, they count the best 35 yea...
Opinion, Сolumns
Apr 01, 2025
When COVID-19 first tore through our nursing homes five years ago, I’ll never forget seeing the photo Shanrika Nelson, a certified nursing assistant a...
Business, Local News, News
Mar 28, 2025
DEAR RUSTY: My wife and I are collecting Social Security. We both started receiving SS at 62 years old. That said, we get by on a tight budget. A reti...
Nation & World, News
Mar 20, 2025
(TNS) — Several significant policy changes affecting Social Security recipients and applicants get underway this month. One of the changes is designed...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 18, 2025
Every day, more than 400,000 of our fellow Pennsylvanians — our elderly parents, disabled children and chronically ill friends — struggle to find the ...
Business, Local News, News
Mar 14, 2025
DEAR RUSTY: Is there any way I can get out of paying the $185/month I am told will be taken out of my Social Security for Medicare Part B when I turn ...
Local News, News
Feb 26, 2025
SMETHPORT — Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of McKean County is seeking community members willing to advocate for abused and neglected childr...
Business, News
Jan 31, 2025
DEAR RUSTY: If a financially well-off individual had multiple ex-spouses, could it happen that the multiple ex-spouses could each be collecting Social...
Local News, News, PA State News
Jan 28, 2025
HARRISBURG — Nearly five years after the COVID-19 pandemic depressed daycare availability, costs and labor participation are on the rise. This, accord...
Business, Local News, News
Jan 03, 2025
DEAR RUSTY: I'm 72 years old with 20 years of military service. I am retired collecting Social Security, my military pension and state retirement bene...
Opinion, Сolumns
Dec 26, 2024
An estimated 3 million New Yorkers on Medicaid or the state-run Essential Plan don’t have incomes low enough to be using the programs, according to a ...
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...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
The annual Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge (A-100) was held last weekend. It is an event where hikers can choose to hike 100, 75, 50 or 25 miles along...
