A state House committee plans to consider two bills from opposite sides of the aisle to abolish the state death penalty next week. The Judiciary Committee is scheduled to meet Monday with HB99 ...

The prothonotary office in the Blair County Courthouse has reopened on the first floor, where cubicles with drawers and ...

Rising prices across a broad spectrum of goods and services have hit everyone hard, including farmers, who supply consumers ...

Lawmakers are renewing a push to end the practice of Pennsylvania counties diverting Social Security benefits owed to children in foster care into their own budgets, after new federal directives ...

President Donald Trump said Thursday he has ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” small Iranian boats that deploy ...

President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana ...

An $81 billion Warner-Paramount mega merger has received shareholders’ stamp of approval, propelling a deal that could vastly ...

Pope Leo XIV urged the United States and Iran to return to talks to end the war Thursday and condemned capital punishment, in a wide-ranging press conference en route home from his trip to Africa. Leo ...

The Iran war’s most tangible and immediate effect for many people outside the Middle East has been spiking gasoline prices. But crude oil isn’t just refined as fuel. Petrochemicals derived from oil ...

Twelve school districts named as defendants in a recent religious discrimination lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Johnstown by Bishop McCort Academy have agreed to extend the deadline for ...

Sheetz became the first convenience chain to join the U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Challenge, a voluntary initiative in which participating organizations commit to reducing energy ...

I live in a 55-plus community and have met many people and made lots of friends since moving in here. I am not a prude, but I find it very disturbing how the F-bomb and swearing is so prevalent in ...