The merger between Harrisburg-based Graystone Bank and The First National Bank of Greencastle was finalized Tuesday, and bank officials wasted no time getting the new financial institution's name, "Tower Bank, A Division of Graystone Tower Bank," on
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TOBYHANNA, Pa. (AP) - Officials in a northeastern Pennsylvania school district are trying to find the cause of an illness that has affected some 200 elementary school pupils. More...
Next town meeting set for Thursday, April 2, at Hustontown Senior Center
By Chanin Rotz-Mountz STAFF WRITER
The Fulton County commissioners have tentative plans to sit down with area broadband service providers to determine the cost and possibility of expanding high-speed services throughout the county. More...
PennDOT announced last Thursday the bid results for the Route 484 South Warfordsburg Bridge rehabilitation project in Bethel Township, Fulton County. Cottle's Asphalt Maintenance Inc. More...
By Ron Todt ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The manufacturer of a pesticide blamed by conservationists for the poisoning deaths of lions and other animals in Kenya says it is taking "aggressive action'' to prevent misuse of the product, halting sales to the country and t More...
BENSALEM, Pa. (AP) - A suburban Philadelphia gun club is fighting a citation for shooting pigeons on the banks of the Delaware River. More...
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The Hancock Arts Council announced Monday that boating and canal enthusiasts should get ready to weigh anchor because the Hancock Barge Bash is back. More...
By Petrer Jackson ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - State officials made mistakes that undermined a plan to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike to a private company, according to the findings of an independent study released Tuesday. More...
WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) - A coroner is having experts examine a human skull found by children playing in a yard in southwestern Pennsylvania. More...
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Dr. Paul Waldau, a leading scholar in the emerging field of human-animal studies, will deliver the keynote lecture during the 2009 Orr Forum on Religion - Why Animals Matter: Religion, Animals and Ethics - on April 20. More...
USDA extending buy-in waiver for those impacted by natural disasters
The recently approved American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) allows producers to become eligible for 2008 disaster assistance authorized by the 2008 Farm Bill even if they did not previously obtain otherwise statutorily required crop More...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - A 20-year-old student at Penn State University is being treated for what school health officials call a probable case of bacterial meningitis. More...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Fire officials say two women and a young girl have died as a result of a fast-moving row house fire that broke out just after midnight in North Philadelphia. More...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thirty members of Congress are calling for a delay on new rules that are intended to keep mad-cow disease out of the food supply but have created problems in disposing of dead cattle. More...
The following names were drawn by the President Judge and Fulton County Jury Commissioners for the April session of combined court to be held in the said county on the 27th day of April 2009, at 10:00 a.m. More...
CLAY TOWNSHIP, Pa.(AP) - Lancaster County officials say a tornado could have cause the destruction to five trailer homes in Clay Township. More...
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) - A retired police chief says he was robbed by "probably the dumbest criminal in Pennsylvania'' at a police officers' convention attended by 300 narcotics officers. More...
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