HERSHEY, Pa. - Pennsylvania officials began notifying more than 250 state employees Monday that they are losing their jobs, as a stubborn budget stalemate driven by the recession and partisanship threatened to exact a higher toll. More...
The director for Fulton/ Franklin counties drug and alcohol program pitched some new ideas to the Fulton County commissioners Tuesday with hopes of someday establishing a community integration or after-care center within the county to lend assistan More...
The Fulton County Community Christian School in Needmore welcomed its very first female administrator earlier this month with the selection of Cheryl Jenkins as its newest principal. More...
PennDOT District 9 announced last Thursday that the Route 30 resurfacing project in Brush Creek Township, Fulton County, that was financed with federal funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) has been completed more than two mo More...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - A new state law is in place that sets up a special commission to review the juvenile justice corruption scandal in northeastern Pennsylvania in which two judges have pleaded guilty. Gov. More...
As school bells get ready to ring again locally. The Fulton County Area Vocational Technical School (FCAVTS) anticipates greeting students for the 2009-2010 school year. More...
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - A central Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 41/2 to 10 years in state prison in a December 2007 crash that killed a friend. Lancaster County Judge James P. More...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ A Pennsylvania State Trooper is being hailed a hero after delivering a baby on the side of Interstate 95 near the Philadelphia International Airport exit. More...
Fulton County Senior Center lunch menu for the week is as follows: Monday: meatball stroganoff, peas and carrots, noodles, peaches, wheat bread. Tuesday: turkey with gravy, mashed potatoes, lima beans, orange, wheat bread. More...
Ray and Ann Meyer of Warfordsburg are pleased to announce the marriage of their son, Matthew, to Joy Miller of Glens Falls, N.Y. The bride is the daughter of George and Julie Miller of Glens Falls, N.Y. More...
GREENCASTLE MARKET August 3 Slaughter steers: high choice and prime 2-3, 1108-1446 lbs., $84.75 to $87; choice 2-3, 1230- 1534 lbs., $81.25 to $85.75; couple 1568-1670 lbs. More...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Gov. Ed Rendell's annual February budget address has proven to be a reliable indicator of where he hopes to take the state. More...
With the influenza season perhaps just weeks away, Fulton County Medical Center is offering advice on prevention methods that can, hopefully, help to avoid the flu. More...
K&M Dri-Lay Masonry Inc. of Waynesboro puts down pavers at the entrance of the newly renovated Fulton County Library on North Second Street late Tuesday morning. More...
Amendment provides $350 million for milk price supports
The Senate last week voted 60 to 37 for an amendment to provide an extra $350 million for milk price supports to increase government purchases of surplus dairy products. Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) cosponsored the measure introduced by Sen. More...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - About 77,000 Pennsylvania state workers will finally be paid and billions of dollars become available for welfare checks under a partial budget bill Gov. Ed Rendell signed into law Wednesday. More...
SOUDERTON, Pa. (AP) - A month after embarking on a oneman, 3,000-mile "Bike Race Across America'' to Seattle, Doug "Dutch'' Moyer was cooling his heels in Hawaii. "I'm just chilling out. I'm going to check out Pearl Harbor. More...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Police have identified a jogger killed by a falling tree branch in a Philadelphia park as 23-yearold Mary Katherine Ladany of the Roxborough section of the city. More...
Philadelphia's police department is investigating why an officer used his police car's computer to run a criminal background check on President Barack Obama. More...
Fifty-two teenagers from across the state have been invited to learn about state police operations at the Commissioner's Honor Camp next week at the State Police Academy in Hershey, Commissioner Frank E. Pawlowski announced Tuesday. More...
PITTSBURGH (AP) - The man who carried out a massacre in a women's aerobics class had been questioned a week earlier by police because he matched the description of a man seen pulling what appeared to be a grenade from a computer bag, authorities sa More...
Kenny (left) and Keith Doyle of McConnellsburg work very hard to repair the steps to the front entrance of the alumni community building formerly known as the old MHS building. More...
READING, Pa. (AP) _ A man who police say set his ex-girlfriend on fire in her Reading home in June has been charged with murder now that the woman has died of her injuries. More...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ Despite a 20-year career in biochemistry, Trevor Selwood recently found his appreciation for science being overshadowed by the constant uncertainty of research funding _ so much so that he began looking at alternative careers. More...
HONESDALE, Pennsylvania (AP) _ A prosecutor says he may seek the death penalty against the son of a Metropolitan Opera star who is accused of sexually assaulting and murdering a camp counselor 18 years ago. More...
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