SELINSGROVE — Nearly 500 students graduated from Susquehanna University on Saturday hearing a message that the world needs them.
LEWISBURG — A rainy Saturday hosted a small gathering of volunteers for work at Turtle Creek Park in East Buffalo Township.
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HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s public schools were short by 2,156 classroom teachers in October and an independent study of new state data shows more than half of all school districts had shortages considered “severe” or “extremely severe.”
SELINSGROVE — Dauntless Hook & Ladder's annual Spring Fling Gun Raffle and Music Fest will be held today.
Pennsylvania lawmakers are entering budget negotiations with a roughly $14 billion surplus. So far, they have different priorities for using it.
SUNBURY — Shikellamy High School students put away the pens and paper and got the chance to go outside and enjoy the annual end-of-the-year Fun Fair Day on Friday.
MOUNT CARMEL — A winning Pennsylvania Game of Life scratch-off was sold at Friendly Choice Food Mart, 11639 East State Road drive 61, according to the Pennsylvania Lottery.
LEWIS TOWNSHIP — A Middleburg woman allegedly strangled another woman after arguing about a dog on May 12, according to state police in Milton.
MIFFLINBURG — A Millmont man allegedly watched pornography with a pre-teen girl, showed her sex toys and asked her if she wanted to have sex, according to state police in Milton.
SUNBURY — Two Shikellamy School District board directors say candidates for the open varsity girl's basketball coach position are more than qualified, and their no vote Tuesday night on hiring a coach was directed at the hiring process, not any person.
While disclosures filed by state government officials are published online, judges’ forms aren’t. The public must ask for copies — provided they know where to go for that information.
MONTANDON — Each year in May the Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit (CSIU) honors regional high school students for their contributions to the arts.
DANVILLE — Starting Monday, Geisinger’s outpatient behavioral health services will be offered at a new location in the Geisinger Hughes Center South building at 9 Stearns Lane in Danville. The Hughes Center building is near Geisinger Healthplex Woodbine, and patients should use Entrance A wh…
DANVILLE — Community members will have the opportunity to learn about the Pennsylvania National Guard at an event in Danville this weekend.
It never ceases to amaze me how thoughtless some people can be. Think about it: If a person has the strength to carry in a bottle of soda, or perhaps a filled bait container, shouldn’y they also have the ability to carry it out once it is empty?
WILLIAMSPORT — Able to navigate a running surface featuring sizable puddles everywhere one looked, Camryn Pyle wasn’t quite ready to declare herself a “mudder” — particularly since the Midd-West senior doesn’t run on grass.
WILLIAMSPORT — Saturday’s District 4 meet was a complete 180 for Mount Carmel senior Xavier Diaz compared to last season.
Evan Dagle tries to squeeze as much as he can out of everything he does, whether it is as an all-league soccer player, state qualifier in track & field, in the classroom, or across his numerous community service projects.
France’s Interior Minister says that a man who was shot and killed by police after a suspected arson attack on a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen was an Algerian national who’d sought medical treatment in France and wasn’t flagged as a suspected extremist. The minister praised the 25-…
WEST LAFAYETTE — In 2019, a group of Purdue faculty members and students met with university president Mung Chiang in his office to share their ideas for developing technology that would enable electric vehicles to charge while in motion.
Donald Trump’s lawyers have sought to portray the star prosecution witness in his hush money trial as a serial fabulist who is bent on seeing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee behind bars. During hours of cross-examination on Thursday, defense attorney Todd Blanche pressed form…
The Pentagon says that humanitarian aid will soon begin flowing onto the Gaza shore through the new pier that was anchored to the beach overnight and will reach those in need almost immediately. Trucks will drive the aid into the Palestinian enclave, besieged over seven months of intense fig…
U.S. Census Bureau estimates show America's Northeast and Midwest cities are rebounding slightly from years of population drops, highlighted by modest growth in Detroit after decades of declines. Government figures released Thursday show Detroit saw its population grow for the first time in …
Israel’s defense minister says the military will send more troops into Rafah, a city along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, as fighting also rages in northern Gaza, where Hamas has regrouped. South Africa is seeking emergency measures at the U.N.’s top court to halt Israel’s escalating off…
