Derry Township native Nettie Clawson, 25, took an 11- month trip to 11 countries over the past year through the Adventures in Missions’World Race program. The group left in October 2017 and returned Aug. 27. More...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on the House Oversight and Judiciary committees say their Republican counterparts have cherry-picked from Justice Department documents to promote a misleading narrative about the closed-door questioning of a senior J More...
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — The longest-serving U.S. district judge in the nation’s history has died. Judge William Nealon of Scranton, Pennsylvania, died Thursday. He was 95. President John F. More...
MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. (AP) — A couple who raised more than $400,000 for a homeless man after he used his last $20 to fill up the gas tank of a stranded motorist in Philadelphia must now turn over what’s left of the cash. More...
Nature and social media often aren’t a good combination. There are places in nature where the seemingly innocuous act of taking a selfie can have unforeseen — even disastrous — results. More...
I’ve done a lot of risky things in my life. I’ve paraglided over the Tetons, Wyoming visible far beneath my feet. I’ve paddled Class V rapids in West Virginia, nearly drowning when I fell overboard. More...
The Westmoreland County Coroner’s Office reports that Ryan J. Winter, 29, of Plum Borough, was killed in a one-vehicle motorcycle accident at 2:54 a.m. Friday, Aug. 31, at the intersection of Route 130 and Hillview Road in Penn Township. More...
GLEN MILLS, Pa. (AP) — Philadelphia has stopped sending children who’ve committed crimes to a suburban reform school and are investigating allegations that a staffer choked and body-slammed a 17-year-old boy. More...
PITTSBURGH — Greater Latrobe managed a few big plays to take an early lead Friday over Penn Hills at Yuhas-McGinley Stadium, but quarterback Hollis Mathis and the host Indians rattled off 44 straight points on their way to a 50-13 WPIAL Class 5 More...
FREEPORT — The Derry Area football team has been involved in big-time, biggame situations before. That’s why head coach Tim Sweeney didn’t panic when it didn’t look like anything could go right for his Trojans during the More...
Danish director Michael Noer’s “Papillon” remake, adapted from both Henri Charriere’s autobiography and the 1973 Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman film, is a sumptuous-looking but slowmoving prison drama that at times will have More...
In the teen sci-fi thriller “Kin,” a shy 14-year-old kid finds unearthly powers in the vacant warehouses of Detroit — an intriguing if standard young-adult premise that dissolves before your eyes in this inept and erratic directoria More...
