HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The new year will usher in the bitcoin-friendly administration of President-elect Donald Trump and an expanding lobbying effort in statehouses that, together, could push states ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Drone-detecting devices deployed in New Jersey in the past week have found “little to no evidence” of anything nefarious or threatening, Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday as calls grew...

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced the biggest test of his political career after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, long one of his most powerful and loyal ministers, resign...

• Preston Lee Thomas, 20, of Washington was charged with fleeing or attempting to elude police, endangering welfare of children, two counts of recklessly endangering another person, two counts of DUI,...

After the busy Black Friday holiday weekend, Kristen Tarnol, owner of Emerald City Gifts in Studio City, California, is already asking her supplier to send more more fuzzy alpaca scarves and warm slip...

NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air assertion that the...

• Load the Ladder event, Monessen Volunteer Fire Department in conjunction with Monessen Family Center doing toy drive for Christmas, parking lot of the downtown fire station, 239 Donner Ave., 6 to 9 ...

DEAR ABBY: Several members of my husband’s family let us down badly by not attending our daughter’s wedding. They had various work and other family obligations near the date of our event. “Save the Da...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday thanked deep-pocketed Democratic donors who raised record sums in last month’s election loss to President-elect Donald ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Bob Fernandez, a 100-year-old survivor of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, died shortly after deteriorating health prompted him to skip a trip to Hawaii to attend last week’s reme...

Karl Weigand conducts the event at Central Volunteer Fire Station in Elizabeth Township. For the ninth year, Elizabeth Township resident Karl Weigand is giving back to his community and the surroundin...

Meetings in local government next week Every week, the Mon Valley Independent editorial staff will share upcoming government meetings around the Mid-Mon Valley. If there’s an item or other event of pu...

• Sunday—no paper. • The Washington Township Volunteer Fire Department was on the verge of bankruptcy until state Rep. Peter J. Daley came to its rescue. Daley received word that a $50,000 state Depar...

President Joe Biden has commuted the sentence of a former judge in Northeast Pennsylvania who gained notoriety for a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks. That commuta...

• Brandon C. Barcus, 54, of Perryopolis was charged with terroristic threats and disorderly conduct stemming from an alleged incident Wednesday, court records state. A preliminary hearing before Magis...

DEAR ABBY: My husband is miserable. Five years ago, he was fired from his job of more than 25 years, and the small issues he had with depression, alcohol and smoking have multiplied exponentially. He ...

DEAR HARRIETTE: I have always had a fear of heights, which has made me hesitant to try things that involve being up high. However, one item on my bucket list has been going skydiving in Dubai, and I’m...

• Quran Ali Elton Overton, 44, of Donora was charged with robbery, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, three counts of recklessly endangering another person, firearms not to be carrie...

By LEA SKENE and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press After Luigi Mangione made the difficult decision to undergo spinal surgery last year for chronic back pain, he became a proponent of the proce...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rhonda James was skeptical when her husband ordered a weighted blanket for her online. But five minutes after she wrapped it around her body, she zonked out. “It felt like a really big...