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By ED MAHON Spotlight PA Part 1 of 2 Cyndi Compton relived the October day over and over again. Early that morning, her 24-year-old son, Isaiah, stopped by her house in rural Tioga County and woke her...

By Ian Karbal, Pennsylvania Capital-Star June 29, 2026 Last June, Gov. Josh Shapiro made a speech in Berwick, on the border of Luzerne and Columbia counties, to celebrate what he called the “largest p...

By Kevin Hardy, Pennsylvania Capital-Star June 24, 2026 Workers in more than 20 cities and states will see the minimum wage increase next month as local governments continue to raise the wage floor am...

By Emily Scolnick, Pennsylvania Capital-Star June 25, 2026 Emily Scolnick is a 2026 Dow Jones News Fund intern at the Pennsylvania Capital-Star.  Six weeks after Nicole Kutufaris of Philadelphia gave ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — David Clayton-Thomas, the lead singer of Blood, Sweat & Tears, whose husky, highstrung tenor on “Spinning Wheel,” “And When I Die” and other hits helped make the so-called brass rock b...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of th...

WORLD BRIEFLY LA GUAIRA, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans searched for survivors beneath collapsed buildings Thursday and rescue teams raced to northern areas rocked by a pair of powerful earthquakes that...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — To someone who is getting sucked out to sea by a rip current, “Don’t panic!” may be difficult to heed, even if that’s exactly what you should do. But lifeguards say to not only relax ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sees America’s 250th anniversary as a chance to get the country excited again — about Donald Trump. The president is hosting a rally Wednesday on the National ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — As the world tries to curb human-caused climate change and not run dry of water, every online query is increasing our environmental footprint and exacerbating the problem. Artificial...

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by Peter Hall, Pennsylvania Capital-Star June 23, 2026 State lawmakers want to put a cap on how much utility companies can profit from customers, while giving Pennsylvanians a tax cut on electricity. ...

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Hundreds of Indigenous people have testified. They’ve sobbed, cursed and laughed in spite of it all. Many told stories about their time in boarding schools that they’ve kept inside for decades, finall...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two more people in Missouri and Washington state have been arrested in connection with what authorities say was a planned attack targeting President Donald Trump’s UFC cage-fighting ...

By TAMMY WEBBER AND M.K. WILDEMAN Associated Press ONAWAY, Mich. (AP) — Tom and Diane Peterman tried to buy flood insurance when they moved to their retirement home on the shores of Black Lake 14 year...

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