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When Bryan Calhoun goes on a Target run, he avoids the store in Wynnewood, Pa., just a few miles away from his home in Broomall, a western suburb of Philadelphia. He opts...
ROARING SPRING, Pa. — A Pennsylvania school district's decision to remove a song from a recent student choral concert has divided the community and spurred a review by a ...
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As spring and summer activities draw more people outdoors, ticks have more opportunities to create problems.
“Tick season” in Pennsylvania generally lasts from April to O...
CASTLETON, Vt. — A Vermont university has bestowed the honorary degree of “doctor of litter-ature” on Max the Cat, a beloved member of its community, ahead of students' g...
WASHINGTON — Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across a newly built U.S. pier and into the besieged enclave for the first time Friday as Israeli ...
WASHINGTON — A prominent conservative activist's son was sentenced on Friday to nearly four years in prison for what prosecutors said was his “relentless” assault on the ...
SAN FRANCISCO — The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer was sentenced Friday to 30 years in pris...
NEW YORK — Drones will soon be accompanying cops on 911 calls throughout the city, NYPD officials said.
A new Drone as First Responder pilot program will be in effect in ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian police have arrested more than 260 people, including three European citizens, on suspicion of spreading satanism, the state-run IRNA...
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said Friday its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages killed by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Isr...
MEXICO CITY — A mayoral candidate and five other people were killed when people opened fire at a campaign rally in the violence-wracked southern Mexico state of Chiapas, ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military finished installing a floating pier off the Gaza Strip on Thursday, with officials poised to begin ferrying badly needed humanitarian aid i...
BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia — Slovak authorities charged a man Thursday with attempting to assassinate populist Prime Minister Robert Fico, saying the suspect acted alone ...
