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Pennsylvania Lottery jackpot hit Thursday night
(WTAJ) — One lucky player hit the $400,000 Pennsylvania Cash 5 jackpot Thursday night. The winning ticket matched all five numbers in Thursday night’s drawing. The lottery said it was sold at Earl’s Market Inc. on Pennsylvania Avenue in State Line — Franklin County. Cash 5 winning numbers for Thursday, July 25: 07 15 19 24 31 According to […]
Pa. High School Football Report podcast: Hanging at PennLive’s Mid-Penn Football Media Day
This week, the epicenter of Mid-Penn Conference football was Cumberland Valley’s fieldhouse, where PennLive’s Fall Media Days took flight. Spend a half hour with co-hosts Evan Wheaton and Eric Epler, who first introduce PennLive’s new managing sports producer Austin Hertzog, a Lancaster native and proud graduate of the University of Pittsburgh.
In swing state Pennsylvania, middle class struggles to get by
The giant steelworks that greets visitors to Allentown, Pennsylvania once symbolized the city's success as an industrial hub. - More visitors at food pantries - On Friday, all eyes will be on new inflation figures from the US government.
Vending machine outside of local hospital offers condoms, pregnancy tests & more; First of its kind in Pennsylvania
The Health To Go vending machine is outside of the emergency department of UPMC Harrisburg, and it's one of the first in the state. Among the items in the machine are pregnancy tests, male and female condoms, naloxone, and fentanyl test strips. All of them, free.
‘Kill switch engaged’: Pa. man indicted for threatening Sen. Mastriano, others
A federal grand jury has indicted a Franklin County man for making threats against state Sen. Doug Mastriano, a Pennsylvania Air National Guard sergeant and a county commissioner. The grand jury indicted Richard Little, 49, of the 2800 block of Roosevelt Drive, Greene Township, on separate counts of making online...
Countdown to Penn State Kickoff: 35 days until Nittany Lions football
Penn State has high expectations for the 2024 college football season following another 10-win regular season campaign last fall. The Nittany Lions are projected as a fringe top-10 team in early national preseason rankings, with Big Ten championship aspirations and a debut College Football Playoff appearance in focus. PSU opens...
In-state defensive end Jackson Ford details Penn State offer, budding relationship with DL coach Deion Barnes
2026 Malvern (Pa.) Prep defensive end Jackson Ford traveled to Penn State on Friday along with high school teammate and fellow defensive lineman Cameron Brickle already firmly on the Power Four radar with offers from Maryland, Rutgers, Pittsburgh, West Virginia and Virginia Tech already in hand. He can now add...
Food safety workshops planned for small-scale dairy foods processors
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State Extension will offer two food safety workshops for dairy foods processors on successive days in August at the Erickson Food Science Building on Penn State’s University Park campus. “Dairy Basics: Fundamentals of Quality and Safety” will be Aug. 27, and “Hazard Analysis...
Penn State Student-Athletes Turn in Terrific 2024 Spring Semester in the Classroom
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State student-athletes recorded another outstanding semester in the classroom with a 3.28 term grade-point average (GPA) in the 2024 spring semester. The Nittany Lions had spring records with 596 students (73%) with a 3.0 semester GPA and 296 Dean’s List honorees (12+ credits & 3.5 semester GPA). In addition, 69 full-time students tallied a 4.0 semester with 17 carrying a 4.0 cumulative GPA.
State College’s Walk’s Service Center Settles with AG Henry Over Misleading Ticketing Practices
(WNY News Now) – Harrisburg – Attorney General Michelle Henry has secured a settlement with Walk’s Service Center Inc. and its owner, Bradley Karch, addressing deceptive private ticketing practices and establishing a consumer restitution fund. In a significant consumer protection victory, Attorney General Michelle Henry has finalized...
Patton Township discusses plan to address sinkholes near Mount Nittany Health construction site
A new stormwater management agreement looks to address sinkholes discovered at the construction site of a new and nearly completed Mount Nittany Health outpatient center. Patton Township supervisors want to address short- and long-term problems at the Toftrees Planned Community development. Toftrees West is part of a 700-acre planned community in Patton Township. Mount Nittany Health Toftrees is the only business at the site so far.
PHOTOS: Rushing water floods rooms of Altoona non-profit
ALTOONA, Pa. (WTAJ)–After getting reports of water rushing into a building crews arrived to Sixth Avenue on Altoona, between 23rd and 24th Streets. The building belongs to Arts Altoona, a non-profit aimed at promoting access to the arts in the community. Hundreds of gallons of water rushed out of a pipe in the basement of […]
Open Road Tolls Coming to Pennsylvania Turnpike in January
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission Construction Engineer Alan Williamson, left, explains how the new toll gantries will work along the turnpike. Those familiar toll booths on the Pennsylvania Turnpike are going away and that means drivers will be able to pay tolls without slowing down or hitting backed up traffic at toll plazas, writes Evan Jones for The Morning Call.
Broadband authority OKs $20M for laptops
(The Center Square) — The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority voted Thursday to spend $20 million on more than 14,000 laptops to grow internet access in the commonwealth. The unanimous vote allows the Authority to award between 20 and 200 laptops to libraries, schools, municipalities and other groups. So far, 130 groups have applied to the […]
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