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Pennsylvania to hit budget deficit next year: IFO
(The Center Square) – After a budget deal passed in the Capitol, a Pennsylvania state agency warns that the surplus will be depleted next year. The $47.6 billion budget, slightly less than Gov. Josh Shapiro’s $48.3 billion proposal that Republicans called “a budget of unicorns and rainbows,” will increase spending by $2.7 billion, including more than […]
State gives $1M to LCCC, others to improve adult literacy instructor, education training
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Lehigh Carbon Community College is among five Pennsylvania learning institutions that will share a statewide grant of more than $1 million to boost adult education and adult literacy instruction. The funds, awarded Thursday by the state Education Department, will help train and support volunteer adult literacy...
FAA, NTSB investigating helicopter crash near Hegins
HEGINS, Pa. (WHTM) — Federal authorities are investigating a helicopter crash in Schuylkill County. First responders were called to Wood Lane in Hegins Township just north of the village of Hegins around 1 p.m. for a helicopter down. The Federal Aviation Administration said a helicopter struck a power line and went down in a cornfield […]
Baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson's childhood home in Montgomery County to be demolished
The abandoned Wyncote property where baseball legend Reggie Jackson grew up will be torn down to make way for a proposed parking lot, the Cheltenham Board of Commissioners decided Wednesday. The two-story property at 149 Greenwood Ave. doubled as a family home and a tailor shop that Jackson's father, Martinez,...
11 crews called to Dauphin co. hardware store fire
DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa (WHP) — A family-owned hardware store in Elizabethville is recovering after a fire broke out early Friday morning. The blaze broke out at Kratzer Hardware in Dauphin county, located in the 400 block of West Main Street in the Elizabethville Borough, according to emergency dispatchers. In...
Driver flown to hospital after two-vehicle crash in Luzerne County
HAZLETON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A driver was flown to the hospital after a two-vehicle crash occurred Friday in Luzerne County. According to the Hazleton City Police Department, on Friday around 5:55 a.m. officers were called to a crash in the 700 block of South Church Street or State Route 309. Officers said a dump […]
12 Pennsylvania Books to Read This Summer
HARRISBURG — When Spotlight PA staffers aren’t busy filing public records requests, contacting sources or preparing your favorite newsletters, we’re often reading books or talking about them. This led to the creation of an internal book club, of course. To celebrate summer and all the opportunities the season brings to read on the beach, in the park or in that perfect nook or resting spot at home, the staff has compiled a list of our favorite books. The selections span a range of genres, but all connect to Pennsylvania in some way. The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough: On the cusp of summer in...
Pa. highway renamed to honor firefighters who died in house fire
LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. — A seven-mile stretch of Route 143 in Lehigh County was renamed Thursday in honor of firefighters Marvin Gruber and Zachary Paris, who died in the line of duty in December 2022 while fighting a house fire. A New Tripoli fire department truck slowly moved to...
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