HOUSTON (AP) — The memorials to former first lady Barbara Bush have begun with a celebration of her life in front of Houston’s City Hall.  Mayor Sylvester Turner and several of Houston’s leading clergy members from different fa More...

The Lenape Joint Operating Committee (JOC) recently held their April monthly meeting last evening in which a series of budgetary and disposal of equipment measures were passed.  Bills for the month of March were approved by board members in the More...

Armstrong County 911 released the following report on recent incidents:  * West Penn Power, Peoples Gas, Freeport Ambualnce, and Freeport Fire Department responded to a miscellaneous fire call at 11:38 a.m. More...

A century after airplanes first took to the skies, the concept of flying confounds. More...

There have been a lot of questions about why Trump fired James Comey, ever since he announced to NBC’s Lester Holt — incomprehensibly — that it was his decision, citing, by my count, at least a half-dozen different reasons.  More...

“There is that scatters, and yet increases; and there is that withholds more than is meet, but it tends to poverty.”  (Proverbs 11:24 AKJV)  Selfishness has its price. Look out for others and God will look out for you.   More...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prince thought he was taking a common painkiller but instead ingested a counterfeit pill containing the dangerously powerful drug fentanyl, a Minnesota prosecutor said Thursday as he announced that no charges would be filed i More...

CHICAGO (AP) — The federal government cannot withhold public safety grants from cities that refuse to cooperate with President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.  More...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The drama of U.S. and allied missile strikes on Syria has obscured a sobering fact: The U.S.-led campaign to eliminate the Islamic State from Syria has stalled.  More...

WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA’s latest nail-biting drama was far from orbit as the Senate narrowly confirmed President Donald Trump’s choice of a tea party congressman to run the space agency in an unprecedented party-line vote.  More...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The internal watchdog at the Environmental Protection Agency has launched yet another investigation of travel and security spending involving embattled administrator Scott Pruitt.  More...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A majority of federal control board members approved new austerity measures for Puerto Rico on Thursday, saying they would help revitalize the economy and create more jobs amid the U.S. More...

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II opened a summit of the 53-nation Commonwealth on Thursday, and backed her son Prince Charles to be the next leader of the association of Britain and its former colonies.  More...

HAVANA (AP) — Raul Castro handed over Cuba’s presidency Thursday to a hand-picked 57-year-old successor he said would hold power until 2031, a plan that would place the state the Castro brothers founded and ruled for six decades in the ha More...