This winter the Penn State Extension Green Industry Team will offer a series of sessions called the Green Industry Winter Updates.
These two-hour long sessions will be t...
New company hopes to change biking
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Massachusetts startup is launching a new device that transforms almost any bicycle into an electric-hybrid vehicle...
Short-term rate rise not coming
WASHINGTON — In his final performance, Ben Bernanke rewrote the script.
Investors had been on edge for months about when the Federal Reser...
Laws give stores leeway with shoplifters
NEW YORK — Outside the view of paying customers, people accused of shoplifting at Macy’s huge flagship store are escorted by secu...
The Mercer Livestock Auction provided the following report on the Dec. 17 livestock auction.
Commercial bulls, $84. to 93.; commercial cows, 18. to 86.; commercial steer...
NEW YORK — Target says anyone who made purchases by swiping cards at terminals in its U.S. stores between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15 may have had their accounts exposed to a re...
WASHINGTON — U.S. builders broke ground on homes at the fastest pace in more than five years, strong evidence that the housing recovery is accelerating despite higher mo...
NEW YORK — Sparse crowds at malls and “50 percent off” signs at The Gap and other stores offer clues as to how this holiday season is shaping up so far: It’s the most di...
Moraine State Park and Jennings Environmental Education Center will sponsor First Day Hikes on Jan. 1.
At Moraine, hikers will meet at McDanels Launch on the North Shore...
PITTSBURGH — The U.S. Department of Energy says that Pennsylvania may close out 2013 as the second-largest producer of natural gas in the nation, behind Texas.
The Tuesd...
