House, Senate again take up farm bill
WASHINGTON — The fight over renewing the nation’s farm bill has centered on cuts to the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program. But t...
ZELIENOPLE — Northwest Savings Bank has donated $1,000 to the Friends of Zelienople Park.
The bank made the donation Oct. 17 as part of its ceremonial ribbon cutting at ...
SLIPPERY ROCK — No one really expects the safety director at a construction site to be the one who gets injured.
But in 2004, Rich McElhaney did.
“I got caught in the li...
Contractor will shepherd project
WASHINGTON — It should be working well by the end of November. That’s the Obama administration’s rough timetable for completing a long li...
The Mercer Livestock Auction provided the following report on the Oct. 22 livestock auction:
Commercial bulls, $85. to 109.; commercial cows, 60. to 79.50; commercial st...
Website woes focus of probe
WASHINGTON — The principal contractors responsible for the federal government’s trouble-plagued health insurance website say the Obama adminis...
LOS ANGELES — The rise in tuition at public colleges slowed this year to the smallest increase in more than three decades, although financial aid has not kept pace to co...
PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania’s top welfare official says she is rethinking the state’s widely criticized asset test for food stamps, but it remained unclear Wednesday wha...
DENVER — Two Colorado farmers whose cantaloupes were tied to a 2011 listeria outbreak that killed 33 people pleaded guilty on Tuesday to misdemeanor charges.
Eric and R...
Growth faster than expected
PITTSBURGH — Natural gas production from the Marcellus Shale region is growing faster than expected, according to a new federal report issued ...
