The Mercer Livestock Auction provided the following report on the May 14 livestock auction.
Commercial bulls, $89.50 to 105.50; commercial cows, 70. to 85., core; commer...
Fracking has not hurt water wells
PITTSBURGH — Hydraulic fracturing for natural gas hasn’t contaminated drinking water wells in Arkansas, according to a new study, but re...
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are ready to question the ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service as Congress holds its first hearing on the tougher scrutiny the IRS gave tea...
Food stamp program would be trimmed
WASHINGTON — The House Agriculture Committee on Wednesday approved a sweeping farm bill that would trim the $80 billion-a-year food st...
PITTSBURGH — Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh has been fined $100,000 by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.
The gaming board said in a Wednesday news release that the fin...
Extra charges top $6 billion
NEW YORK — U.S. airlines collected more than $6 billion in baggage and reservation change fees from passengers last year — the highest amount...
CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. — The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind farm for killing eagles and other protected bird species, an Associated Press inves...
Expansion of Medicaid may take until '15
HARRISBURG — A top aide to Gov. Tom Corbett said expanding Medicaid eligibility in Pennsylvania under a sweeping federal health c...
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's to...
Multiple factors are playing a part in the decline of honey bee colonies, according to a report released last week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environm...
