Pennsylvania's new fiscal year began at 12:01 a.m. today without an approved 2005-06 budget in place.
While not a source of serious consequences at this juncture, the fa...
Obesity is becoming the new smoking - at least in terms of its known contribution to increased health care costs. And as such, it should be treated seriously by insuranc...
The United States' relationship with Vietnam has come a long way in the 10 years since President Bill Clinton took steps to restore relations between the former bitter e...
The undercover drug investigation in the Seneca Valley School District will hopefully serve as a deterrent to drug activity in other area school systems.
The Seneca Vall...
Summer camp season is just about in full swing, so last week was an appropriate time to learn that the Butler County YMCA is getting into the camp business.
In a win-win...
Too often, when the newspaper headline or television news bulletin says, "child missing," the follow up reports, days or weeks later are not good - usually a body is fou...
Regional air travelers' dismay over long lines at Pittsburgh International Airport have been confirmed by a survey of major airports by the Transportation Security Admin...
A small measure of belated common sense could be coming to Medicare and Medicaid. On Friday, the House approved an amendment to prohibit the government for paying for im...
A once-obscure federal agency, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., (PBGC) threatens to be making headlines as it rapidly becomes a financial time bomb. In a scenario now...
With the recent criminal convictions of former CEOs John Rigas and Dennis Kozlowski, the courts have proven that egregious corporate misdeeds will be punished. Each man ...
