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Everytown launches campaign demanding colleges, universities divest from gun industry

Friday, January 27 by ABC News

(NEW YORK) -- Students Demand Action, a grassroots network of Everytown for Gun Safety, is launching a campaign calling on colleges and universities across the country to divest from the gun industry. Students at nearly 30 colleges and universities around the country have joined the... Read More.

Pennsylvania ranks poorly in recent study about business-friendliness

Saturday, January 21 by Louise Bennett

UNDATED – There have been recent efforts by Pennsylvania lawmakers to make the Commonwealth more business-friendly. However, a new report... Read More.

107th annual Pennsylvania Farm Show wraps up tonight

Saturday, January 14 by Louise Bennett

HARRISBURG – Today is the last day for you to check out the 107th annual Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg. The farm show kicked... Read More.

Pennsylvania Farm Show prepares to kick off next week

Tuesday, December 27 by Louise Bennett

HARRISBURG – It will soon be January, and that means The Pennsylvania Farm Show is right around the corner. The PA Farm Show is the largest indoor agricultural exposition under one roof in the United States, and it begins Saturday, January 7th, in Harrisburg. This year’s... Read More.

City of Buffalo files first of its kind lawsuit against gun industry

Tuesday, December 20 by ABC News

(BUFFALO, N.Y.) -- The city of Buffalo announced Tuesday it has filed a "first of its kind" lawsuit against the gun industry, seven months after a teenager killed 10 people and wounded three others at a Buffalo grocery store. The lawsuit was announced by Mayor... Read More.

Pennsylvania to receive more than $450 million from CVS and Walgreens in opioid crisis lawsuit

Friday, December 16 by Louise Bennett

HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania will receive more than $450 million from CVS and Walgreens as part of a national settlement of opioid crisis lawsuits. Over the next 15 years, the Keystone state will be getting a total of $2.2 billion from companies connected with the pharmaceutical... Read More.

Jeff Tech receives grant for new Farm-to-Refrigerator program

Tuesday, November 29 by Louise Bennett

REYNOLDSVILLE -- A $1.1 million grant from the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program has been awarded to a project at Jeff Tech in Reynoldsville. According to State Senator Cris Dush, the money will be used at the vocational technical school to construct, equip, and furnish a... Read More.

Connect FM and the Radio Industry Mourn Jim Bohannon

Tuesday, November 15 by Jay Philippone

Veteran talk radio host Jim Bohannon has died at age 78, at the Prisma Health Cottingham Hospice House in South Carolina after losing a hard fought battle with esophageal cancer. Jim was heard on Sunny 106 in the early 1990’s and Connect FM since the... Read More.

Child care industry struggles with shortage of workers: ‘This is unheard of’

Thursday, October 20 by ABC News

(NEW YORK) -- Marcelo Candia spends all day teaching a classroom full of 4-year-old children in northern Virginia -- then walks across the street to work in a grocery store bakery for four more hours. It's the reality faced by so many workers in the... Read More.

DuBois Area United Way names new Associate Director

Saturday, October 8 by Louise Bennett

DUBOIS -- Neil Hanes has been named the new Associate Director of the DuBois Area United Way. Hanes brings work experience... Read More.

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