Students, families and their pets gathered in the parking lot at St. Joseph Catholic Church on Monday for the annual blessing of pets in honor of St. Francis of Assisi. The celebration, traditionally held on the feast day of St. Francis, was held one day late this year to ensure students ...
A Warren man has been convicted at trial of indecent assault of a person with a mental disability. David W. Dickson, 79, of Youngsville was charged with indecent assault of a person with a mental disability and indecent assault without consent of other in October 2025 by the State Police at Warren after an alleged incident on Aug. 28, 2025, in Pleasant Township. Dickson was found guilty on both counts following a jury trial Sept. 29 in front of President Judge Gregory Hammond in the Court of Common Pleas. A person commits indecent assault if they have non-consensual indecent ...
Facing a single medical diagnosis is challenging for anyone, but when a child receives multiple complex conditions, the battle becomes monumental — requiring an entire community to rally behind a family on the long journey ahead. That is exactly why the community is coming together to host ...
Legislation is coming to the state General Assembly that would close a rape and sexual assault loophole that has come under scrutiny across the country after a sexual assault at a Cornell University fraternity house. Rep. Lisa Borowski, D-Newtown Square, is drafting legislation that would ...
SCANDIA — Elk Township Historical Society will open its museum and restored 1800s classroom for the final event of the year on Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. Enjoy a beautiful autumn drive to the four corners in Scandia, and visit our museum filled with artifacts, old photos, cemetery and obituary records, and notebooks of early families, who resided in the township. We’re small in size, but filled from floor to ceiling with amazing collections of early life on the hill. Children will enjoy sitting at the antique school desks in the 1800s classroom, browsing through old books, ...
U.S. Sen. John Fetterman joined most of his Democratic colleagues in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin expressing concern about its actions ahead of the midterm election. “We write to warn you against continued activities at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that seek to undermine the Constitutional authority of both Congress and states to administer elections and defy the directions of federal courts,” the senators wrote in a joint letter in late September. “As Secretary of Homeland Security, you have promoted the President’s ...
