If your group is looking for a way to give back to your community or become more cohesive, Ruby Wiles, founder and director of Free Books for Kids Town, has a program that will do both: Halloween Read and Treat. Wiles encourages individuals and groups – churches, libraries, service clubs, ...
Attorneys representing the state Attorney General’s office are opposing state lawmakers’ efforts to stay enforcement of a state Supreme Court ruling regarding skill games until February. The state Supreme Court agreed with the office’s argument, with justices issuing a short ruling Friday afternoon denying an exercise of King's Bench Authority or extraordinary jurisdiction to extend for another 120 days the court's delay in seizing skill games not located in casinos throughout Pennsylvania. Requests from state lawmakers and non-profit organizations who have skill games were both ...
CLARENDON - U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson was on the ground floor of the development of the Allegheny Valley Veterans Center. On Thursday, the region’s congressional representative and private donors gathered to receive an update on its progress. The center offers homeless and unstably housed ...
Early October is about the time when there is a noticeable difference in sunlight. The sun sets a little earlier in the evening each day, but long before I truly internalize this change, I am struck by the difference in angle and how the changing colors of plants affect how the sunlight ...
A Buffalo woman who pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor conspiracy charges has been sentenced to probation and a ban on purchasing firearms under the federal Gun Control Act of 1968. Julia Rose Carter, 33, of Buffalo, had been charged with 12 counts of third-degree felony materially false written statement - purchase, delivery, transfer of firearm; 12 counts of loans on, or lending, giving firearms prohibited; and 12 counts of statement under penalty. Several of the charges had been changed, with none of the felony charges prosecuted, before Carter pleaded guilty in September to one ...
Pennsylvania state lawmakers and a trade group representing skill game companies are asking the state Supreme Court to use its authority to keep skill games in operation until next year. State senators Gene Yaw and Anthony Williams and state representatives Danilo Burgos and Jonathan Fritz ...
