An equipment operator from Plum Contracting of Greensburg loads a dump truck with dirt piled up in the eastern section of Legion Park on Monday afternoon in Hollidaysburg. The dirt was placed there during the floodplain restoration project for the Beaverdam Branch of the Juniata River. Mirror ...
NEW YORK — Mattel Inc. introduced an autistic Barbie on Monday as the newest member of its line intended to celebrate diversity, joining a collection that already includes Barbies with Down syndrome, a blind Barbie, a Barbie and a Ken with vitiligo, and other models the toymaker added to ...
Bob Lykens runs along Eighth Avenue in Duncansville as part of a 5K run on Thursday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
Miles Kennard, 3, looks up to his mother, Jamie Kennard, both of Hollidaysburg, as he drives the sidewalk along Allegheny Street on Thursday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
The Mirror and the local sports community mourned one of its pillars in the wake of former sports editor Jim Lane’s passing Monday at age 85 (see obituary here). Jim was long retired by the time I joined the sports desk as a part-timer nearly 10 years ago, but he was still a regular in the newsroom. I always appreciated our time together when we’d get to talk about sports, the times he helped me work on stories when I was still green and figuring out how I fit in a space that, at the time, was entirely foreign to me. He was a wealth of knowledge and a grandfather-like presence at ...
HELSINKI — The battle against fake news in Finland starts in preschool classrooms. For decades, the Nordic nation has woven media literacy, including the ability to analyze different kinds of media and recognize disinformation, into its national curriculum for students as young as 3 ...
