WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate Wednesday for the first time since 2023 in an effort to quell stubbornly high inflation and the central bank also signaled that another rate hike could occur later this year. The quarter-point increase lifts the Fed’s key ...
The Blair County Convention Center’s net operating income for the first eight months of 2026 came in at $186,962, despite higher-than-budgeted costs for labor, food and beverages. In a financial report offered Wednesday to the authority that oversees the convention center, CEO Tom Schilling reported revenue through August at $1.94 million and expenses at $1.75 million. The report also identified higher-than-budgeted labor costs of nearly 38%, and higher-than-budgeted expenses for food and beverages of nearly 22% and 24%, respectively. But those increases, according to the report, ...
A therapy provider for kids with disabilities has quit leasing the Easter Seals building on Valley View Boulevard as a venue for those services, so that it can save money, disappointing the parents of some of its child patients. Procare had been losing significant money on the arrangement, due to low reimbursements from Medicaid, but had been off-setting some of those losses through a contract under which it provided daytime therapy for students of an area school, according to Procare Partner/ Director Jim Foreman. That unnamed school, however, recently cut ties with Procare, so that ...
A city woman who served as the secretary-treasurer for the American Postal Workers Union Local 776 plead guilty Tuesday to federal embezzlement charges after a yearslong investigation into union financial records revealed about $50,000 in misappropriated funds. Nicole DeStefano, 52, appeared ...
A former inmate at the State Correctional Institution Huntingdon has lost his argument before the Pennsylvania Superior Court that his mental incompetence caused him to file an untimely petition seeking a correction in the sentence he was serving for possession of a weapon while in ...
WILLIAMSBURG — Dead trees and the costs associated with removing them was a topic of discussion for the Williamsburg Community School Board on Tuesday evening. The trees behind the elementary playground are dead and the equipment area has been closed for safety reasons, as some of those dead trees fell into the playground over the summer. Board members spent time discussing the pros and cons, and the price tag, of removing only the problem trees or clearing out a 30- to 40-foot section, starting around the basketball court along the back woods and around the kindergarten ...
