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Pennsylvania has been prepping for 250th

Pennsylvania has been fighting, spending and planting its way toward July 4 for years. The state sued the Trump administration to protect $18 million in security funding. Philadelphia has committed $620 million. And a secret society of Freemasons quietly planted a liberty tree in all 67 ...

Tax cut to lower energy bills may impact state budget

HARRISBURG — Responding to public anger over soaring energy costs, Pennsylvania lawmakers in both parties have voted in support of a massive tax cut that would lower electric bills for customers across the state — although they have said little publicly about how to pay for the $1.7 ...

‘Dangerous’ heat headed east

DETROIT — Nature’s oven was on high Tuesday for millions of people in the Midwest and Great Lakes states as intense heat and humidity baked the regions with no immediate relief before the misery shifts to the eastern U.S. The National Weather Service was blunt: Conditions were ...

Data center moratoriums backed in GOP-run Senate

A key Senate committee on Wednesday gave bipartisan support to the concept of letting a municipality put in place an 18-month moratorium on data center development, but it shunned the notion of one lasting three years. In separate votes, the Senate Local Government Committee passed two ...

Painting in the park

Artist Brienne M. Brown of Julian (Centre County) oil paints a scene Monday from a sketch she made while visiting a temple in India. Brown was painting at Garfield Park while waiting on her son as he attends Altoona Community Theatre’s Summer Drama Camp. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

Local leaders offer tips for Big Boy viewing

At a news conference Monday at the Railroaders Memorial Museum called by local leaders in emergency management and law enforcement, AMED Executive Director Gary Watters spoke of videos taken in recent weeks in places like New York state that illustrate why there’s so much concern about the ...