WASHINGTON — A man who opened fire Saturday near a White House security checkpoint is dead after being shot by officers who returned fire, the U.S. Secret Service said. It was the third incidence of gunfire in the vicinity of President Donald Trump in the past month. The law enforcement ...
Data center developers are increasingly targeting agricultural land for new projects, and residents in affected communities are mounting opposition, concerned about the industrialization of their farmland. At the same time, Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration is pursuing two priorities that ...
TYRONE — Although Faith Swanson’s resignation as the Tyrone Area School District’s business administrator was effective April 22, she has remained with the district part time and isn’t planning to step away fully until her replacement is found and able to succeed in the ...
Having experienced prior failure in an effort to get big money for a sprawling bicycle-trail project on its watershed grounds, the Altoona Water Authority is now looking for a modest sum to pay for a trail project of limited scope, in hopes that a small success will create impetus for further progress. Previously, working with the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC), the authority applied without success for a $7.3 million Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization (AMLER) grant to create 45 miles of trails on formerly strip-mined ground above the Horseshoe Curve and onto Chestnut ...
Pennsylvania enacted a state tax break for data centers during the pandemic when those enterprises were just a glimmer on the horizon. The 2021 state Fiscal Code provides a 6% sales tax exemption on equipment purchased by data centers. This includes servers which process and store data. It’s designed to attract data center investment in Pennsylvania as it competes with other states. Five years later, with some 50 data center projects appearing across Pennsylvania, local citizen opponents are calling to repeal the tax break. Three repeal measures are in the legislative hopper along ...
WARRIORS MARK — Pennsylvania Farm Bureau members gathered Thursday at Thistle Creek Farms to celebrate May being Beef Month. The event was hosted by farm owners George and Christy Lake. Lake, 79, is a 30-year U.S. Marine Corps veteran. He has transformed his family’s 600-acre farm, operated since 1919, into a nationally recognized regenerative, pasture-based livestock operation, producing a premium grass-fed beef brand. Beef Month emerged in the 1980s as part of state-led beef promotion efforts and grew alongside the federal Beef Checkoff program established in 1985, eventually ...
