Abigail Burchfield (as Viola de Lesseps) dances with Dylan Hawksworth (as William Shakespeare) during a dress rehearsal for Altoona Area High School’s production of “Shakespeare in Love.” The drama department will perform at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 6 and 7. Tickets, $10 for ...
Three city men are behind bars after allegedly burglarizing multiple storage units over a period of four days. Nicholas Allen Crocitto, 29, Michael W. Elvey II, 39, and Casey Dewayne Sheppard, 48, were arraigned Tuesday by Magisterial District Judge Daniel C. DeAntonio on identical felony ...
The Hollidaysburg Area Education Association stated that the school district and union have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract. The two sides began another round of negotiations Tuesday afternoon and the tentative agreement was announced about 7:30 p.m. on the union’s Facebook page. The union stated that more information will be released in the coming days.
A rebound for some influential Big Tech stocks helped lift the U.S. market despite a drop for Apple and mixed trading elsewhere on Wall Street. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% Tuesday, even though the majority of stocks within the index fell. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite added 0.8%. Apple sank after warning it may squeeze out less profit from each $1 in revenue as costs jump for memory chips. But Nvidia and other AI-related stocks offset that after bouncing back following weeks of their own sharp swings. Oil prices sank. Higher oil prices boost Saudi ...
Students using Google software in the classroom will not be allowed to access the company’s search engine unless their school system also opts in to using artificial intelligence, the tech giant said Tuesday. The Mountain View, California, company has been facing pushback from educators, child development experts and parents over the use of its technology in schools, with the backlash heating up since it announced in August that it had turned on its Gemini chatbot for many K-12 students who use Google Classroom. On Tuesday, the company said that practice would no longer be the ...
WASHINGTON — U.S. employers ramped up their job postings in September as stronger economic growth may be encouraging more hiring. Yet voters are headed to the polls Tuesday largely gloomy over an economy beset by higher prices. U.S. job openings jumped to 7.5 million from a revised 7.19 ...
