A House committee approved two bills Wednesday creating new ways to deal with criminal offenders. The Judiciary Committee voted 14-12 on a party-line vote for an amended House Bill 1671 giving judges the option of ordering restorative justice as a pre-trial option provided prosecutors, the ...
HARRISBURG — Hours before a deadly explosion ripped through a Pennsylvania nursing home last month, staff grew concerned about the smell of natural gas on several floors and brought in workers from the local utility company to check it out, federal regulators said Wednesday. The preliminary ...
Amazon is slashing about 16,000 corporate jobs in the second round of mass layoffs for the ecommerce company in three months. The tech giant has said it plans to use generative artificial intelligence to replace corporate workers. It has also been reducing a workforce that swelled during the ...
Local officials are relieved about the smooth response to last weekend’s snowstorm that dropped up to 18 inches on parts of Blair County, even as a new storm could offer a second strike. Coordinated response According to Blair County 911 coordinator Emily States, “everything ran ...
Censorship claims, technical problems and a report of a surge in app deletions are just some of the challenges TikTok is facing as it adjusts to a new ownership structure in the United States that was finalized last week. The company said Monday it was experiencing a “major infrastructure ...
Human trafficking is one of the oldest crimes committed, according to Ashley Gay Vocco, victim services program director for Family Services Inc. Exploiting individuals with vulnerabilities, human traffickers unlawfully use force, fraud or coercion to profit from commercial sex acts, ...