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Ticker: Shaky day for oil prices on Wall Street

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Stocks ended a shaky day of trading on Wall Street roughly where they began following a couple sudden reversals. The S&P 500 finished Thursday nearly flat and edged down by less than 0.1% following several turns between losses and gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.3%, and the Nasdaq composite added less than 0.1%. Stocks have slowed their rally since the S&P 500 climbed to the brink of its all-time high earlier this week as pressure from the bond market has cranked higher. Trump says little about tensions for US, China Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met on ...

Briefcase: Holtzinger to speak at UPJ

Local Business

STATE COLLEGE State College author, educator and entrepreneur Liz Holtzinger has been selected to speak at TEDx Pitt-Johnstown at 3 p.m. Oct. 3 at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown’s Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center. The youth-focused TEDx event will bring together speakers around the theme, “Not Born a Leader: How Ordinary People Become Change-Makers.” Holtzinger’s talk, “Start with Who,” will challenge the idea that leadership begins with what people accomplish or the titles they hold. Instead, she will explore how the stories people accumulate about themselves ...

Texas KFC opens to test ideas for reclaiming chicken crown

Local Business

KFC has been taking a licking from fried chicken rivals like Raising Cane’s, but the global fast-food chain has a plan to return to the top of the U.S. pecking order. The Kentucky-born brand opened a new restaurant in McKinney, Texas, on Thursday to serve as a test lab in its home market. ...

Legislature urged to create new rules for life sentences

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Prosecutors and other court officials on Thursday told a panel of lawmakers that the General Assembly needs to act to set the ground rules as the judiciary adjusts to a March Supreme Court ruling finding Pennsylvania’s use of mandatory life sentences for second-degree murder convictions is unconstitutional. The ruling impacted those convicted of committing a felony that resulted in a death. Critics of the state’s use of life sentences in these cases maintain that the old sentencing scheme was unfair to those who may have been conspirators in a crime but did not directly commit a ...

Spiritual notes — Sept. 25

Area Life

Food pantry available The food pantry at Twenty-eighth Street Church of the Brethren, 28th Street and Union Avenue, is available for those in need. Distribution will be held from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 25, by appointment only. Call Deb by Thursday at 814-207-8293. Yard sale planned The annual yard Sale at Asbury United Methodist Church, 1341 Grandview Road, Altoona, will be held from 8 a.m to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26. There will be puzzles, books, bake sale, food, drinks and crafts, jewelry, along with a variety of yard sale items. Vendor space is available for $15; bring ...

TV priest Archbishop Sheen to be beatified

Area Life

ST. LOUIS — Decades after he was a fixture on American TV screens, the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen is back in a familiar place: the media spotlight. Tens of thousands of Catholic devotees are converging on St. Louis for a formal ceremony of beatification on Thursday, in which the prelate ...