The United States and China on Monday released reciprocal lists of nonsensitive products worth about $30 billion each that will see tariff cuts, from American hair products to Chinese toys, in a deal expected to help bolster bilateral trade. The details came days after Chinese President Xi ...
Blair County boasts a rich industrial past driven by the 19th-century iron trade, the expansion of early canal and transport networks and its rise to a world leader in railroading through the Pennsylvania Railroad. The iron industry began in Blair County in the early 1800s as at one time ...
BEDFORD — Pennsylvania Healthy Lands Week encouraged volunteers to roll up their sleeves Monday after planting native trees around Shawnee State Park’s campsite and dropping fish habitats full of invasive tree branches into the lake. From now through Oct. 4, state parks and forests in ...
Public comment dominated the majority of the Altoona Area School Board meeting Monday, as district employees addressed ongoing contract talks and a parent raised concerns about recent alleged conduct by a group of district students. UniServ representative Douglas Rosenberry spoke on behalf of ...
House lawmakers weighed putting a moratorium on AI Chatbots in children’s toys during a committee hearing Monday. The House Communications and Technology Committee heard testimony on House Bill 2637 sponsored by Committee Majority Chair Joseph Ciresi, D-Montgomery. HB2637 sets a three-year moratorium on the manufacture, distribution and sale of toys containing AI Chatbots. Ciresi said the moratorium would help keep children safe, allow more research and give government and the AI industry time to set guardrails. The toys use an internet connection, microphone and a speaker allowing ...
HOLLIDAYSBURG — A member of an alleged fraud ring told a Blair County jury Monday morning that he was coerced into cooperating with the group, during the first day of trial for the ring’s supposed “supplier.” Jaylon Maurice Speight, 31, of Walstonburg, North Carolina, is accused of ...
