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Medical center recognized for bone marrow transplant program

HERSHEY — Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has been ranked among the top eight blood and marrow transplant programs in the nation for patient outcomes, according to a new report. The ranking, based on the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research Final 2025 Transplant Center-Specific Survival Report, evaluated 176 programs nationwide. The Hershey-based program was the only one in Pennsylvania to receive the distinction. According to the report, the medical center’s Blood and Marrow Transplant Program achieved a one-year survival rate of ...

An inflation problem that could get harder to ignore

By Orphe Divounguy | The Center Square contributor (The Center Square) – Last week’s jobs report looked reassuring at first glance. Payrolls rose by 178,000 in March and the unemployment rate edged down to 4.3%. But the details were softer than the headline. January and February payrolls were revised down by a net 7,000, the labor force shrank by 396,000, participation slipped to 61.9%, and the employment-to-population ratio fell to 59.2%. The number of marginally attached workers jumped to 1.94 million, including 510,000 discouraged workers. Wage growth also cooled, with average ...

Pa. county jails earn millions of dollars detaining immigrants for ICE

by Kate Huangpu and Danielle Ohl of Spotlight PA HARRISBURG — A group of Pennsylvania counties has billed the federal government more than $21 million in recent years to detain immigrants in their jails, a first-of-its-kind review by Spotlight PA has found. While these agreements predate the second Trump administration by years or even decades, they are receiving new attention as the president executes a mass deportation campaign that relies heavily on local partners. They also highlight how counties in Pennsylvania already cooperate with ICE and other federal agencies to ...

Pa. attorney general warns of rise in social media investment scams

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday is warning residents about a rise in fraudulent investment schemes circulating on social media platforms, including Meta-owned Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The alert is part of a multistate effort urging Meta to strengthen oversight of advertising, particularly as fake investment ads and so-called “pump-and-dump” schemes proliferate online. According to the Office of Attorney General, scammers are increasingly using deceptive advertisements and artificial intelligence, including “deepfake” technology, to lure ...

Allegheny County jail runs on overtime, driving up pay

By Mark Stricherz | The Center Square (The Center Square) — For a growing number of corrections officers in Allegheny County, overtime now rivals – and, in some cases, exceeds – their base salary, an analysis of pay data by The Center Square found. Last year, 107 guards at Pittsburgh's main jail earned at least half their pay from overtime, according to county records. As recently as 2016, only 28 did so. The nearly four-fold increase reveals the extent to which the jail system in western Pennsylvania relies on overtime. Jail staff made up just 11 percent of the county’s ...

Shapiro joins multistate lawsuit challenging executive order on elections

HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro on Tuesday joined a multistate lawsuit challenging an executive order issued by Donald Trump that seeks to change how elections are administered. The lawsuit, filed alongside 17 other states and led by attorneys general in California, Massachusetts, Nevada and Washington, argues the order unlawfully interferes with states’ authority to run elections. The U.S. Constitution gives states primary responsibility for administering elections. According to the filing, the executive order directs federal agencies to take steps related to voter eligibility ...