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A new home for Penn State football history

UNIVERSITY PARK — For generations of Penn State fans, iconic Beaver Stadium has never been just a football venue. It has been a gathering place, a landmark and a keeper of memories. From White Out victories to championship celebrations, from family traditions passed down through ...

University of Michigan political scientist's model built to detect voter fraud

In April 2025, the Election Truth Alliance was a three-month-old Nevada nonprofit with a growing audience in anti-Trump online spaces and a claim that something about the 2024 presidential election did not add up. The group had released an analysis of the results in Pennsylvania and sent letters to officials there and in Wisconsin asking them to hand-check the results of multiple elections. Now, it wanted to work with Walter Mebane Jr., a tenured University of Michigan political scientist and one of the few academics who had spent decades trying to detect the statistical fingerprints of ...

Nearly half of Pennsylvania's 'fast track' data center municipalities signed NDA's

(The Center Square) - In nearly half of municipalities hosting the state's most prominent data center projects, local public officials or staff signed non-disclosure agreements with companies, a dynamic that is fueling concerns that the public's access to information is being compromised. Public records requests submitted by The Center Square to municipalities hosting nine data center proposals that were in Gov. Josh Shapiro's "fast track" state permitting program in early June revealed that four had signed "NDA's." Officials in a fifth fast-track municipality - Kline Township in ...

Report: Local coroner announces measles death

(The Center Square) — A 6-week-old baby girl died from measles last month in Lancaster County, though its unclear if this is the second death identified by the Department of Health during an Aug. 25 press conference that’s raised more questions than it answered. First reported by LNP, Lancaster County Coroner Stephen Diamantoni said the infant, born with a rare genetic condition called Amish lethal microcephaly, was in palliative care with an anticipated life expectancy of less than six months. He says he doesn’t know if the child was born with measles or contracted it later. The ...