UNIVERSITY PARK — The latest advances in agricultural technology — including a robotics exhibit, commercial exhibits and live field demonstrations — will take center stage at Penn State’s Ag Progress Days, Aug. 11-13. A new addition this year is the FIRA Robotics Village — a ...
From staff reports STATE COLLEGE — More than $1.18 million in state funding has been awarded to State College Borough and College Township for traffic signal improvements aimed at reducing congestion and improving safety along key roadways in the Centre Region, state Rep. Paul Takac announced Tuesday. The grants are being awarded through Pennsylvania’s Green Light-Go program, which provides reimbursement funding to municipalities for projects that improve the operation and efficiency of existing traffic signals. State College Borough will receive $997,755 to expand ...
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Aging has taken the unprecedented step of temporarily decommissioning one of the state’s 52 county agencies that protect older adults from abuse and neglect after uncovering “serious performance issues” there. For the next 180 days, Potter County’s older adults will be served by a neighboring aging agency as the state determines how to proceed. Options include putting the agency on an improvement plan or shuttering it permanently. Though state officials did not provide details on the problems they discovered, they said they were ...
For two years, there was only one question about the Federal Reserve: when do they cut? This week, that question quietly died. On Wednesday, the Fed held its benchmark rate at 3.50%–3.75% for the fifth consecutive meeting. That part was expected. What wasn’t: three regional Fed presidents – Cleveland’s Beth Hammack, Minneapolis’s Neel Kashkari, and Dallas’s Lorie Logan – voted against the hold. Not because they wanted to cut. Because they wanted to hike, right now. It’s the first time since 2016 that three officials dissented in the same direction, and that direction ...
As debate continues to rage about the role lawmakers should play in regulating artificial intelligence and data centers, a pair of progressive Democrats offered their thoughts on what the federal government should do. “We’re going to be unleashing a Data Center Bill of Rights,” said U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat representing California’s 17th District. “You should not be able to put a data center into a place if the community is opposed to it.” “The community should have the ability to say no,” he continued. Khanna’s comments were made on Tuesday in ...
Federal District Judge Joy Flowers Conti in an order issued Wednesday vacated the death sentence imposed on a former Altoona man for the February 2004 murder of his then-girlfriend. Andre Staton, 63, will now be sentenced to life in prison without parole. Staton is presently incarcerated in ...
