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Clearfield commissioners to vote on contract extension for Moshannon detention center

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CLEARFIELD — The Clearfield County Board of Commissioners is scheduled to vote Tuesday on whether to sign a six-month contract extension for the operation of Moshannon Valley Processing Center, the largest immigration detention facility in the Northeast. The commissioners’ five-year agreements with ICE and GEO Group are set to expire in late September. The county acts as a middleman between the government agency and the private contractor that owns and operates Moshannon. For its part, the county receives $200,000 per year. The setup offered a workaround to former President Joe ...

Manufactured homeowners say time for legislative help on lot rents waning

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(The Center Square) – Pennsylvania lawmakers seeking to ease the state’s housing shortage have advanced proposals that would facilitate new home construction, but there are residents who worry about losing the affordable housing they already have. For some, affordability is already slipping away. Residents from Manufactured Home Communities, or MHCs, gathered last week in Allentown for a meeting organized by the Coalition of Manufactured Home Communities of Pennsylvania to discuss the current status and future prospects of several bills aimed at protecting them, including two that ...

Shapiro admin rules for Medicaid recipients spark lawsuit from people with disabilities

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HARRISBURG — Earlier this year, some Pennsylvanians with disabilities and their families won a major victory. Commonwealth Court struck down two rules that affected people with intellectual disabilities and autism in Pennsylvania’s Medicaid program, saying the state didn’t follow a required process for implementing those rules as regulations and “they must be considered null and void.” One rule limited how long the program would pay for support services when people traveled out of state, while the second limited how many hours per week relatives could work as paid caregivers. ...

Shapiro says international collaboration is needed to regulate AI

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(The Center Square) – As the conversation of AI evolving dominates headlines across the globe, Gov. Josh Shapiro delivered an address on Thursday laying out what he thinks is the best path forward. “I am not a doomer. I don't think it is inevitable that AI is going to take over the world, or that someone will misuse it to kill us or to do harm,” Shapiro said. “But I do have real concerns, as do many Pennsylvanians and many Americans.” “And I don't think that the very real concerns of our neighbors that they overwhelmingly express about this technology is a hoax, as our ...

Scientists hope deeper-rooted soybeans can withstand climate extremes

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Research scientist Ashish Rajurkar kneels in the dirt, lifting a large clod of soil tangled around a soybean plant. He knocks away pieces of earth from the plant's roots, which slope straight down instead of out to the side like typical soybean plants. Researchers hope roots like these could help crops withstand some effects of climate change while also drawing more carbon from the atmosphere and storing it underground. Carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels traps heat in the atmosphere, driving human-caused climate change. For years, scientists have ...

PSP seeks owners of $200K in gold, additional scam victims

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MILTON — Pennsylvania State Police are trying to identify the owners of approximately $200,000 in gold bars seized during a traffic stop as investigators search for additional victims of a scam involving people posing as federal officers. State police at Milton said troopers stopped a silver 2025 Honda Accord with California registration on Interstate 80 near mile marker 203 on Sept. 10. Troopers found gold and an identity-theft affidavit inside the vehicle, and two occupants were taken into custody. A victim later told investigators the Honda resembled the vehicle used to pick up ...