STATE COLLEGE — Kish Bank has announced the appointment of Lisa Capella as vice president and senior credit officer. In her new role, Capella will support the bank’s commercial lending and credit administration operations, working alongside Tracy Wilkinson, senior vice president and ...
HARRISBURG — The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded $849,309 in grants to four Pennsylvania organizations that provide adaptive sports programs for veterans and active-duty service members. The funding is part of $16 million awarded to 91 organizations nationwide to expand recreational and competitive opportunities for veterans with disabilities. Programs offer activities such as archery, skiing, cycling, wheelchair softball, hunting and fishing to promote rehabilitation, independence and healthy lifestyles. “Through these grants, we’re strengthening access to ...
BURNHAM — Dozens of community members gathered Thursday morning at the Juniata Valley YMCA to celebrate the grand reopening of the YMCA community pool. After seven weeks of construction and anticipation, the crowd arrived for the reopening during one of the first water aerobics ...
(The Center Square) - A group of lawmakers are planning a last-minute play to extend the Supreme Court's Oct. 13 deadline concerning so-called "skill games" and they are doing it in court, rather than in the lawmaking chambers of the state Capitol. The group, in a pending filing with the court, is expected to ask the court to use its "King's Bench" authority to reset the deadline to Feb. 10, 2027. Under the King's Bench doctrine, the court can intervene in matters in lower courts or even those not in court if they are deemed to be of "immediate public importance." Those who operate ...
(THE CONVERSATION) With deepfakes on the rise, forgery and deception are often viewed as distinctly modern problems – a new era of misinformation made possible by artificial intelligence. One of the first alarming cases occurred at the start of the war in Ukraine when a doctored video appeared to show President Volodymyr Zelenskyy telling his soldiers to lay down their weapons. Yet the impulse to deceive people by fabricating evidence far predates the digital age. And in some cases, the consequences of these deceptions set off enormous ramifications for centuries thereafter. As a ...
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