Argument leads to harassment citation
Argument leads to harassment citation McVEYTOWN — A 51-year-old McVeytown woman was cited for harassment following an incident July 12 in Wayne Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police at Lewistown. Police said they responded at about 2:33 a.m. to U.S. Highway 522 South for an argument that turned physical between the woman and a 48-year-old Mapleton Depot woman. A citation was filed. Traffic checkpoint leads to drug charge MIFFLINTOWN — A 38-year-old Mifflintown woman faces charges following a traffic stop Aug. 25 in Fermanagh Township, according to Pennsylvania State ...
A cool save earns national honors
MCALISTERVILLE — Fifteen minutes before the curtain was supposed to rise at East Juniata High School, people arriving for the spring musical noticed the auditorium was warm. Mason Beverlin, the maintenance technician for East Juniata High School, suspected the cooling system had failed. He called Ben Kauffman, an HVAC professional with MGM Mechanical of Pleasant Mills. Kauffman arrived about 10 minutes later, entered through the back of the building and headed for the mechanical room. He didn’t see much of the gathering crowd, which was fine with him. “I typically avoid people ...
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McCormick calls for doubling NIH budget within five years
(The Center Square) – Arguing that the U.S. is “underinvesting in discovery,” U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., is calling for changes to the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, which include increased investments from the federal government. “Rather than cut NIH by nearly 40 percent, as the Office of Management and Budget proposed last year, we should double its $48 billion budget within five years,” McCormick wrote in a Washington Post op-ed published on Wednesday. “These are big numbers, but if they yield discoveries that trim the nation’s $5.3 trillion health bill ...
Pennsylvania public sector worker rights rated low in new report
(The Center Square) – Pennsylvania received low marks in a new assessment of state public-sector worker rights, while two bills the report identifies as potential reforms have remained in committee for more than a year. The state was one of 15 receiving a D in the latest edition of The Battle for Worker Freedom: Grading State Public Sector Labor Laws recently released by the Commonwealth Foundation. The report examines the sway of government unions across the 50 state legislatures and grades them based on how well it protects public workers’ rights over union executives’ ...