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  Air Pollution Linked to Accelerated Dementia and Alzheimer’s Risk
In recent years, mounting evidence has painted a troubling picture of how the air we breathe might be silently undermining our cognitive health. A growing body of research suggests that exposure to fine particulate matter and other airborne...
    
  Opponents of Google's Fort Wayne data center plan strategy
Google's plan to install 140 more diesel backup generators than previously approved for its east Fort Wayne campus could go up in foul-smelling smoke. That's the hope of about 100 data center opponents who gathered at Allen County Public Library's...
Delhi air damaging your brain? Study shows it’s not just your lungs at risk, your brain may be suffering irreversible damage
As Delhi chokes under yet another cloud of toxic smog, a growing body of global research is revealing a disturbing truth, air pollution doesn’t just harm your lungs; it could also be silently damaging your brain. A new report by The New York Times...
    
  15 Natural Disasters That Were So Extreme They Sound Made Up
Natural disasters have a way of reminding us just how unpredictable and powerful nature can be. Some events in history sound like fictional tales from a dystopian novel, but should serve as a warning about the future of our planet and climate....
Welcome to the Hotels Pennsylvania
I’m a townie who moved to the area in my late thirties and started hunting in my early fifties. First I hunted from tree stands on generous friends’ property. As I met more hunters, I was invited to hunt from a friend’s one-person tower stand that...
    
  Fetterman Shares The One Line He Won’t Cross As A Democrat
Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman said on Fox News Monday that he refuses to demonize political opponents. Tensions between the parties have escalated since last year, with former Vice President Kamala Harris calling President Donald...
UPMC nurse seriously injured in violent attack by patient at Altoona hospital
An emergency room nurse from a UPMC hospital in Pennsylvania was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital over the weekend after police said he was violently attacked by a patient. According to a criminal complaint, Bradley Lloyd, 40, is facing numerous...
    
  Everything Indiana’s Curt Cignetti said ahead of Penn State
Indiana football head coach Curt Cignetti addressed the media during his usual Monday press conference ahead of the Hoosiers’ matchup at Penn State on Saturday at Beaver Stadium in State College, Pennsylvania. Here’s what he had to say: CURT...
Pennsylvania turkey population down ahead of 2025 fall season opening this weekend
Pennsylvania’s first turkey season with expanded Sunday hunting opens this weekend, but not everywhere. Concerns about the wild turkey population continue to keep the fall season closed in Wildlife Management Unit 5C that covers most of the Lehigh...
    
  Butler County GOP mayor won’t back down from fighting for town despite death threats
Butler County, Pennsylvania, is inescapably linked to political violence. It is the location where the first assassination attempt on President Donald Trump occurred during a political rally on July 13, 2024. It is where volunteer firefighter...
    
  Pennsylvania Senators Unveil Bipartisan Bill to Regulate Skill Games
Two Pennsylvania state senators have introduced new bipartisan legislation to regulate the state’s growing “skill-game” industry. The legislation aims to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue while cracking down on “illegal...
    
  Pennsylvania ranks among the worst states for jobs, per report
Looking for a job? Finding a good one in Pennsylvania may not be easy, a new report says. The Keystone state ranks among the worst in the country for jobs, according to WalletHub, a personal finance firm. Pennsylvania ranked 44th overall, with...
    
  Pennsylvania MRF receives ‘multi-million dollar’ loan from Closed Loop
Dive Brief: Superior Fine Grind, a Pennsylvania-based MRF operator, has received a multi-million-dollar catalytic loan from Closed Loop Partners’ Catalytic Capital & Private Credit group. SFG used the loan for new equipment and upgrades at its...
    
  Environmental experts address proposed injection well concerns in Bienville Parish
RINGGOLD, La. – Citizens from Jamestown and the surrounding area met at the American Legion Post for a community meeting to learn more about the dangers of saltwater injection wells. Opposition has been growing since Brickyard Trucking LLC...
    
  Pennsylvania’s Winter Forecast Is in (And It’s Not What You’d Expect)
While we’re used to experiencing all four seasons in a day, we all know the best way to survive winter in Pennsylvania is to expect the unexpected. We might wake up to a balmy morning that tricks us into thinking spring has arrived, only to get a...
    
  Pennsylvania takes step toward enshrining abortion and reproductive freedom in state constitution
The proposed amendment would protect a person’s right to choose or refuse an abortion, contraception, or fertility care. Pennsylvania’s constitution provides certain protections for its residents that other states may not—like the right to a clean...
    
  Pennsylvania signs onto revised Chesapeake Bay agreement as it nears final passage
A revised agreement to restore the Chesapeake Bay is speeding toward final passage, after a key committee rejected Maryland attempts to strengthen parts of the plan and voted Tuesday to forward it to bay-area leaders for their OK. The agreement...
    
  Golf team acquires golf simulator
The Elizabethtown College golf program is making huge steps forward with the installation of a new high-tech SkyTrak simulator. This gives the team year-round practice opportunities during the Pennsylvania winter. The simulator is put in place...
    
  Lawmaker seeks to make rye whiskey the official spirit of Pennsylvania
Lawmaker seeks to make Pennsylvania rye whiskey the official spirit of the Commonwealth GOOD MORNING. IT IS 430 ON THIS HALLOWEEN MORNING. HAPPY HALLOWEEN. I’M MATT BARCARO AND I’M MEREDITH JORGENSEN SO EXCITED TO BE HERE ON THIS HALLOWEEN...
    
  Winter Outlook: What to Expect in Northeastern Pennsylvania
NORTHEAST Pa. (WOLF) — We're in the heart of fall, but we're already looking ahead to the winter months, and we're going to discuss the difference between weather and climate. Weather is the current atmospheric conditions. Think of a winter...