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BEDFORD - Cloudy skies and damp, cool weather weren't enough to keep hundreds of craft seekers from the 52nd annual Fall Foliage Festival on Saturday in downtown Bedford.

Pennsylvania's teachers are well-paid compared to those in other states, but in Pennsylvania and nationwide, fewer college students are becoming teachers.

A rain-swollen river bursts its banks and floods a neighboring town, leaving houses damaged and infrastructure battered.

JOHNSTOWN - An Altoona man wanted for his alleged role in a multi-million dollar heroin ring is now in custody.
Robert A. Castapheny, 28, of 2731 Seventh Ave.

HARRISBURG - A court decision that has hacked a major chunk out of Pennsylvania's heavily negotiated casino gambling law is prompting fear among lawmakers who represent casino districts that their communities may never recoup the tens of millions o...

HOLLIDAYSBURG - Blair County Senior Judge Hiram Carpenter will decide if a hearing with testimony is warranted on post-trial issues being raised in a 2002 murder case.
William D.

Regulars at tobacco and vapor stores may find their wallets a little lighter because of new state taxes on electronic cigarettes and smokeless and loose tobacco that take effect today.

Veteran police officer Sean Wetherson said when he was initially hospitalized after suffering a medical emergency in late August while on duty, he thought he had died.
"I didn't see a bright light or anything," he said. "Just darkness. Darkness.

William "Billy" Callan, Jr.

Patricia Rommel Shuster, mother of Rep. Bill Shuster, R-9th District, and the wife of former congressman Bud Shuster, died Wednesday, according to an obituary.
Shuster, of Everett, was 84. She died after a brief period in hospice care.