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A year-old bill aimed at eliminating discrimination against gay, bisexual and transgender Pennsylvanians has returned to the spotlight this month as a nationwide fight over public bathroom access rumbles on.
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When it comes to student exchange programs, no group is likely more recognized for sending high school students around the world than Rotary International.

EBENSBURG - When his parents asked then 14-year-old Vic Zhang if he wanted to leave his home in China and go to America to attend school at Bishop Carroll Catholic High School in Ebensburg, he didn't think they were serious.

The union that represents workers of the Altoona Water Authority has filed a grievance objecting to management's plan to leave the Easterly Sewer Treatment Plant unmanned on the night shift.

A pair of Fiore businesses and attorney Joe Grappone have filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the validity of business privilege taxes levied by three local governments - along with a demand for $11 million in refunds and elimination of $2.

A year-old bill aimed at eliminating discrimination against gay, bisexual and transgender Pennsylvanians has returned to the spotlight this month as a nationwide fight over public bathroom access rumbles on.
When Rep.

When it comes to student exchange programs, no group is likely more recognized for sending high school students around the world than Rotary International.

EBENSBURG - When his parents asked then 14-year-old Vic Zhang if he wanted to leave his home in China and go to America to attend school at Bishop Carroll Catholic High School in Ebensburg, he didn't think they were serious.

The union that represents workers of the Altoona Water Authority has filed a grievance objecting to management's plan to leave the Easterly Sewer Treatment Plant unmanned on the night shift.