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Patrons of the Adamstown Area Library are thankful to Edward and Carol Stoudt.The owners of the Black Angus Restaurant and Stoudt's Brewing Co., the Stoudts donated $9,200 for new computers for the library from funds the couple raised last year durin...

DALLAS - It was the same time: 12:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 22. It was the same place: downtown Dallas.But 50 years later, the thousands of people who filled Dealey Plaza weren't there to cheer but to remember in quiet sadness the young, handsome preside...

The Associated PressWASHINGTON - There won't be a magic moment, but the Obama administration's much-maligned health insurance website should be able to weather an expected year-end crush of customers, officials asserted Friday.A combination of softwa...

Bloomberg News.WASHINGTON - Public support for the U.S. health care overhaul fell to its lowest level in a Kaiser Family Foundation survey after the Oct. 1 debut of government-run insurance marketplaces greeted consumers with website outages, higher ...

Garden and play area is designed to help kids recover from bad experiences

Editor:Really? Another mission to Mars? Are we serious? I love outer space as much as the next guy, but we have enough to deal with here on Earth. The space race of the Cold War is over. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy died with his dreams, and the...

Editor:What will it take to get through to President Barack Obama?We are drowning in red ink, his approval rating is as low as it can get, his masterful plan to socialize our health care system is flopping like a dying fish. Yet this man has the gall...

Editor:I am writing in response to the letter by Robert Lee Horst ("All have right to self-defense," Reading Eagle, Nov 16).He said that self-defense is a God-given right. Self-defense may come under state laws, which vary from state to state. God's ...

Editor:Concerning the possible sale of the Reading Royals ("Royals owners put team up for sale," Reading Eagle, Nov. 15), would it be such a crazy idea to sell shares of the team to the public? It seems to work well for the NFL's Green Bay Packers.Da...

The Issue: The country makes a slight alteration to its one-child policy, which has been in place since 1980. Our Opinion: The move won't significantly impact other problems caused by limiting couples to a single birth.Perhaps any move away from Chin...