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It took more than 100 hours of work to achieve a first for La Academia Partnership Charter School.
Sixth graders Jasmine Santos and Jamie Autry toiled after school and on weekends to create the city charter school's first-ever project for the National History Day competition.
The two students were c...

"The fog comes on little cat feet," wrote Carl Sandburg. "It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on."
This short poem called "Fog," for me, is analogous to prostate cancer with one exception: Cancer does not just move on. Without sign or symptom in the early stages, i...

Authorities evacuated about 200 employees from the state welfare office on Manor Street for several hours Friday morning after an employee found a suspicious white powder inside an envelope, investigators said.

Six people who were exposed to the powder were taken to a local hospital to be deconta...

Because of her rousing and uplifting motivational speeches, Patricia Russell-McCloud has been called "the greatest orator of our time."
Each year, she speaks to more than 100,000 people from a wide variety of backgrounds.
And on Monday, Jan. 16, Russell-McCloud will bring her energy and enthusiasm t...

The Lancaster County Human Relations Commission disbanded on Dec. 17, 2010.

Since then, complaints of discrimination lodged in the county have been the jurisdiction of Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission and/or the newly created Fair Housing Center at Lancaster Housing Opportunity Partnership...

With nearly 800 rising to sing the National Anthem, Building One Pennsylvania's statewide meeting Thursday got off to a strong, unifying start. But it wasn't long before the coalition's big event took on a decidedly Democratic tone.

And that made for an unfortunate turn of events.

Building One...

There's a big divide in America that could be called "the tyranny of the ZIP code," a member of President Obama's cabinet said in Lancaster on Thursday.

If you live in the right ZIP code, with more access to opportunity, your chances of succeeding are much better.

And "while we have made real ...

Once again it's time to rock and roll with Rios and Roberts, the two guys who keep you up to date on the local music scene.

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McCleary's Public House in Marietta is back up and running after being flooded last month with something besides beer and paying custo...

Emmy award-winning actor and director Charles Dutton will present Millersville University's 2011 Carter G. Woodson Lecture.

Dutton's autobiographical one-man performance titled, "From Jail to Yale," will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Bright Side Baptist Church, 515 Hershey Ave.

"From Jai...

Landisville's Wayne Gray was born a full-gospel Pentecostal south of the border and early on became an enthusiastic fan of the late Mahalia Jackson, Dottie Rambo, Vestal Goodman and other great bygone Southern gospel singers.

Today, the preacher, singer, actor and antiques dealer laments the decl...