Gap News

Officials at the National Guard's Eastern Aviation Training Site here yesterday unveiled the new UH-72A Lakota light utility helicopter, for which they will become the military's sole trainers.

'Come on down!' Contestants guess retail values for prizes on TV's longest-running game show.

Administrators of Pennsylvania's state-owned university system say they need to fill a roughly $32 million budget gap for the 2008-09 school year.

An early morning fire Tuesday caused an estimated $200,000 in damage to a Paradise restaurant, investigators said.

LIFE DOESN'T END WITH FIBROMYALGIA For 12 years, Melvin G. Fromm Jr., of Gap, trained in karate for 2!\q1-w hours daily.

U.S. Route 220/Route 26 between the Pleasant Gap and the Zion exits will be closed until late tonight p.m. as emergency crews deal with an overturned tanker carrying a hazardous chemical.

From Skycam 16 investigators can be seen looking for clues where a man's body was found along Hypsie Gap Road near Reeders Thursday morning.

Pocono Monday: Laws found inconvenient in Stroudsburg; get ready for jury duty, even if you didn't vote.

Here's one I've been thinking about for years - and frankly wanted to forget about - but PennDOT wouldn't leave bad enough alone, so here we are: Among the weirdest things we've run across - literally - might ...

Discovery Daycare employee Erin Gallagher plays with a group of children Thursday in the baby room of the State College facility.

About 4,000 Pennsylvania Army National Guard members, including some from central Pennsylvania, are among 33,000 U.S. troops who could be sent to Iraq early next year.

Starting tomorrow, the Pennsylvania National Guard is offering free guided tours of a rare butterfly colony at Fort Indiantown Gap in Lebanon County.

When the congregation of St. John's United Church of Christ in Larimer in Westmoreland County designated Florence Welsh as their "saint," they were recognizing a woman who spent her life serving others.

Native Americans Jeanne and Jerry McDonald, of New Stamford, Conn. Jerry McDonald participated in the first Longest Walk 30 years ago as a teenager and is walking again this year.

No one can keep track of all of the routine meetings that take place inside the federal government.

AT 522 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

A 21-year-old kickboxing instructor from Short Gap is the new Miss West Virginia.

Amphibians are noted for their unusual life cycles: being born in water, living part of their lives as aquatic animals and then living on land.

Twenty-eight soldiers will leave in September for Mississippi for additional training.

Editor's note: This column highlights some of high and low spots in the recent news.