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Gov. Edward G. Rendell announced Pennsylvania applied for nearly $500,000 through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to enhance and modernize the state's Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, administered by the Department of Health.

Millersville University computer science professor Roger Webster is creating surgical simulation equipment that could revolutionize how traumatic eye injuries are treated.

Joseph D. Giardina, 78, 339 E. Jamestown Road, died at 3:40 a.m. Wednesday, June 3, 2009, at St.

Jason Cato can be reached via e-mail or at 412-325-4301. ATM transactions might cost a number of financial institutions and operators in Western Pennsylvania more than a nominal fee if they lose a rash of lawsuits filed in federal court in Pittsburgh.

Six homes were evacuated for a couple hours Monday afternoon after a contractor hit a natural gas main at 51 Edgewood Drive in Pymatuning Township.

Spring has arrived and our thoughts are already turning to summer. Once again The Herald plans to give its readers a chance to mark their calendars so they don't miss longtime local favorites like Fredonia Old Home Week and the Transfer Harvest Home.

Audrey M. Raiti, 87, passed away at 11:50 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, 2009, at Sharon Regional Health System.

Registration begins at 9 a.m. at both locations: Sharon City Centre parking lot , downtown Sharon, and in Jamestown .

Two weeks ago, the Undergraduate Assembly passed a resolution calling on the school to "condense and clarify" its policy on the intellectual property rights of students.

Metallurgical products manufacturer Greenville Metals Inc. of Transfer in Mercer County is permanently laying off 38 employees, the result of a company reorganization.

It's nuclear winter on Washington Square. Well, a postapocalyptic nightmare anyway, happening 10 floors above the historic park in the Curtis Center, the block-long building where the Saturday Evening Post's presses long ago rolled.

A school district swap is in the spotlight in Bucks County today. Riegelsville residents who want out of the Easton Area School District are making their case to a judge.

A Transfer man was hurt when his vehicle rolled onto its roof Wednesday evening on Carlisle Road in South Pymatuning Township and a township police officer is being hailed for assisting him.

Zac Weikal, 17, of Transfer, Daniel Cochran, 17, of Hadley, and Beth Stevenson, 15, of Salem Township, pause from play practice to show off the puppets they'll work in Greenville Area Christian Homeschoolers ...

Several days into the official start of his unit's mission in Iraq, the commander of an Army National Guard battalion from central Pennsylvania says a partnership already is being developed between his soldiers ...

TRANSFER, Pa. a ' Club Pet Adoptiona TMs second annual reverse raffle dinner will take place April 25 at Reynolds VFW, 115 Edgewood Drive, Transfer.

Qualified veterans will be able to earn a degree tuition-free at Westminster College, a top tier private liberal arts college in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

A major figure in the Alle-Kiski's "China White" drug case of the 1980s is accused of bank robbery.

Get breaking news and daily headlines. Browse all e-mail newsletters THE BIG PICTURE: $26.6 billion in taxes, fees and surpluses $2.4 billion in federal stimulus money No increase in income or sales taxes ...

State Rep. Camille "Bud" George, D-74 of Houtzdale, said the public is invited to a hearing to be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Feb.