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Julie Stinar once worked with some of the top names in fashion: Donna Karan, Giorgio Armani, Tracy Reese.

The Kentucky Board of Education has named four out of state applicants as finalists for commissioner of education.

Andre McGee, left, and Jason Rivers show the students statistics of Black male unemployment rates and educational attainment levels.

Penn State University wants the Obama administration to stop Gov. Ed Rendell from reclassifying it and three other state-related universities as non-public and ineligible for $42 million in federal stimulus aid.

Rob Frieden, Pennsylvania State University, College of Communications, and Dickinson College of Law, has published "Invoking and Avoiding the First Amendment: How Internet Service Providers Leverage Their Status as Both Content Creators and Neutral Conduits." Here is the abstract.

Prize-winning columnist Steve Lopez said the work of newspaper columnists has become more important than ever in the wild and wooly frontier of digital communications.

I finally got a chance to attend a workshop in the Digital Cities series last week at the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies at Penn State University .

Jon and Kate Gosselin don't live in Montgomery County, Pa. So why are the stars of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" getting divorced there? One likely answer: to take advantage of an unusual local rule that keeps prying eyes away from divorce records.

Government-backed companies once brought blackouts to Eastern Europe and produced Russia's clunky Lada car.

In a further sign that Gov. Ed Rendell no longer views them as truly public campuses, the four state-related universities have been removed from the state's application for federal stimulus money to aid public higher education.

With the summer season in full swing and more people spending time outdoors, it's important for area residents to be aware and familiarize themselves with the critters they share nature with.

Lancaster Public Library employees and volunteers caught some sunlight Tuesday as they slowly proceeded down Duke Street with 500 feet of stapled postcards.

Question: What would life on Earth be like if there were no Moon? Answer: So different maybe there'd be no intelligent life here to pose the question, says Penn State University geoscientist James Kasting.

Hilton Hotels Corporation today announced the appointment of Matthew W. Schuyler as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer.

WHEN President Obama meets today with Chile's President Michelle Bachelet, I hope he will demand an accounting on the fate of my brother, Professor Boris Weisfeiler.

On Wednesday, as thousands of protesters continued to fill the streets in central Iran, the state-run media reported that the Iranian Foreign Ministry expressed displeasure at "interventionist" statements by American officials.

There is irony in the fact that Betsy Aardsma left the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor - in 1969 the stalking grounds of a serial killer - for the relative safety of State College, Pennsylvania, only to be murdered on the campus of Penn State University.

A new American study claims that higher concentrations of melanin may be placing smokers with darker skins at increased risk of nicotine dependence, than lighter skinned people.

Hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of times a day, for hour after hour after hour, Megan and Natalie Monroig, of Northumberland, must maintain their focus, both literally and figuratively.

As post-election demonstrations continued in Iran yesterday, many local Iranian-Americans said they were skeptical that a fair election could be achieved.