09.03.13 |
We have some more information on free associates degrees for 6-thousand high schoolers in New York. The program is called P-tech, and the Empire state is rolling out a pilot program of it in September 2014 in 10 different regions. It would be an ...
09.03.13 |
A federal jury in New York has rejected the argument that the use of the n-word among blacks can be a culturally acceptable term of love and endearment. Jurors awarded 250-thousand dollars to a black employment agency worker who was target of an ...
09.02.13 |
When students return to school this week in New York state, it'll be with 12-and-a-half thousand fewer teachers than just a couple years ago. The state's teachers' retirement system said the pension system had more than 273-thousand active members ...
09.02.13 |
Elmira, New York continues to mourn the deaths of 4 children in a house fire. More than a hundred people gathered for a candlelight vigil over the weekend for the victims of Friday night's deadly house fire on Morrow street. Those who came ...
09.02.13 |
A committee formed ten years ago to create a memorial at the sight of the Flight 93 crash in western Pennsylvania, is about to meet for the last time. Fifteen people from around the country and from all walks of life dutifully gathered quarterly in ...
09.02.13 |
According to a new analysis by the financial website Bankrate.com, Pennsylvania motorists spend an average of $2,764 annually to operate their vehicles. Those costs are significantly lower than the national average of $3,201. Overall, ...
08.30.13 |
New York's highest court has agreed to decide on an appeal from a drilling company and a farmer challenging municipal bans on high-volume hydro-fracking. The court of appeals, without comment, has accepted two cases where lower courts upheld bans ...
08.30.13 |
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett is backing off the language filed in his legal brief to defend traditional marriage in the Keystone state. In 25 pages of paperwork, there was one sentence that caught the eye of gays across the state, that ...
08.30.13 |
Officials in Hazleton in northeastern Pennsylvania will again look to the nation's highest court to bring closure to a seven-year legal battle over the city's never-enforced immigration ordinances. Mayor Joseph Yannuzzi confirmed that the city will ...
08.30.13 |
Scandal-tarnished former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has tumbled into a tie in the race for New York City Comptroller. There's less then two weeks before he faces off against democratic rival Scott Stinger in the city primary.
