12.13.12 |
Pennsylvania’s dramatic 30-year, 525 percent rise in prison population appears to have ended, or at least hit an historic lull. After a year-end high of 51,487 inmates in 2009, the state’s prison population has remained relatively ...
12.12.12 |
New York and six other states plan to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over methane emissions from oil and gas drilling. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman claims in a release Tuesday that the EPA is violating the Clean Air Act by ...
12.12.12 |
A town in upstate New York won a neat honor this week. Rochester, New York's volunteers are ranked second in the nation, behind only Minneapolis, Saint Paul. The annual Volunteering in America survey, sponsored by the federal government, listed the ...
12.12.12 |
State health experts say cases of the virus have been reported in 47 counties in New York, and the number of cases in Pennsylvania has doubled in the past week, and half the state has been hit. Pediatrician Dr. Robin Altman tells Family Life News, ...
12.12.12 |
There will soon be quicker appeals for kids in detention centers in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania State Supreme Court, reacting to the Kids-For-Cash scandal, adopted new rules that will speed appeals by Juvenile offenders who challenge their ...
12.11.12 |
Alliance Defending Freedom is calling on the nine most powerful justices in America, the U.S. Supreme Court, to hear the case. A lower court has struck down prayer at public meetings in the Rochester suburb - unless and until - officials are ...
12.11.12 |
The Navy seal who laid down his life to rescue a Christian doctor in Afghanistan has now been identified. And he was a native of Monroeville, Pennsylvania. That's in western Pennsylvania, in Pittsburgh's eastern suburbs. Petty Officer Nicholas ...
12.11.12 |
There are now 41 cases and 110 individuals suing the federal government over the H.H.S. mandate in President Obama's Affordable Care Act. It's the provision that forces faith-based employers to offer abortive care. Liberty Council President Matt ...
12.11.12 |
Fire district elections are today across New York state. Voters across the state will elect hundreds of fire district commissioners today. What is a fire district commissioner? They control how your tax dollars are spent in a firehouse, and more ...
