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NY Abortion Rate Highest In The Nation

02.27.13 | Sarah Harnisch

60 percent of pregnancies among 15 to 19 year olds end in abortion in New York, according to new figures from the Guttmacher Institute. The Institute says New York sets a culture that makes it acceptable to have an abortion, and it's an easy state ...

C. Everett Koop Goes Home

02.26.13 | Sarah Harnisch

C. Everett Koop, America's rock star Surgeon General, passed away at his home Monday at the age of 96. The cause of death has not been released. The nation's 'Top Doc' served as Surgeon General for eight years during the Reagan administration, a ...

Christians Are Mobilizing Behind the Boy Scouts

02.22.13 | Sarah Harnisch

On Thursday, the Southern Baptist Convention did an all-call to people of faith and christian businesses, to raise money for the Scouts so they don't have to rely financially on groups that support gay rights. They said "we called on businesses and ...

11 Lawmakers Come To Hobby Lobby's Aid

02.21.13 | Sarah Harnisch

A group of lawmakers has come to christian craft store Hobby Lobby's defense. A legal brief was filed this week by 9 senators and 2 representatives in the U.S. Court of appeals, saying the Obama administration violatd a federal law they passed. ...

GED Students Need To Wrap Up 5-Part Test By End of Year

02.18.13 | Sarah Harnisch

A million students, including thousands from New York and Pennsylvania, that are working on their GED (their high school equivalency diploma), have to finish it in 2013 or start all over again. GED testing services will introduce a new version of ...

Watch The Asteroid Fly By Live

02.15.13 | Sarah Harnisch

A 150 foot-wide asteroid will complete a remarkably close, but safe, flyby. For weeks, scientists have been tracking the path of the small near-Earth asteroid known as 2012 DA14, which is on course to swing by the Earth today at 2:24 p.m. Again, ...

Use of The Morning After Pill Is Up

02.14.13 | Sarah Harnisch

One in nine women say they have used the morning after pill, according to the government's first study on the pill since it was approved 15 years ago. It's available to anyone over 17 without a prescription. In a non-government study taken in 2006, ...

Friday's Storm Lives Up To It's Fury

02.11.13 | Sarah Harnisch

Did Friday's snowstorm stack up to the reports? In a word, yes. Parts of western New York logged 11 inches of snow, 6 in the Southern Tier, and 8 inches for Ithaca. 40 inches were charted in Hamden Connecticut, enough to bury a small child. ...

It Costs You An Extra Quarter A Gallon To Fill Up

02.11.13 | Sarah Harnisch

Gas prices have jumped nearly a quarter in the last 2 weeks. And that's bad news in New York and Pennsylvania, where we're both already well above the national average. Nationally, a gallon of regular gas is 3-59. The rise, due to a spike in ...

National Prayer Breakfast Thursday In D.C.

02.06.13 | Sarah Harnisch

The National Prayer Breakfast is tomorrow morning in Washington D.C. Several lawmakers spoke about their faith on the house floor this week in advance of the breakfast. Oklahoma Congressman James Langford gave his testimony before all of his ...

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