12.12.12 | Sarah Harnisch
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 | Sarah Harnisch
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 | Sarah Harnisch
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 | Sarah Harnisch
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 | Sarah Harnisch
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 | Sarah Harnisch
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 | Sarah Harnisch
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 | Sarah Harnisch
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 ...
12.07.12 | Sarah Harnisch
Researchers found more New Yorkers support high volume hydrofracking of the Marcellus Shale then those who oppose it. In the Family Life newsroom, our first check was to make sure the poll wasn't backed by a gas company, and it's legit conducted by ...
12.07.12 | Sarah Harnisch
The mayor of Ithaca is urging the New York state legislature to legalize marijuana. In an editorial to the Times Union, mayor Svante Myrick says he has "directed the Ithaca police department to focus on other issues that will more effectively ...