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Former state representative Bill DeWeese is back in the news with word that the state Democratic Party has filed a lawsuit to force him to withdraw from the upcoming Nov. 6 general election.DeWeese, 62, of Waynesburg resigned the seat he held for three decades shortly before he was sentenced to ...

Just punishment

Before dawn on Sunday, workers showed up at Penn StateĢƵ Beaver Stadium, put up a chain-link fence to keep spectators at bay and draped the fence in a blue tarp to block TV cameras.They then proceeded to jackhammer from its base the 7-foot tall, 900-pound statue of Joe Paterno whose name is ...

Pennsylvania turning back the clock

Fourteenth.Fifteenth.Seventeenth.Nineteenth.Twenty-fourth.Twenty-sixth.The Constitution has been amended six times to expand the right to vote — more than any other purpose. The 14th, 15th, 17th, 19th, 24th and 26th amendments all seek to grow the electorate, on the path — eventually and ...

Cold war

A recent study that found that parents exposed to cold viruses are less than half as likely to become ill as nonparents runs counter to the experience of many moms and dads with their little germ factories — uh, darling children.The studyĢƵ leader, Sheldon Cohen, a professor of psychology ...

Red Hot Poker

Once you see a clump of Red Hot Poker, Kniphofia uvaria, you likely won’t soon forget it.This early summer perennial sends its flower stems straight up from thick crowns of sword-shaped leaves. The clusters of flowers are quite dense at the top of the stems and begin to bloom from the bottom ...

Misplaced priorities

Colleges tackle football playoff problemAmericaĢƵ institutions of higher learning face a daunting multitude of problems.Rapidly rising costs. Greatly diminished support from state legislatures for public colleges and universities. Students graduating with crushing debt loads that will take a ...