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I saw things that I will never unsee and discovered details so explicit that I will never be able to forget the karate-style murder of three elderly East Washington women on June 21, 1985. Although I typically write about my role as a Washington County commissioner, I’ve been thinking ...

During my time as bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg, I have quickly come to realize that the problem of human trafficking is far more serious in Pennsylvania than many of us (may) want to recognize. Victims and survivors include every demographic. They are men and women, adults and children, ...

It certainly is on its way to become the “it” phrase of 2025: data centers. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has fueled the rush to build data centers to crunch all the algorithmic permutations that are part and parcel to AI. And all that crunching takes a lot of ...

When nearly half of PennsylvaniaĢƵ third-graders can’t read at grade level, we don’t have an education gap; we have an emergency. It doesn’t matter if a child lives in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia or a small town like Cecil or McDonald – if they can’t read by third grade, the odds of ...

Saturday marked a meaningful anniversary for one Pennsylvania family. A year ago, Bryan Hagerich was finally released from wrongful detainment in Turks and Caicos and reunited with his loved ones. Bryan was among several Americans targeted by the Turks government after accidentally having ...

Over the past 20 years I have come to know many Ukrainians: friends I made during my visits to their country; journalists and professionals visiting the United States I helped to host; and the refugees I have been teaching as a volunteer tutor of English as a Second Language. I share with them ...