Franklin News

All Press Releases for November 07, 2009>> The new Miller SafEscape ELITE Rescue/Descent Device from Miller Fall Protection meets all applicable safety standards throughout the world.

Before they ever heard of a federal stimulus package or the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, township officials had their $10 million sanitary sewage project ready to go.

In a startling trend, the new standard for private college tuition has hit $50,000 per year, according to data compiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education .

Franklin and Fulton voters gave the thumbs up to Court of Common Pleas Judge Carol Van Horn Tuesday, with an overwhelming majority of the voters in the two counties choosing to keep her on the bench for another 10 years.

The statue stares out ominously, muscles all red-orange and eyes blotted out. He is crouched up and angled forward on his skateboard, but there is no mistaking that he is a cadaver, pouncing at the audience almost ghoulishly.

Kent and Jean Kleinschmidt explored the Allegheny River Trail during a trip in October.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania has awarded grants to three York County companies.

A judge has ordered a central Pennsylvania woman to stand trial on charges she fatally struck a police officer with her car and later tried to destroy evidence in the case.

Departmental de Pennsylvania Salon 20 had its fall pouvior in Holiday Inn Convention Center, New Cumberland.

Allentown Police investigate the scene of a shooting at Chew and Franklin Streets.

WAYNESBURG, Pa. - The first energy-producing windmill has been erected in Greene County, located in the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania, The Skystream 3.7 windmill was erected by Tri State Electricity of Waynesburg.

October 22, 2009, 12:56 AM / Harold DiMarco, a 79-year-old retired salesman from Lancaster, said he was under so much stress from losing his life savings and from having introduced friends to invest with Richard S. Piccoli that he suffered a heart attack in January.

Franklin County's three sitting judges have chosen a Pennsylvania Army National Guard criminal law chief and former assistant district attorney -- Matthew Fogal -- as a replacement for the late Jack Nelson.

Van Andrews, aka DJ Chozen, and Trevor "Precise" Grimes are studying southcentral Pennsylvania maps.

Police say an escaped black bull roamed a central Pennsylvania town for two hours before being tranquilized and captured.

In a split decision, a U.S. appeals court upheld the convictions of animal-rights activists charged under a terrorism statute with using their Web site to incite threats and vandalism against a company that tests products on animals.

By the time several hundred Wegmans employees had massed inside the new Collegeville supermarket to perform the traditional opening-day cheer early yesterday morning, lines of shoppers already were snaking along two sides of the building.

Over the last year, Pennsylvania State Police Troop H made more DUI arrests locally than in any other troop, according to a press release sent out last week.

By early 2010 a ramshackle house in East Conemaugh and one in need of a face-lift in Moxham should be renovated and for sale to low-income families.

The Chesapeake Bay remains a Clean Water catastrophe more than 20 years after the states in the watershed began working together to cut pollution.