Franklin News

The Delaware River Port Authority continued to pay for its past financial adventures yesterday, even as it prepared to borrow an additional $510 million for new spending.

While most people associate Thanksgiving with New England and the Pilgrims, few are aware of the importance of our state to the holiday.

Eager for shot: Residents crowd 450 Cleveland Ave. in Chambersburg Friday. The H1N1 vaccine is being administered for free by the state Department of Health today and tomorrow.

An Ebensburg area man died Thursdayas the tractor he was driving rolled over onto him.

Pennsylvania State Police have confirmed for CBS 21 News that the body of a man found in Menallen Township, Adams County Wednesday afternoon was that of Chad Stroup, 26, of Columbia, Lancaster County.

The barriers to getting started with a micro-distilling operation aren't easily surmounted.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania said Monday its board of directors has given it the go-ahead to invest $950,000 in five early-stage Pennsylvania companies.

Smoldering: Smoke puffs Sunday from the side of Everett Fergusons house at 2154 Sollenberger Road.

The Apollo Area Historical Society will take a day trip for the silver anniversary celebration of the Oglebay Winter Festival of Lights in Wheeling, W.Va. on Dec.

Revised: Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario has signed off on the planned reorganization of the 257-year-old, Ben Franklin-founded Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire, known as the Hand-in-Hand for the sign that marks 5,000 homes and buildings it insures.

The Japanese term ''shiatsu'' refers to a type of massage, so it's redundant to say ''Shiatsu massage parlor.'' It's like saying ''massage massage parlor,'' or ''Rio Grande River.'' The words ''shiatsu massage'' have appeared several times in news stories, and not always about the massage parlor at the center of a legal dispute involving North ...

The seeds of the American revolution were planted on the colonial frontier around Mercersburg, McConnellsburg and Fort Loudon a decade before the Sons of Liberty complained about taxation without representation in the cities to the east.

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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.