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At Lincoln University, students with a body mass index of 30 or above are required to take a thrice-weekly fitness course.

Obese students at a historically black college near Philadelphia won't have to take a fitness class to graduate after all.

When he first came to Chester, Daniel King drew crowds to a church parking lot with the sweet, smoky smell of barbecue.

Four years ago, Lincoln University, a historically African American school in Oxford, Pennsylvania, instituted a requirement that all freshmen entering the school with a body mass index greater than 30, and thus technically obese, would either have to lose weight over the next four years or take a one-semester health class, "Fitness for Life," in ...

A 1999 Ford operated by Thomas Jordan of Hanover collided with a parked 1994 Ford owned by Peggy Trimmer of Hanover.

Following are the top prices recorded with the city and counties Sept. 1-4. Philadelphia 3827 The Oak Rd.

Happy Thanksgiving! We now interrupt our regularly scheduled programming for this important announcement: Pan to a raft of kids doing sit-ups, broken-field sprints, and jumping jacks.

Lincoln University is refusing to give diplomas to two dozen obese students who ditched a health class.

Lincoln University, a historically black institution in Pennsylvania, doesn't have much in the way of a core curriculum .

Birds are colorful and entertaining, worthy of cultivating for their own sake, but we had a darker purpose.

Oxford and Washington township officials have advanced in talks about merging their police departments to an exploration of grant opportunities to aid a transition.

A New Oxford, Pa. teen has pleaded guilty to all charges stemming from a DUI accident that left another teen dead.

By the time Lincoln University junior Amelia Sherwood found a moth in her salad last month, she was fed up.

ACCIDENT: A New Oxford woman was killed Monday morning when she drove into a house on Centennial Road, according to Pennsylvania State Police, Gettysburg.

Joe Larena, a nursing student at Warren County Community College, administers a flu vaccine to Dorothy Fentzlaff, of Washington, during the Warren County Public Health Nursing Agency drive-up clinic held at St Luke's Lutheran Church in Washington.

Facing a large number of tax appeals this year, Hope and Oxford townships are planning to look at reducing the taxable values of all properties in the municipalities.

A 2006 Ford operated by Joshua Miner of Hanover collided with a 2004 GMC operated by Kimberly Miller of New Oxford.

Vendors will sell apples, cider, dumplings and apple pie. The Market Grill will have apple fritters and chocolate-dipped apples, and the Carmelcorn Shop will have caramel and candy apples.

7:53 p.m. Suspicious circumstances were reported at a residence in the first block of East Middle Street.

Yazoo Mills Inc. , a manufacturer of paper tubes and cores, is expanding its headquarters facility for the seventh time.