Punxsutawney News

Groundhog Club handler Ron Ploucha holds Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, during the 126th celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa.

When I was growing up, I worshiped news reporters and the interesting job they did, imagining what it would be like to be one of them.

Punxsutawney Phil left his burrow at 7:20 a.m. Feb. 2 at Gobblers Knob in Punxsutawney, Penn., observed the weather conditions, looked for his shadow and, after seeing it, predicted six more weeks of winter.

Police seized heroin, crack cocaine, cash and more in a search of a South Main Street residence where two men were also taken into custody Thursday morning.

Wednesday and into Thursday morning someone entered Breezy Hill Hardwoods in Pine Creek Township and stole $3,850 worth of goods.

A group of high school students in Altoona got a first hand view of how Washington reacts in a time of crisis.

There were no injuries reported in a two-vehicle accident that occurred at 3:05 p.m. Wednesday near Nelson's Mini-Mart on Route 119 north, Young Township.

First-graders at The Bolles School have been prognosticating with the best of them - Punxsutawney Phil.

Ms. Riggs' Kindergarten class at Aikin Elementary saw their shadows yesterday morning and concur with Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil from the town of Punxsutawney, PA, that there will be 6 more weeks of winter.

A Inspired by NOAA:A Groundhog Day Background and Folklore according to NOAA Every February 2nd crowds gather at Gobbler's Knob, in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to get a glimpse of the prognosticator of prognosticators.

Misty Scruton of Punxsutawney has been charged with attempting to provide a drug free urine after police say she tried to use a friend's pee for a drug test at the Jefferson County Adult Probation Department.

Stahle Took the Property John Stahle bought the other day, for his wife, the Ben Carter property, near the Mager House, in Young township, for a consideration of $450. The property belongs to Thomas Edmonson, of Adrian, and there was a little case before the justice of the peace in which Mr.

ROME: The big chill gripping Europe, leaving 260 people dead, has spread across the northern hemisphere with snow storms battering the US, north Africa, Japan and Afghanistan.

And so here we are already in the shortest month of the year and looking longingly to March.

WEATHER forecasters are the Rodney Dangerfields of the prognosticating arts -- they get no respect.

In this Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 file photo, Punxsutawney Phil, the weather predicting groundhog, center, stands on the shoulder of one of his handlers John Griffiths while looking at other handler Ben Hughes, after the Groundhog Club claimed that Phil did not see his shadow and winter has ended on Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pa.

It doesn't make much difference. Phil has an accuracy rate of about 39 percent, according to the StormFax Weather Almanac.

Stephen Colbert laments the loss of Candlemas, the "ancient Christo-pagan rite celebrating the presentation of the Christ child at the Temple" that is the origin of Groundhog Day.

In a victory for citizens' power, the state Supreme Court on Friday directed a state commission to draw up a new reapportionment plan for state legislative districts that hews more closely to all constitutional mandates.

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to a level that signaled a steadily improving job market.