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Public phone booths have largely disappeared from the streetscape, despite lingering nostalgia for them held by antique collectors, Hollywood screenwriters and the occasional retired phone repairman.

Victor Almon McKusick, M.D., University Professor of Medical Genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, one of the two distinguished Johns Hopkins geneticists for whom the McKusick-Nathans ...

South Western York scored seven runs in the final two innings and pulled away to a 9-3 triumph over Suburban York on Monday in a York County American Legion Baseball League game at York.

With energy prices going through the roof, an alternative lifestyle powered by solar panels and wind turbines has suddenly become more appealing to some.

With energy prices going through the roof, an alternative lifestyle powered by solar panels and wind turbines has suddenly become more appealing to some.

The Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx is a well-known phenomenon in sporting circles. via The Morning Call

Three Bethlehem Area School Board members say they didn't know about a rebuke of Superintendent Joseph Lewis and one of his top assistants, and accuse their president and vice president of further polarizing the board by writing the letter.

On district letterhead and dated April 28, the letter accuses Lewis and Assistant Superintendent Stanley J. Majewski Jr. of withholding financial information at an April 23 budget meeting. The letter, signed by six school directors, praises the board for being ''very magnanimous'' in trying to balance the budget. Read more

“I don't buy the meats like I used to.”

Pretty soon, the birds will have to start fending for themselves. It's hard enough for York Township resident Richard Sterner to buy groceries for himself and his wife, he said. via York Dispatch

Two churches are taking food orders for an April 26 delivery from the nonprofit group Angel Food Ministries, which provides grocery relief to communities. via The York Daily Record

Dorota Gasienica-Kozak has joined King, Spry, Herman, Freund, & Faul, LLC of Bethlehem as a partner. via The Morning Call

“There's not a lot of worry about Republican and Democrat”

Aaron Washington of York said he never had much time for politics before Barack Obama came along. via InYork

Otterbein United Methodist Church of Spry in York Township will distribute food ordered through its Angel Food Ministry 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the church, 50 School St. via The York Daily Record

“I think we ought to let it all hang out because when somebody is stricken with cancer, or heart disease, or Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, they ought to know they are not alone”

Sen. Arlen Specter knows a thing or two about bad health. Spry and physically fit at age 78, he also has a few secrets about living.

In a new book, Specter, already looking ahead to his next re-election fight in 2010, chronicles the painful chemotherapy treatments that left him bald in 2005 as he played a very public role chairing the committee that confirmed Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

Specter, a five-term Republican who is Pennsylvania's longest-serving senator, credits getting up every day for work with getting him through the treatments for Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph system. He said he was motivated to write his book, 'Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate,' because he wanted to be instructive and inspiring to others. Read more

“It really looked like a war zone that day. It was amazing no one was killed or seriously injured”

A muddy, barren lot is all that remains of a house that exploded at 2433 S. Queen St. via The York Daily Record

“It was a very quick decision, and I thought it should have maybe entailed a little more discussion”

The Bethlehem Area School Board late Tuesday night fired district solicitor Sweet, Stevens, Tucker and Katz of Doylestown, Pa. via Express-Times

“I think it's a demand on the time of local religious officials to perform that function”

The new county commissioners board on Wednesday revealed its first policy change minutes into its first meeting, replacing the invocation that normally opened the sessions with a "silent meditation." The move ... via The York Daily Record

“They gained skills ... and learned to talk to people.”

Roberto Candela carefully rolled a stainless steel cart carrying several serving bowls filled with stuffing. via The York Daily Record

“Overall, I believe ST79 is better and more inclusive of the ever-changing world of CS”

In this new year, more central service community members will become familiar with two sterilization standards that were updated in late 2006, and will also find help from another update that is expected any ... via Infection Control Today