Jefferson County News

The Powerball jackpot is $600 million dollars. And it has many around the country, as well as here in central PA stir crazy for the big drawing.

Fire destroyed a Jefferson County house Thursday evening and investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the blaze.

The House Republican majority plans to introduce a state budget bill before the month's end that will reflect a tighter state revenue picture and not include any savings from curbing public pension costs, House Appropriations Chairman Bill Adolph said today.

Statistics show about 1 in 5 relationships now begin online, but as one woman found some people might be falling in love others might be falling for a scam.

There are over 500 school districts in Pennsylvania, 58 locally and three in Jefferson County; at Brockway Area School District for the third time in 4 years a teacher has been nominated for teacher of the year.

A bill to require state and local officials to file their annual financial disclosure statements electronically was introduced by Sen.

Governor Tom Corbett and Secretary of Education Ron Tomalis today announced the 12 educators who have been selected as finalists for Pennsylvania's 2014 Teacher of the Year.

She and her husband arrived in Papua New Guinea on the Fourth of July 1969 to work with Wycliff Bible Translators, producing literacy materials and translating the New Testament.

Jefferson County sheriff's deputies on Saturday arrested a Pennsylvania man as a fugitive from justice on a warrant from his home state.

THERE'S SOME semigood news and the usual bad news regarding needed reforms in Pennsylvania government and politics.

The Jefferson County Commissioners proclaimed that the month of May will be Older Americans Month in Jefferson County, a time to recognize and honor older adults and the people who care for them.

A Jefferson County man who robbed multiple local businesses learned he will spend 10-30 years in state prison.