It’s not often one learns an American warship has been named after a friend. That ship, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, designated DDG 121, now is under construction at the Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Well into his 80s, my printer grandfather each workday morning would don a tie, business suit with vest and part his hair in the center prior to ambling several residential blocks to his newspaper shop in the Illinois prairie village.
The audience was aghast. Moviegoers packing the theater at the U.S. Naval Facilities in Yokosuka, Japan, were literally stunned as Peter Sellers, playing the mentally deranged and physically crippled Dr. Strangelove, rose from his wheelchair to proclaim the benefits of global destruction — t…
Pennsylvania’s motor vehicle bureaucracy has determined that more than a few of the state’s drivers are more than a little confused — make that terrified — when it comes to mastering that most dreaded of roadway traffic-control devices: the roundabout.
My love affair with honest-to-God department stores has lingered at the terminal stage for years, but 2016 took the cake. Management at what once were the grand palaces of personal shopping just never got it — and they wonder why trade is dying off.
The second — and for many the best — day of Christmastide comes the day after Christmas itself. That, of course, is Boxing Day — a day of social obligation my French-Canadian grandmother never would let you forget.
Recent terrorist attacks in Ankara, Turkey, and Berlin, Germany, add to a growing list of incidents that are becoming increasingly difficult to remember. Does one begin the list with the plane hijackings in the ‘60s and ‘70s, or the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, or the USS Cole a…
How different was the world of 75 years past? Few Americans were looking past tomorrow when the bombs began falling on Pearl Harbor, Malaya and the Philippines. In a Sunday afternoon, the world turned upside down and the dreams of millions of people lay shattered.
Let’s shed tears for the handkerchief — it is dying, especially in the United States.
Having to eat crow in the wake of a presidential election prediction goes with the job. I got this one wrong. But it’s a double disappointment when an abiding faith in the judgment of the American voting public gets flushed down the tube in a mob-driven frenzy.
If, as the old saying goes, “ignorance is bliss,” claiming to be proud of such stupidity must be akin to approaching the rapture. How else does one explain the willingness of so many Trump supporters to disregard his childish meanness, misogyny and outright contempt for the Constitution?
Camouflage clothing with its myriad choice of patterns, it seems, is a really big deal, not only for military uniform designers but especially for civilian folks who never took the oath nor the Queen’s shilling.
When it comes to nuclear weapons, or the consideration of using such horrible forces to resolve basic human differences, it generally comes down to the unimaginable “when” and of course, the unknowable “who.”
Finding a certain friend’s or neighbor’s birthday used to be a matter of glancing at the local church calendar — usually hanging over the kitchen sink — where each date in a turnover month sheet contained (in small-point type) a list of congregants’ birthdays or religious festival days.
Cumberland County homes with at least five bedrooms.
There are several reasons your feet are very important to pay attention to when you have diabetes.
PennDOT is moving ahead with plans to turn it into a bike and pedestrian connectivity bridge across the Yellow Breeches Creek, connecting Cumberland York counties.
Fire crews were unable to save a South Middleton home that was destroyed following a Saturday evening fire and rekindling early Sunday morning.
A blast of air and dust from the implosion of two smokestacks at a shuttered coal-fired power plant in western Pennsylvania last week caused damage to nearby homes. But the demolition company is vowing full repairs. The implosion was Friday at the Cheswick Generating Station in Springdale. KDKA-TV reports that Controlled Demolition said one chimney’s steel liner “focused air pressure as it collapsed." A county emergency official says the air blast broke windows, blew dust into homes and caused a power surge that damaged electrical appliances. The company says repairs of minor damage are underway and “will be fully completed to the satisfaction of each property owner affected."
Pennsylvania lawmakers are back in session, as House Democrats are advancing a spending plan that could test Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro's ability to manage a politically divided Legislature in his freshman year. House Democrats on Monday unveiled and passed a spending plan that goes well beyond what Shapiro proposed for the fiscal year starting July 1. Democrats want more money for public schools and say strong tax collections this spring will support it. It's likely to get a chilly reception in the Republican Senate, however. There, GOP leaders were skeptical of Shapiro’s more modest spending proposal, citing forecasts of slowing tax collections, deficits and possibly a recession.
The bill passed 194-9 and goes to the state Senate.
The legislation cleared the House on a 189-14 vote, and goes to the Senate.
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Coroner Charley Hall reported that Kody Tidd, 28, was killed after a four-vehicle crash at the intersection of Route 944 and Deer Lane.
Judge Peter Lynch sentenced Hussain, who was shackled and wearing an orange jail uniform, to an indeterminate term of 5 to 15 years in prison.
The office of Magisterial District Judge Daniel J. Freedman has moved to a new location at 417 Village Drive in South Middleton Township.
Three Shippensburg residents, including a 13-year-old, died in a crash in Virginia early Tuesday, the Roanoke Times reported.
The bill passed 194-9 and goes to the state Senate.
The legislation cleared the House on a 189-14 vote, and goes to the Senate.
House Democrats propose more money for public schools and say strong tax collections during the spring will help support it.
Both chambers have passed versions of the measure that would temporarily waive the statute of limitations for sex abuse crimes, and the House voted for it with bipartisan support in February.