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Almost three weeks after the demolition of the former Oil City Hospital’s Rowe Building began, workers from Bert Klapec Inc. of Oil City this week separated the salvageable metals from the crumbled brick and cement of the former nursing school. By Jerry Sowden More...
The plan is aimed at helping Franklin Middle School students.

Franklin Middle School has designed a plan to help struggling students reach required levels on state achievement tests. More...

Any good firefighter knows how to rescue a cat from a tree — Cooperstown volunteers recently faced a much larger challenge. About 1,000 pounds larger to be exact. The rather strange call was made to Venango County 911 on Monday — a cow was drowning in a pond along Wilson Mill Road in Cooperstown. More...

KNOX — Keystone School Board members have rejected re-establishing the position of an in-school police officer, also known as a school resource officer. Officially, board members cited cost concerns and the improved ability of school administrators to handle disciplinarily problems in voting this week to reject the proposal by a 6-3 margin. More...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors assailed the Democrats’ newly minted health care legislation Thursday as a collection of tax increases, Medicare cuts and heavy new burdens for deficit-ridden states. More...
The Oil and Gas Journal magazine is reporting Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale has been a “hotbed of activity” this fall. In a report on the journal’s article, the Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Association (POGAM) outlined the distribution of drilling permits. Some highlights include: More...
CLARION — The Clarion County Sheriff’s Department would like the public’s help finding two area fugitives. The first, Danny Joe Bowser, 36, is wanted for failure to appear for plea court on an initial charge of hindering apprehension. Bowser is 5-feet, 9-inches tall, weighs approximately 150 pounds and has brown hair and hazel eyes. More...
Snarl is latest in series of woes for agency
ATLANTA (AP) — For the second time in a little more than a year, a glitch at one of the two centers that handle flight plans for the nation’s air travel system set off delays and cancellations for passengers around the country. More...
Editor: Let me ask Carol Harris a question (Oct. 30 letter, “All of us can lighten the burden”). If I came and stole money from you in order to give it to someone else to provide for their health care, you would likely want me arrested. Why then is it acceptable when our government does it. Our Founding Fathers had a few thoughts on the subject. More...
Last week: 12-6, .667 Season: 322-67, .828 Q. — What do Hickory, Greenville and Wilmington have in common other than being members of Region 3 in football? More...
The Giants’ ace .. becomes only the third NL pitcher to win the award in back-to-back seasons.
NEW YORK (AP) — San Francisco Giants ace Tim Lincecum won the NL Cy Young Award on Thursday for the second straight year, emerging from one of the tightest votes in the history of the honor to become the first repeat winner since Randy Johnson. More...

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