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SAXONBURG, Pennsylvania -- Small businesses have been the backbone of the United States since its founding. The Hotel Saxonburg, which has also been known as the Vogeley House, the Belvedere House, the Laube House and the Central Hotel, opened in 1835 and has lasted most of our nation's existence.

Yesterday, the new owners abruptly closed the...Read more

JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania -- Alex Bambino, 21, is the son of two educators. He's busy working, welding a piece of material that will be used on a heavily armored military vehicle when finished. Despite two college-educated parents, who teach at the local Cambrian County schools, he wanted nothing to do with college following high school.

"I ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania -- Central Pennsylvania state Sen. Greg Rothman, the newly elected state Republican Party chairman, will face his first big challenge this year with the control of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on the ballot.

Rothman, who won the party chairmanship with overwhelming support in a 248-120 vote last month, will look to ...Read more

CAMPBELL, Ohio -- Sept. 19 marked 47 years since thousands of workers, who were mainly men, did what they did every Monday in the valley. They walked into the Campbell Works of Youngstown Sheet and Tube along the Mahoning River for the early shift.

Within an hour of the workers' shift, Youngstown Sheet and Tube abruptly furloughed 5,000 of ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania -- Some people are different in person than they are online. Not Scott Presler. He is as kind, soft-spoken and charismatic in person as he is when he posts about his mission to register voters as Republicans in Pennsylvania. This is true whether he is here at the Farm Show Complex or any of the scores of other events I...Read more

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio -- Vice President JD Vance said his return to the village of East Palestine on the second anniversary of the explosive train derailment was about more than just showing up.

"I think showing up is important, but there is action behind it," he said in an interview with the Washington Examiner after a roundtable with local ...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- The investment firm Ancora is pushing U.S. Steel shareholders to drop the Nippon Steel merger and oust CEO David Burritt, a move that would align with President Donald Trump's insistence that U.S. Steel stay in American hands.

It is unclear from its statement how big a stake in U.S. Steel the Cleveland-based finance company ...Read more

In the days leading up to President Donald Trump's visit to Appalachian North Carolina, Monica Glowinski said her biggest prayer for the people of Buncombe County, which was devastated by the wrath of Hurricane Helene, was that Trump would not let their plight be forgotten.

"I am optimistic that President Trump is focusing his energies here,"...Read more

Steven Rinella is taking his skills as a survivalist, thrill-seeker and master storyteller to the History Channel for a new eight-part series that will take viewers on an outdoor adventure steeped in history while trying to solve some of America's most enduring mysteries. The series begins on Jan. 28.

"In the life I've spent in the outdoors, ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania -- Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) took the threat of avian flu head-on at a town hall at the 109th annual Pennsylvania Farm Show, saying that as highly pathogenic avian influenza spreads to dairy in other states, his administration would remain proactive and aggressive in establishing a nation-leading surveillance-testing ...Read more

BRADDOCK, Pennsylvania -- The fate of the Edgar Thomson Works, a massive steel plant that has hugged the same spot along the Monongahela River since 1875, became even more uncertain Friday morning when President Joe Biden announced he would block the sale of United States Steel to Nippon Steel as one of his last acts as president.

Biden said ...Read more

It is just after 9 p.m. on election night in an oversized suite on the 24th floor of downtown Pittsburgh's Fairmont Hotel. All the couches and cushioned chairs have been placed along the wall and replaced by around a half dozen campaign staffers working at desks, or makeshift desks, watching data start to pour in from across Pennsylvania. In ...Read more