No. 2 Penn State wrestling will take on No. 1 Iowa Friday night in Iowa City.
Half of Iowa’s projected starting lineup is from Pennsylvania – including two wrestlers from Central PA.
Former Central Cambria wrestler Max Murin and Punxsutawney wrestler Kaleb Young look to help Iowa take down Penn State.
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A sold-out crowd decked out in evening wear – or their best band attire – filled the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg to celebrate local music and musicians at The Central Pennsylvania Music Awards.
“This is our first year, our first run at things,” said Brandon Valentine, founder and president of the Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame. “The event itself is kind of two-fold. The first is the Central Pennsylvania Music Awards, which is local artists that are performing now. Better said, it’s the best of 2019 from our area. Then the other phase of it would be the actual Hall of Fame, which would be to induct the best of all time from our area.”
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PRESS RELEASE: Selinsgrove, PA – January 28, 2020 – BrightFarms, the leading supplier of locally grown salads for supermarkets, opened its largest greenhouse today. The new 280,000 sq. ft. farm in Selinsgrove, Pa. will deliver over 2 million pounds of fresh, local produce year-round in Pennsylvania and the tri-state area.
Greeting the crowd of 100+ were Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding and Pennsylvania House of Representatives Member David Rowe. Joining the celebration from GIANT Food Stores were Vice President of Fresh Dave Lessard and Category Manager Matt Novosel.
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Before you settle into your couch Sunday afternoon to get ready for the Super Bowl, don’t forget there’s another huge event happening earlier.
Yes, Sunday is Groundhog Day — the day where Pennsylvania’s favorite rodent prognosticator emerges from his burrow to let us know if we’ll be facing six more weeks of winter.
While the western Pennsylvania town of Punxsutawney boasts the state’s most-famous groundhog, several Central Pennsylvania social clubs will mark the occasion with their own resident rodents.
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CLEARFIELD – The Central PA Outdoor & Sports Show will return to the Clearfield County Fairgrounds on March 20-22, 2020.
The three-day show has expanded this year to add new programs and attractions, and will occupy both the Expo I and Expo II buildings.
This year, the “Take’m Out Coyote Hunt is being organized to coincide with the show, and Whitetails Unlimited will occupy Expo I with numerous displays and a banquet to be held Saturday evening (March 21).
A slate of new presenters this year include Brad Lockwood of Outdoor Edge’s Love of the Hunt TV and local popular predator hunter, Jerry Lannen. Both Lockwood and Lannen will present seminars throughout the weekend.
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CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA– The FBI’s Philadelphia Division is offering a reward of $25,000 for the public’s help in identifying a suspect responsible for a string of armed bank robberies around the Harrisburg area.
The male suspect’s four robberies spanned a three-month period from October 2016 into January 2017.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — As we’ve reported, several Sweet Home Health Care workers say they went weeks without pay.
Now, women across Central Pennsylvania are using the power of social media to help them, and other women, in times of need.
One of those women, Maria Roche says the missed paychecks nearly left her and her children homeless.
“My landlord texted me saying you got 30 days. Either move out or pay the rent,” Roche said.
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YORK COUNTY, PA — Hundreds of students and teachers will rally in support of school choice at an event in York today.
School choice is a topic getting a lot of attention not only here in PA but, across the entire country.
Administrators here at Lincoln Charter School say supporting school choice is a way of providing more options for education to families and students.
This year their event coincides with National School Choice Week
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HARRISBURG — Gas prices in Harrisburg and its surrounding area dropped an average of 5.9 cents per gallon in the last week, according to the latest survey from GasBuddy.com.
The average price of gas in the area surrounding the state capitol is $2.67 per gallon, according to the website’s weekly survey of 241 stations. The average price for a gallon of gas has fallen an average of 8.6 cents per gallon in the last month, but are still 25.5 cents per gallon higher than they were a year ago, according to GasBuddy.
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Shockwaves of Kobe Bryant’s passing can also be felt here in the commonwealth, tonight.
CBS 21’s Karina Cheung spoke to sports fans at Mr. G’s Sports Bar in Harrisburg.
They said time and time again that Bryant is a Pennsylvania legacy, and always will be.
“My jaw dropped in shock,” said Ryan Wallace. “It was just tragic, but my first reaction was, I didn’t think about basketball, I thought about him as a man and as a father.”
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THE PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION HAS ISSUED A CODE ORANGE AIR QUALITY ALERT FRIDAY FOR THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY.
A CODE ORANGE AIR QUALITY ALERT MEANS THAT AIR POLLUTION CONCENTRATIONS WITHIN THE REGION MAY BECOME UNHEALTHY FOR SENSITIVE GROUPS. SENSITIVE GROUPS INCLUDE CHILDREN…PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM ASTHMA… HEART DISEASE OR OTHER LUNG DISEASES…AND THE ELDERLY. THE EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION CAN BE MINIMIZED BY AVOIDING STRENUOUS ACTIVITY OR EXERCISE OUTDOORS.
A midstate megachurch has teamed with a charity to help pay off $2.5 million in medical bill debt for 1,546 people in central Pennsylvania.
Those payoffs occurred when the Lancaster County-based LCBC church provided $25,000 raised during its Be Rich initiative to RIP Medical Debt.
RIP, a New York-based nonprofit, used that cash to buy and retire the unpaid debt for pennies on the dollar.
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During the month of December, West Shore Home was hard at work collecting hundreds of pounds of canned food items to donate to the Central Pennsylvania Community Food Bank. Recently, the home improvement company announced that they had donated 984 pounds of non-perishable food items to help feed hungry families in Central PA.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — A federal indictment unsealed Wednesday accuses a former central Pennsylvania detective who served on a drug task force of having traded official actions for sexual favors.
Federal prosecutors said a grand jury indicted former Carlisle police officer Christopher Collare, 52, of Blythewood, South Carolina, on charges of bribery, heroin distribution, fraud and lying to federal agents.
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According to homesnacks, Camp Hill has the 27th lowest unemployment rate and the 7th highest median income in Pennsylvania.
The median home values in Camp Hill are the 19th highest in the state and the crime rate is the 24th lowest in the state, “making Camp Hill a safe and great place to live.”
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A drunken driving conviction could mean losing the right to buy and own firearms in Pennsylvania, the U.S. Court of Appeals has decided.
handed down Friday hinges on the federal government’s definition of a “serious crime” — the level a crime must reach to trigger an individual being barred from buying firearms.
Under federal law, a serious crime is one that can carry a state-prison sentence of two or more years.
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“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth,” once said Muhammad Ali.
Following the advice of the great boxer, philanthropist, and social activist, the Mansfield University women’s track and field team paid a little ‘rent’ with Second Chance Animal Care Sanctuaries in Tioga earlier this month.
During their time volunteering, the Mountaineers spent time exercising the dogs, caring for and playing with the cats and kittens, and cleaning different areas of the facility.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Since 1994 millions of volunteers have participated as part of the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service. This year, volunteers in central Pennsylvania worked on dozens of projects, doing everything from knitting scarves to picking up litter.
While most government offices were closed today, the Harrisburg City Government Center was open for an MLK Day of Service project put on students in the after-school program of the Boys and Girls Club of Harrisburg. Students in sixth through 11th grade helped make and serve 100 hot meals to those in need.
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MOUNT CARBON, Pa. — A 44-acre central Pennsylvania community with fewer than 90 residents faces the possibility of being absorbed by an adjacent city because there isn’t enough citizen interest to keep its government functioning.
No one except the newly elected mayor of Mount Carbon showed up this month for a reorganizational meeting.
The Schuylkill County borough’s fate has hung in the balance since last year, when all three council members quit and the borough secretary resigned.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — The 11th annual Central Pennsylvania Martin Luther King Day of Service is taking place throughout the Midstate and will provide people of all ages with a way to learn and give back to the community.
The day of service will bring together more than 30 organizations and crowds of people all looking to help others.
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