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CLYMER – Clymer Central School recently announced its “Pirate Pride” Students for the Fourth Quarter. During each marking ...

Genesis chapter three promises us all something that we each get to experience in various ways; pain. After Adam and Eve disobeyed God, the promise that God made to them ...

I first laid eyes on Rick Wilson, a newbie from Edinboro, Pennsylvania, in junior high shop class, circa 1966. If it was a ...

It’s been 81 years since World War II, many living war survivors who were toddlers at the time are now in their 80’s, which ...

The Very Rev. Fr. Milad Selim asks, "What are we willing to suffer for Christ? What price are we willing to pay for His endless love?" ...

A sundown town refers to a community in the United States that historically excluded nonwhite people — especially Black ...

The Orange Institution has released the three resolutions which are to be delivered at today’s Twelfth celebrations – and ...

By Michael Tuggle “Your son has 12 hours to live.” That’s what doctors told Chris Lafferty when he brought his six-month-old ...

El Chapo's son, Ovidio Guzman Lopez, pleaded guilty to running the Sinaloa Cartel and coordinating massive shipments of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine to the United States.

A northern Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague. Health officials say it's the first recorded death in the area from pneumonic plague since 2007. Plague is rare in humans ...