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Pennsylvania College of Technology approves slight tuition increase wit 2025-26 budget
Pennsylvania College of Technology. PHOTO PROVIDED In-state residents attending Pennsylvania College of Technology will see a slight rise in tuition of about $15 per credit after the college’s board of directors approved the 2025-26 budget...

Will Artificial Intelligence be your next financial advisor? Why Floridians are adopting AI to manage money
More Americans are embracing artificial intelligence to manage their finances, with Florida residents showing particular enthusiasm according to a new report. A recent TD Bank survey reveals that most Americans are ready to use AI for financial...

Wheatley, Allar among players representing Lions at media days
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State head coach James Franklin, senior quarterback Drew Allar, redshirt senior offensive lineman Nick Dawkins and redshirt senior safety Zakee Wheatley are set to represent Penn State at Big Ten Football Media Days in...

WVIA News wins Public Media Journalists Association award for Recipes of the Region series
Some crossed the ocean, all were handed down the generations. Now, time-honored family recipes from around Northeast and Northcentral Pennsylvania are being recognized on a national stage. WVIA News has won a first-place Public Media Journalists...

Tuesday Sports – WNBA returning to Detroit in 2029
WNBA – WNBA expanding to Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia over next five years The WNBA is expanding to 18 teams over the next five years with Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia all set to join the league by 2030. Cleveland will begin play in...

Pennsylvania couple out almost $70K after home contractor doesn't finish the job
Dusty Costa lives each day with cerebral palsy and says it's hard to get around. So he dreamed of a bigger space with simple improvements. Now he says he's out almost $70,000, left with plumbing hooked up to nothing, sinks sitting on an old...

Willie Nelson's Outlaw Music Festival forced to cancel first Oklahoma show
The Outlaw Music Festival's Oklahoma debut has been cancelled due to extreme weather damage at a prior tour stop. Severe storms in Missouri damaged equipment, making it unsafe for the Oklahoma show to proceed. Refunds will be issued to...

Pennsylvania County to Test Medical Drone Deliveries Through 911 Dispatch
County to test system for medical drone deliveries through 911 dispatch By DRONELIFE Features Editor Jim Magill A coalition of public agencies and private companies is seeking to demonstrate the viability of using a 911 dispatch system to dispatch...

Pennsylvania on its way to lifting Sunday hunting ban
(The Center Square) - At long last, it looks like Pennsylvania’s prohibition of Sunday hunting will end. The passage of House Bill 1431 in concurrence with the Senate signals a new era of game in the commonwealth. Proponents of the prohibition...

The AI music problem on Spotify (and other streaming platforms) is worse than you think
MBW Reacts is a series of analytical commentaries from Music Business Worldwide written in response to major recent entertainment events or news stories. Only MBW+ subscribers have unlimited access to these articles. At first, everything appears...

Art & the Knock-On Effect
At the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania, a class in drawing with colored pencils. Photo by R Thomas Berner But what about the other 11 months? Everybody knows that July is a huge arts month in State College, primarily because of the Central...

Pennsylvania bill on increased Sunday hunting seeks Gov. Shapiro approval
Pennsylvania House Bill 1431, which lifts the ban on Sunday hunting, awaits Governor Shapiro's signature. If signed, the Game Commission will determine which Sundays allow hunting, potentially adding dates to the 2025 season. The bill strengthens...

Pennsylvania lawmakers push tax credits to lure film and TV production
Filmmaker Kyra Knox (left) is show during filming of ‘Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia.’ Sam Meneses Between 2024 and 2025, television and film production in Los Angeles dropped by 22% due to wildfires and production studios migrating east,...

Pennsylvania Gives Amazon Potentially Unlimited Sales Tax Exemption
Amazon, the tech and online retail juggernaut, is expanding its physical footprint, with a little help from Pennsylvania taxpayers. "Amazon plans to spend $20 billion to build two data centers in Pennsylvania, a move that state officials say will...

Michael Jones, innovative director of the Language and Media Centers at Swarthmore College, has died at 59
Michael Jones, 59, of Philadelphia, innovative director of the Language and Media Centers at Swarthmore College, student advocate, community leader in Powelton Village, mentor, and volunteer, died Friday, May 2, of kidney cancer at the Hospital of...

Apple TV+'s Upcoming Reacher Replacement Show Based On Best-Selling Crime Books Casts Iconic Horror Franchise Actor
Apple TV+'s untitled adaptation of Lars Kepler's Joona Linna novels continues to expand its cast, as horror star Rory Culkin joins Liev Schrieber in the streamer's upcoming answer to the Reacher series. Younger sibling to Macaulay Culkin and...

Bryan Kohberger to plead guilty to killing 4 University of Idaho students, multiple media report (World)
Photo: The Canadian Press FILE - A flyer seeking information about the killings of four University of Idaho students who were found dead is displayed on a table along with buttons and bracelets on Nov. 30, 2022, during a vigil in memory of the...

BREAKING: Bryan Kohberger to plead guilty to killing 4 University of Idaho students, multiple media report
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty, multiple media outlets reported Monday. The news was delivered to families...

Was 1971 the greatest year in music history?
(Credits: Far Out / Album Covers / Alamy / Press) March felt like deep midwinter in Media, Pennsylvania, to a group of young students who scurried silently beneath a pitch-black sky. The strange darkness that night was perfect for the youngsters...

Pennsylvania judge orders three witnesses to testify in Kohberger murder trial
BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — A Pennsylvania judge ruled that three witnesses must appear at the trial of Bryan Kohberger, the man accused in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in 2022. Defense attorneys requested testimony from a...