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TD Bank files to shut down 20 branches this month with others slated to close and customers must make financial changes
TD BANK confirmed plans to shut down 20 locations, according to filings with the government. This month’s filings included closures up and down the east coast. Banks like TD are required to report branch closing plans to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, or OCC. On April...
Jersey Shore native makes it to final four on ‘Next Level Chef’
Jersey Shore native Gabrielle Chappel is putting central Pennsylvania on the map as she soars to success on Gordan Ramsay's "Next Level Chef." Chappel, a recent culinary school graduate based in Brooklyn, New York, is somewhat new to cooking, but you wouldn't know it from her performance. Of the 8 initial contestants in the social media category, Chappel was picked second. Chappel was then drafted into Gordon Ramsay's team. ...
Where's Wally? Emotional support alligator stolen from Pennsylvania enclosure, owner says
PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Wally Gator was officially reported missing out of state Sunday after last being seen by his owner on April 21. What began as a trip to visit friends in Brunswick, Georgia became a nightmare for owner Joie Henney of Dauphin County. “I come out and I...
OSHA honors workers killed on the job in Pennsylvania
HARRISBURG, Pa. — April 18 is nationally recognized at Workers Memorial Day, a day that honors the men and women who have been killed while on the clock. This comes just a few weeks after three construction workers were killed in a devastating accident on Interstate 83. And while...
Chairman and past president of Pa. grocery store chain dies
Richard Earl “Dick” Redner, past president/CEO of Redner’s Markets, has died. Redner, chairman of the board and second-generation business owner, died on April 25 in Reading, according to the company. He was 73. “A humble leader, Richard was known for his nose to the grindstone work ethic...
Pennsylvania state bills middle-class man $34B in baffling income notice
A Pennsylvania man was in for the shock of a lifetime when he opened a bill from the state for $34 billion. “I knew it was an obvious blunder. I don’t even make over $100,000 a year, so there’s no way I could owe anywhere near that,” Barry Tangert told News 8 about the mind-boggling blunder. The Lancaster County resident said the mystifying letter was one of two items that arrived in the mail last weekend. NJ, NY, Connecticut residents pay highest taxes over lifetimes: study He opened the first to find a refund check from the federal government for over $900. Tangert’s high was...
Pennsylvania senator and local officials support student-led encampment
The pro-Palestinian encampment led by students from multiple Philadelphia universities was instructed to disband on Friday evening according to a message from the University of Pennsylvania’s Interim President J. Larry Jameson. Following the protest that began on Temple University’s campus, proceeded to City Hall, Drexel University and stopped on...
Rite Aid to close 16 more stores, including 4 in Pa.
Pharmaceutical chain Rite Aid plans to close 16 more stores, including four locations in Pennsylvania. The stores are located in Schuylkill, Philadelphia, Wayne and Lehigh counties. In a bankruptcy filing earlier this week, Rite Aid said it plans to close the following stores in Pennsylvania:. 500 N. Claude Lord Blvd.,...
Road closed in Lycoming County after house fire
JERSEY SHORE, Pa. — A road is closed in Lycoming County as crews battle a house fire on Friday afternoon. A video from a viewer shows the flames at a home along Cemetery Street in Jersey Shore. Cemetery Street in Jersey Shore Borough is closed for traffic between S....
Three Southern Tier Residents Killed in One-Vehicle Crash in Pennsylvania
Three people from the Southern Tier have lost their lives after a one-vehicle crash in Pennsylvania earlier this week. According to a release on the Athens Township Police Department Facebook page, the crash occurred around 2:40 a.m. on Tuesday, April 23rd on Riverside Drive north of the Sayre Bridge in Athens Township. The department says a 2013 Nissan Altima, being driven by 46-year-old Brett W. Relyea of Owego was traveling at a high rate of speed and lost control.
First electric school buses arrive in Pennsylvania
STEELTON, Pa. (WHTM) — Michelle Strohecker will be the first to admit she was a little skeptical when she learned she would be driving some of the first electric school buses in Pennsylvania. People don’t like change, after all. And Strohecker — the location manager in the Steelton-Highspire School...
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