Invasive crayfish species have produced hybrids in midstate river, likely helpful to the invaders

Clouds parted over some areas of Pennsylvania late Sunday night into early Monday morning, rewarding some night-sky watchers with great views of the total lunar eclipse of the full moon that produced a reddish Blood Moon. The full moon slid into and through the shadow of the Earth from 9:32...

These hugs will leave you wanting moo-re. There’s a farm in Maryland that offers cow cuddles as a form of stress relief (or just for fun). Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 reports how Mary Land’s Farm in Clarksville offers a wide variety of events from private parties to stays at their inn.

I live on a 109-acre horse farm in York County, South Carolina. I do not own but a few of those acres, don’t get me wrong, but the surrounding property is quite large and owned by a friend of mine so I have access to the whole thing. Over the years I have lived there I have really grown fond of privacy.

Troy Staggs found himself in a 47-minute long battle with the huge fish, which measured 4.6 feet and weighed around 55 pounds.

Animal Outlook obtained shocking and horrific video footage filmed at a University showing experiments for cruel mass animal killing methods. Animal Outlook recently received public records, including research protocols, photographs, and approximately 10 hours of video footage that show the cruel experiments conducted by the North Carolina State University (NCSU) researchers in 2016. The research, of course, received funding from the U.S. Poultry and Egg Association to study the effects of ventilation shutdown or VSD on chickens.

When people talk about ways to slow climate change, they often mention trees, and for good reason. Forests take up a large amount of the planet-warming carbon dioxide that people put into the atmosphere when they burn fossil fuels. But will trees keep up that pace as global temperatures rise? With companies increasingly investing in forests as offsets, saying it cancels out their continuing greenhouse gas emissions, that’s a multibillion-dollar question.

* What it is: Valentine is a relatively new grape-type tomato that was developed by Penn State University’s Dr. Majid Foolad and Johnny’s Selected Seeds. It’s distinct for its firm, sweet, dark-red, elongated-grape tomatoes that keep well both on the vine and after harvest without cracking. It’s also early, producing ripe fruits as soon as 55 days after setting plants in the ground.

The National Weather Service has issued several weather statements this afternoon as a line of thunderstorms has been moving across central Pennsylvania. A severe thunderstorm warning was up for a while in parts of Franklin and Cumberland counties, and then several special weather statements were issued in the past hour for an area north of Harrisburg and also south toward York and the Maryland line.

There have been 81,417,100 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date – and that number continues to grow. In the Louisville/Jefferson County metropolitan area, which covers parts of Kentucky and Indiana, a total of 368,557 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 28,675 confirmed infections for every […]

There have been 81,417,100 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States to date – and that number continues to grow. In the Charleston metropolitan area, located in West Virginia, a total of 56,610 cases of COVID-19 have been reported. Adjusted for population, there have been 26,050 confirmed infections for every 100,000 people in the […]

The Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) recently gave out awards that recognize outstanding leadership in the legal profession and extraordinary service and longstanding membership in the association. PBA Special Achievement Awards recognize those lawyers and individuals who have provided time and resources to improve the association and the legal profession. The...

Pennsylvania’s primary election on Tuesday features plenty of uncontested races, but the ones worthy of attention are offering a good bit of political intrigue and excitement. At the top of the list are primary races for U.S. Senate and governor, except in the Democratic primary for governor where state...

Mars Wrigley Confectionery has recalled some Starburst, Life Savers and Skittles gummy candy because there may be “a very thin metal strand embedded in the gummies or loose in the bag.”. The company said, “We received reports from consumers alerting us to this matter and are not aware of...

SOMERSET, Pa. — A member of the " Quecreek 9″ has died. Dennis “Harpo” Hall of Benscreek, and eight other coal miners were trapped about 245 underground in the Quecreek Mine in Lincoln Township from July 24-28, 2002. All were successfully saved in the “Nine for Nine” rescue that drew international attention.

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A small black bear was the talk of a Bergen County town Sunday after it scampered up a utility pole outside a popular bakery and attracted the attention of passersby and police. The bear was spotted about 1:05 p.m. in the area of Franklin and Wyckoff avenues outside Palermo’s Café...

Samantha Fullam, of York County, is on the trail of her stolen Audi Q5 and some precious cargo, her dog, Wilder. Late in the afternoon on May 14, Fullam said she stopped for a quick errand at the Prince Street Cafe in York where she left her 5-year-old Border Collie and Australian Shepherd mix in the car. She told the York Daily Record she thought she saw a car leaving her parking spot, and when she left the cafe, she learned her suspicions were correct - the car was gone.