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Report: Pa. hospitals face increasingly precarious financial future
Financial instability could force closures at more than a dozen Pennsylvania hospitals in the coming five years if state policymakers fail to act and the industry’s economic climate continues to deteriorate, according to a new report commissioned by system advocates.
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Fatal Bucks County nursing home explosion a month later: ‘I feel totally forgotten’
A nursing home explosion claimed the lives of three people, and another 19 were injured. Residents and employees were displaced, ripped from the familiar and thrust into the unknown by an explosion that rocked the neighborhood between Bath Road and Veterans Highway, just feet from Lower Bucks Hospital.
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Pa. lawmakers and doctors push back against RFK Jr.’s vaccine policies
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. started the new year changing childhood vaccine schedules despite pushback from the medical community.
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Erie Maritime Museum up for USA Today’s 10 Best Readers’ Choice Award
The Erie Maritime Museum provides an experienced filled with maritime history and heritage of the commonwealth while showcasing Pennsylvania’s contributions to the Great Lakes industry.
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ICE pushback in a key Pa. congressional district after unpaid rent allegation
Controller Mark Pinsley said the agency hasn’t paid for space it rents in a Lehigh County government building.
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Say cheese: 6 Pennsylvania creameries you need to visit
As a leading producer of cheese, Pennsylvania boasts award-winning creameries throughout the state offering up uniquely delicious cheddars, Goudas, Gruyeres, Camemberts, and more.
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Second Harvest opens ‘unbelievable’ free grocery store in UPMC center
A new, roughly 400-square-foot marketplace that has been in the works for nearly two years, has opened, tucked into the UPMC Health Plan Neighborhood Center at 803 East Ave. Right now, it allows 30 families a week to shop in the space, stocked with fresh food, dry goods and household staples.
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‘Crippled Pickle’ grows from Newtown man’s devastating crash, recovery
After a devastating accident, Michael DeLong launched a line of pickles called “The Crippled Pickle,” sold exclusively at the Newtown Hardware House on S. State Street in Newtown.
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This York County blood donor has given 2 bathtubs of blood since ’84
Tom Brant donated his first pint of blood on July 18, 1984. And he kept donating, every eight weeks, for next 45 years. By November 2025, he had donated 200 pints of blood, enough, according to WellSpan Health’s public relations department, to fill two standard-sized bathtubs.
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Ex-Humane Society chief pleads guilty in theft case, gets house arrest
Nicole Leone’s theft of more than $32,000 from the Erie Humane Society left the nonprofit organization with an uncertain financial future and questions about whether it could be trusted with donors’ money.
