My parents are both retired medical professionals who are in their early 70s. My father has diabetes that he manages with medication, and he also has a history of recurrent prostate cancer. My mother ...
State and federal agriculture officials are working to prevent the spread of highly contagious bird flu from a Lehigh County poultry farm where the virus has been found in a commercial chicken flock ...
When Shyam Thakkar was dismissed from Allegheny Health Network in 2020, he wasn’t able to get another job in Western Pennsylvania because of the noncompete agreement he’d signed years earlier. Thakkar ...
There’s a new festival in town. This past weekend saw the first-ever PA Chestnut Festival, held in Castanea to a stupendous turnout well in the hundreds, despite the freezing temperatures. The ...
I’ve learned something surprising over the years as a step-parent: Holidays don’t have to be confined to specific dates. In our family, Christmas Eve is just as special as Christmas Day, and we’ve ...
Hindsight, as the old saying goes, is always 20/20. That thought came to mind after a couple of the roughly 1,500 Jan. 6 offenders given pardons by President Trump said they didn’t want it. Finally, I ...