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New Report: Electronic health records still need work
WASHINGTON — America may be a technology-driven nation, but the health care system's conversion from paper to computerized records needs lots of work to get the bugs out, according to experts who spent months studying the issue.
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Oops: Cambria County burglary suspect forgot his keys at crime scene
JOHNSTOWN — Everyone forgets their keys, now and then, but police say one western Pennsylvania man managed to do so at a most inopportune time: while he was burglarizing a hair salon.
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Tired and broke, Rick Santorum is coming home to Pennsylvania
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. — Rick Santorum is tired, almost broke — and going home. The former Pennsylvania senator is taking a pause from Florida campaigning just days before the Tuesday primary that even he expects to deal him a third consecutive loss.
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PMEA District 8 Chorus
Area high school students who qualified for the Pennsylvania Educators Association District 8 Chorus rehearse for their performance at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Milton Area Senior High School.
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Prosecutor: Injuries to boy 'heartbreaking'
SUNBURY -- Northumberland County Assistant District Attorney Ann Targonski described the injuries that a 2-year-old suffered as "serious and heartbreaking" when Jason Philhower appeared in court on assault charges after the child was taken from his Sunbury home to a local hospital, where doctors found the boy had a broken leg and bruises all over his body.
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Kids learn about cowboys, not Liberty Bell
SUNBURY -- Five months after Shikellamy students began using the $100,000 textbooks purchased in April, a school director wants to know why the pupils are learning about Texas as if it is their home state. Board member Wendy Wiest on Thursday night demanded that district Superintendent Robin Musto investigate why kindergarteners through sixth-graders are using Macmillan-McGraw-Hill textbooks designed for use in Texas.
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New Report: Electronic health records still need work
- Sports
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Warrior Run's Matt McAndrew wrestles Lewisburg's Andrew Fox during the 152-pound match Thursday night during their HAC II meet in Lewisburg. McAndrews won 4-0 to help his team finish the night with the win.
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High school wrestling: Defenders get milestone win over outmanned Dragons
LEWISBURG -- One of the teams in Thursday night's Heartland Athletic Conference Division II showdown was going to celebrate a milestone before leaving the Donald H. Eichhorn Middle School gymnasium. Lewisburg coach Jim Snyder was seeking his 200th career victory and Warrior Run coach Wayne Smythe was looking to guide the Defenders to the school's 600th wrestling win.
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Buccaneers hire Bucknell grad Schiano as new coach
TAMPA, Fla. -- The Buccaneers are counting on Greg Schiano to lead them back to respectability and transform Tampa Bay into consistent winners -- much in the same way he made Rutgers matter again. The 45-year-old former Scarlet Knights coach -- a 1988 graduate of Bucknell -- was hired Thursday, more than three weeks after the Bucs fired Raheem Morris following a 4-12 finish.
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Todd Stanford On high school boys basketball: Let's go halvsies
Much like Grover Cleveland, the original Coke formula, and "Beavis and Butt-head," it's time the halves system made a comeback. You remember the halves system, right? The now-defunct Central Susquehanna Conference used to use it, as did the Tri-Valley League. Basically, every team plays every other team in the league once, and a first-half champion is declared. If there's a tie, the league holds a first-half championship game at a neutral site.
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Girls basketball: Red Tornadoes overcome challenge
MOUNT CARMEL -- Ali Varano left her feet to lunge at a pass from the corner of the court, so there was nowhere for her to turn when it whistled in at eye-level. The resulting impact echoed throughout the Mount Carmel gym and was certainly strong enough to leave welts on her arms. That seemed a small price to pay for tearing down Nativity BVM's confidence.
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High school wrestling: Defenders get milestone win over outmanned Dragons
- Entertainment
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Ian Crigun as the Cat in the Hat, left, and David Witmer as JoJo rehearse for Warrior Run Middle School's performance of "Seussical Jr."
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Warrior Run middle school students present 'Seussical Jr.'
TURBOTVILLE — Seventy sixth- through eighth-graders will take the stage to perform “Seussical Jr.” on Friday and Saturday in the Warrior Run Middle School auditorium. The production is presented by the Warrior Run Middle School Choral Department through a special arrangement with Music Theatre International.
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Dance company performs ‘Body Against Body’ Feb. 11 at Bucknell University
LEWISBURG — The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company will present “Body Against Body” at 8 p.m. Feb. 11 in the Weis Center for the Performing Arts at Bucknell University. “Body Against Body” is an evening of dance that revives and reconsiders the duets and solos that launched Bill T. Jones and the late Arnie Zane (1948-88) onto the early 1980s downtown performance scene and redefined the duet form.
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Okla. hospital must pay $1M to Garth Brooks
CLAREMORE, Okla. — An Oklahoma hospital that failed to build a women's health center in honor of Garth Brooks' late mother must pay the country singer $1 million, a jury has ruled. Jurors on Tuesday evening ruled that the hospital must return Brooks' $500,000 donation plus pay him $500,000 in punitive damages.
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Warrior Run middle school students present 'Seussical Jr.'
