Tamaqua Mayor, 4-year term: Jael E. Houser and David S. Clemson are on the Republican ticket. Council, 4-year term, three seats available: Sharon Stokes and Jillian L. Nerhartz are on the Democratic ...

Edna Bonhomme, author of "A History of the World in Six Plagues," details how pandemics are about more than viruses ...

The first major hurdle to get a referendum on the November ballot to repeal Ohio’s massive higher education law has been ...

The world was spinning on a different axis. Kerry Stokes was attuned to a different geopolitical beat. The media mogul had picked up a large stake in American film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ...

New York state legislators got one step closer to legalizing assisted suicide for terminally ill people on Tuesday.

It’s a tradition from our ancestors,” said Joseph, a youth leader from Tha Yu village in Myanmar’s eastern Shan state. “It’s the only way we survive,” added Joseph, who goes by only one name. Every ...

Chase Stokes and Michael Polansky. While country star Kelsea, 31, and pop queen Gaga, 39, may seem like an unlikely duo at first, the two iconic musicians have a deep appreciation for one another ...

Every year between January and April, South-East Asia is plagued by smog from farmers lighting fires to clear land, emitting microscopic PM 2.5 pollution that lines the lungs and enters the ...

Varicose veins are large, raised, swollen blood vessels that twist and turn. They usually develop in the legs and can be seen through the skin. They result from a weakening in the blood vessel ...