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CLEARFIELD – Two police officers were injured after an Oil City man allegedly fled the scene of a traffic stop during the early-morning hours Wednesday in Clearfield Borough. Terry Lee Boal, 37, has been charged by Officer Shawn Fye with aggravated assault, F2; fleeing or attempting to elude an officer, F3; recklessly endangering another person, […]

President Trump really likes Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. “I think she’s terrific. We had a great talk,” Trump told Fox Business in an interview aired on Wednesday. Trump met with Yellen last week, and he’s still considering whom to nominate as the next leader of the Fed. He said Monday that he was “very, […]

Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza had an interest in children that could be characterized as pedophilia, but nothing suggests he acted on it, according to an FBI behavioral analysis. A summary of the analysis was among the roughly 1,500 heavily redacted investigative documents released this week by the FBI, which painted a disturbing portrait of […]

President Donald Trump wasn’t scheduled to talk to the press on Wednesday. He spent the morning at the White House and was set to jet off to a fundraiser in Dallas this evening. Except that as he walked to Marine One, which was idling on the White House lawn, Trump stopped to take a few […]

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley issued a stern warning to South Sudan’s president on Wednesday, telling him “the hate and the violence that we are seeing has to stop,” or the United States will reconsider its financial support for the country. “I let him know the US is at a crossroads,” Haley […]

President Donald Trump, a day after public and nasty fissures opened within the Republican Party, told reporters his visit to Capitol Hill had been nothing but a “lovefest.” “We have great unity,” Trump said, touting the “standing ovations” the Republicans senators gave him during his Tuesday visit. Trump, standing on the White House South Lawn […]

Members of the House energy and commerce committee threatened to subpoena the Drug Enforcement Administration over documents related to opioid “pill dumping” in West Virginia. The threat comes after several, months-long requests for data on the companies supplying millions of oxycodone and hydrocodone pills to towns in West Virginia, a state heavily affected by the […]

After nearly 75 years, Filipino veterans of World War II were finally recognized for their military service and sacrifice on Wednesday as they were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal during a ceremony on Capitol Hill. US congressional leaders presented the medal — which is the highest civilian award — in honor of the more than […]

A majority of Republicans are now in favor of marijuana legalization, a new Gallup poll released Wednesday finds. The poll found that 51% of Republicans support marijuana legalization, a figure up nine points from a Gallup poll conducted last year. The increase in legalization support comes as Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a Republican who has […]

Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s young crown prince, has made headlines across the world after promising the kingdom will return to a “moderate” form of Islam. He also guaranteed a brighter future for his people, as he promoted modernization plans to wean the country off oil, attract foreign investment and diversify the economy. Bin Salman’s […]

DUBOIS – A local bank wants to attract more people to DuBois City to help local businesses during the upcoming holiday shopping season. CNB Bank requested for officials to have parking meters covered from the evening of Nov. 22 through the morning of Nov. 26. This would offer free parking over Thanksgiving, Black Friday and […]

President Donald Trump defended Wednesday his conversation with the a fallen soldier’s widow who said Trump didn’t remember her husband’s name. Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson who was killed in Niger, said in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America” Monday that the President stumbled on her husband’s name and suggested […]

Former president George H.W. Bush has responded after an actress alleged that he touched her inappropriately while he was sitting in his wheelchair during a photo op that took place a few years ago. In a now deleted Instagram post published on her verified account Tuesday, actress Heather Lind wrote that she was “disturbed today […]

When Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake announced on the Senate floor Tuesday he wouldn’t seek re-election, Sens. John McCain and Bob Corker — two Republican senators who had already defied the President — were there on the floor, sitting side by side across the aisle from Flake. “I would be better able to represent the people […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden is clearly leaving the door open to running for president in 2020, saying in an interview published Wednesday he hasn’t ruled it out. “I haven’t decided to run,” he told Vanity Fair. “But I’ve decided I’m not going to decide not to run. We’ll see what happens.” He said that […]

The bipartisan Senate Obamacare stabilization bill would reduce the deficit by $3.8 billion over the next decade and would not substantially change the number of people with health insurance, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. The bill, authored by Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, would fund […]

The battle in Niger in which four members of a US Army Special Forces team were killed by an ISIS-affiliated group has garnered a great deal of public attention, partly because of the spat between President Trump and the family of one of the dead soldiers, Sgt. La David Johnson, but the incident also underlines […]

More than 3,500 business leaders and government officials have flocked to Saudi Arabia for a conference dubbed “Davos in the Desert.” Attendees were hungry for insights on where the major oil producer is headed. They were not disappointed. Here are four of the biggest takeaways from the summit in Riyadh: The crown prince Crown Prince […]

Three employees say Tesla’s auto manufacturing facility was so hostile to black workers that it was “straight from the Jim Crow era.” An assembly line worker says others mocked his pants as “gay tight.” An engineer says she was taunted and catcalled on the factory floor, and was fired from the company after she sued […]

Antoine “Fats” Domino, a titan of early rock ‘n’ roll whose piano-based hits — such as “Ain’t That a Shame,” “Blueberry Hill” and “Blue Monday” — influenced artists including Paul McCartney and Randy Newman, died Tuesday, an official said. Domino passed away due to natural causes, according to Mark Bone, chief investigator with the Jefferson […]

More than a month since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the death toll from the storm has risen to 51, according to Puerto Rico’s Department of Public Safety The latest two victims died from leptospirosis, an infection that can spread after floods through contaminated water, Public Safety press officer Karixia Ortiz told CNN. The cause […]

Coca-Cola’s push to focus less on high-calorie drinks seems to be paying off. The beverage giant reported earnings and sales that topped forecasts on Wednesday and it was led by growth from its new Coca Cola Zero Sugar product as well as coffee and tea drinks, particularly in the United States. The company’s overall revenues […]

You better lose yourself the moment you try to copy an Eminem song. According to a press release from the High Court of New Zealand, the New Zealand National Party must pay the New Zealand dollars equivalent of almost $413,000 for copyright infringement after it copied the rapper’s hit “Lose Yourself” for an ad. “Eminem […]

The Kardashian-Jenner family is staying in the world of reality TV, at least for the next three years. CNNMoney has confirmed that the famous family renewed its contract with the E! network through 2020. “We recently celebrated the milestone 10th anniversary of ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ on E!. We have aired 13 wildly successful […]

The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed a new round of sanctions, this time on nine individuals and entities that support terrorism and violence in Yemen. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced the measures during a speech in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as part of a six-day trip to the Middle East aimed at bolstering cooperation on curbing […]