New PSU trustees have alumni support
<p>STATE COLLEGE — Penn State’s three new alumni trustees will likely need more allies on the board to get the school’s governing body to re-visit former FBI director Louis Freeh’s scathing r
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Critics decry state’s revived food-stamp test
<p> HARRISBURG (AP) — After having been unemployed for several months, Heather Spearline decided it was finally time to ask for help.
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Heart disease: It’s not just for adults anymore
<p>Many of us know someone who has suffered from heart disease. It may be in the form of high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or even worse, a heart attack or stroke.
Poll: Aging U.S. in denial about long-term care
Majority of 40+ set isn’t even planning for possibility
<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — We’re in denial: Americans underestimate their chances of needing long-term care as they get older — and are taking few steps to get ready.
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‘We feel like she’s reborn’
Toddler is youngest patient ever to get lab-made windpipe
<p>CHICAGO — A 2-year-old girl born without a windpipe now has a new one grown from her own stem cells, the youngest patient in the world to benefit from the experimental treatment.
Floating poop poses a diagnostic puzzle
<p><strong>Q.</strong> As far back as I can remember, my stool has floated.
CPAP use does not worsen sleep ills
<p><strong>DEAR DR. ROACH</strong> : My husband said I snore, so I went to a sleep lab and was diagnosed with borderline sleep apnea.
East about to be overrun by about 30 billion cicadas
Insects looking to breed after 17 years
<p>WASHINGTON (AP) —Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast.
Chief says group making calls doesn’t represent local police
<p>LIME RIDGE — A telephone fundraising outfit that claims to represent local police departments doesn’t, a chief of police says.
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Meeting’s focus is drinking water
<p>SCOTT TWP. — The Columbia and Montour County Conservation Districts will be hosting a Columbia-Montour Source Water Environmental Education Team (SWEET) meeting on Monday, May 13.