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HYDE — The Clearfield Area High School Track and Field teams both earned sweeps at home for the second tri-meet in a row on Tuesday afternoon. The boys team upped their record to 6-1 with a close 79-67 win over Central and an easier 96-54 victory over Philipsburg-Osceola. The girls team climbed to 5-2 overall […]

Rapper Tupac Shakur had a way with words and you may be able to own some of them for $35,000. That’s the price for an alleged love letter from the rapper being offered for sale on the site Moments In Time. Billed as the “Earliest Known Letter of Tupac Shakur,” it is addressed to “Beethoven” […]

An Australian mother and a television crew charged with the alleged kidnapping of two children in Lebanon have been released from prison and are on their way to the airport to leave the country, the TV crew’s website is reporting. Sally Faulkner, who is from Brisbane, had been detained along with four staff members of […]

Saudi Arabia is pulling out all the stops to raise cash and fill the hole in its budget created by cheap oil. It’s a huge reversal of fortunes for the Saudis. For years, the kingdom relied on hauling in gobs of oil money to support generous perks to citizens and the kingdom’s massive military. But […]

President Barack Obama received a chilly reception from Saudi Arabia’s leaders as he landed in Riyadh Wednesday, a clear sign of the cooling relations between once-close allies amid regional upheaval and dropping oil prices. When Obama touched down in Riyadh shortly after 1 p.m. local time, there were no kisses with the kingdom’s ruler as […]

Forget the “exotic” duck embryos and fried pigs’ heads you often see representing the Philippines on TV. Filipino cuisine has new legs to stand on thanks to a few innovative and passionate Manila-based chefs. There’s Jordy Navarra, who’s doing reinterpretations of local dishes in his new restaurant, Toyo, serving salads inspired by a vegetable-centric Filipino […]

The man who supervised Flint’s water treatment plant has been charged, along with two state environmental officials, in connection with the Michigan city’s water crisis. Mike Glasgow, a former supervisor at the Flint treatment plant who now serves as the city’s utilities administrator, is charged with tampering with evidence and willful neglect of duty as […]

Serena Williams has won 21 grand slams, is the undisputed No.1 women’s tennis player on the planet and has dominated the sport for years — so is winning one of four main tournaments easier than it used to be? Only Steffi Graf has won more grand slams in the modern era than Williams with the […]

The map weaves from hardscrabble downstate Delaware to heavily Catholic Rhode Island to tony Fairfield County boating towns on the waterfront of Long Island Sound. Not exactly Cruz Country. Fresh off a bruising defeat at the hands of Donald Trump in New York, Ted Cruz is now retreating to what is, at best, only barely […]

The co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream aren’t stopping their protest against money in politics any time soon, despite getting arrested outside the U.S. Capitol over the weekend. Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were among approximately 300 people arrested as part of the group “Democracy Awakening,” which is closely aligned with another activist group, […]

Republican Party leaders will meet at a posh resort in Florida this week, and there’s one thing on everyone’s mind: Donald Trump, and the potential impact of the presidential front-runner on the future of the GOP. The internecine battles among Republican National Committee members — all 168 of whom will be delegates in Cleveland — […]

The map weaves from hardscrabble downstate Delaware to heavily Catholic Rhode Island to tony Fairfield County boating towns on the waterfront of Long Island Sound. Not exactly Cruz Country. Fresh off a bruising defeat at the hands of Donald Trump in New York, Ted Cruz is now retreating to what is, at best, only barely […]

Anthony Mattie walks down Main Street confronted by a shell of the town he once knew. The retired state patrolman-turned-mayor pro tem stares at vacant building after building, his reflection bouncing off the empty glass storefront windows. The streets are lined with century-old facades, but not much more, except for a few cars slowly passing […]

Decisive wins and deadly decisions. It’s Wednesday, and here are the 5 things you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. 1. Campaign 2016 This one was yuuuuge. The Donald and Hillz delivered dominating wins last night in New York’s primaries, squelching, at least for a night, talk of how […]

If there were any question about whether Bernie Sanders would soften his attacks on Hillary Clinton following his thumping loss in New York on Tuesday, the answer was a resounding “No.” Despite a 15-point defeat in New York and a slate of challenging primaries next week, Sanders is pressing on and responding to his supporters […]

Google is facing a huge fine and major disruption to the way it does business after European officials filed new antitrust charges against the company. The European Commission said Google was abusing its market position by imposing restrictions on Android device manufacturers and mobile network operators. Google’s Android is the world’s dominant mobile operating system. […]

WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD NEW WILMINGTON — Junior Jessica Shomo (Clearfield) placed high in two events, setting a career record in one, to help Clarion win the 26-team Westminster Invitational Saturday. She took second in the long jump with a leap of 5.32 meters (17 feet, five inches) and fifth in the 100-meter dash by […]

Japan’s Mitsubishi Motors is the latest to join the rogues’ gallery of automakers that have cheated on fuel tests. Shares in the company tumbled 15% Wednesday after news emerged that it had illegally rigged fuel economy tests affecting hundreds of thousands of vehicles. The company said the cheating it had discovered made the cars’ fuel […]

The death toll from an explosion in the Afghan capital rose to 64 people Wednesday, authorities said, a day after militants targeted civilians in Kabul. The blast rocked Kabul on Tuesday morning — the apparent work of Taliban militants targeting a security team that protects government VIPs, a police official said. In addition to the […]

CLEARFIELD – Several residents attended last night’s Clearfield Municipal Authority meeting with concerns about the rate increase for sewer bills. Board members attempted to answer those concerns and explain how billing worked and why the authority had raised the base rate to $84 per quarter. Dennis Parada spoke first and said that the cost was […]

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton came home to New York and both won big. Trump used his dominating victory as an opportunity to make his case that the only way he’ll be denied the Republican nomination is if the game is rigged. Clinton reveled in her win, which broke Bernie Sanders’ string of successes in […]

Why do we wear underwear? Whether for health, hygiene, sensory or fashionable purposes, the evolution of our undergarments is one that directly links with cultural changes in society. Despite this our bras, underpants and boxer shorts are still regarded as “unmentionables,” rarely discussed. Perhaps because even the most practical of pieces can’t help but be […]

Donald Trump trounced his Republican competitors in New York’s primary on Tuesday night as all major polls, pundits and common sense said he would. As a hometown product with almost universal name recognition in New York City — the state’s real political center of gravity (it helps to have buildings emblazoned with “Trump” across town) […]

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette and the Flint water investigation team are expected to announce the first criminal charges Wednesday in the tainted water case, according to a source briefed on the investigation. Schuette and other officials had said that they will make a “significant announcement” regarding their investigation into the Flint water crisis. A […]

With his win in the New York primary, Donald Trump gains the bounce he needs after a rough two weeks filled with disappointing delegate counts and negative media coverage. While it’s not a surprise that Trump does well in his home state, a victory is surely welcome in his headquarters. Yet even with a big […]