Новости за 26.05.2016

What’s the best way to set up our current/future children so that they don’t incur the same amount of debt and college expenses as us Millennials currently have? With rising education expenses and tuition increases, would it be smart to start saving before even having children? –Mathew Simonsen, 30, Minneapolis Nearly 70% of college grads […]

What’s the best way to set up our current/future children so that they don’t incur the same amount of debt and college expenses as us Millennials currently have? With rising education expenses and tuition increases, would it be smart to start saving before even having children? –Mathew Simonsen, 30, Minneapolis Nearly 70% of college grads […]

In an embarrassing blow for the Speaker Paul Ryan, the House failed to pass its annual spending bill funding water and energy programs. The bill failed because of a bipartisan amendment to protect federal workers from being fired on the basis of sexual discrimination or gender identity was attached to the bill. The controversial social […]

Google is moving along quickly with its plans to kill off the traditional password. Dan Kaufman, the director of Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects team, recently announced that the company was working with “several very large financial institutions” to test out new password-replacement technology. The technology, called “Trust API,” uses multiple sensors in your smartphone […]

The newest MVP of the Pittsburgh Steelers is … a robot. The Mobile Virtual Player prevents football players from having to tackle each other during practice — and thus reduces injuries. The Steelers have been using the MVP for about a week now during workouts. The MVP is designed for use in drills and is […]

The head of the nation’s airport security said Thursday that airports can decide whether they want to privatize their security staff — amid exasperatingly long waits and continued security gaps — but the results are likely to be the same as using government workers. Transportation Security Administration chief Peter Neffenger said it would take more […]

Donald Trump and Paul Ryan had a “good conversation” by phone Wednesday night, but the House speaker didn’t offer an endorsement for his party’s presumptive nominee. Sources familiar with the call, who spoke on condition of anonymity because it was a private, called it a “good conversation” but offered few details other than saying Ryan […]

Whether Britain should stay in or out of the European Union is quickly becoming part of a racially charged debate if the campaign posters for the June 23 referendum are anything to go by. The latest to cause a stir depicts a skinhead and a South Asian woman in a traditional sari on a seesaw. […]

State police at Clearfield State police received a report about an incident of access device fraud Wednesday on White Street in Irvona Borough. During the incident, someone allegedly transferred money to a bank account in Slovenia. It was transferred from a card with child support payments on it. State police are continuing their investigation at […]

A woman in India has given birth to a 15-pound baby girl, which doctors believe is the country’s heaviest newborn. The 6.8-kilogram baby is the weight of an average four-month old, and was born by cesarean section Monday to a 19-year-old woman. “I have been working for 10 years in this hospital, and (until now) […]

The message arrived in my in box several weeks ago. It asked if I wanted to go on an “interesting trip” overseas. Um, yeah. I didn’t have a phone number for the sender, so it took a day to find him and say, “Sign me up.” This past week it all came to pass. I […]

CLEARFIELD – An Irvona man accused of having child pornography was sentenced to state prison during plea and sentencing court in Clearfield County. Aaron Michael Keith, 30, an inmate of the jail, pleaded guilty to 11 felony counts of sexual abuse of children and a felony count of criminal use of communication facility before Judge […]

CLEARFIELD – The Clearfield County Area Agency on Aging Inc. wants to address the needs of the aging population and is currently conducting a Senior Housing Needs Assessment survey, announced Julie Fenton of the CCAAA at Tuesday’s commissioners’ meeting. The survey is a part of the agency’s practice of seeking input on how to improve […]

CLEARFIELD – A Curwensville wrestling standout accused in a school assault waived all charges to court Wednesday at his preliminary hearing at the Clearfield County Jail. Shae John Bloom, 18, of Curwensville has been charged with four counts of disorderly conduct and two counts of harassment. His bail was modified from $10,000 unsecured to $25,000 […]

CLEARFIELD – The Alex Vezza/Clearfield Elks BPOE 540 Memorial Trout Stocking will be held this Saturday, at the Raftsman Memorial Dam, beginning at 10 a.m. Funds were recently raised online through gofundme.com by friends of Alex Vezza where the monetary goal was not only reached, but also well exceeded. With the abundance of funds, an anniversary date […]

HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Wolf has put Pennsylvania’s milk producers and haulers in a much stronger competitive position relative to other states, as he signed Senate Bill 1108 into law, enacting reforms long-sought-after by the state’s dairy industry. The bill, now known as Act 34, enables the state Department of Transportation (PennDOT) to issue milk-hauling […]

Edward J. Coval, 84, of Hawk Run died Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at Windy Hill Village, P.S.L., Philipsburg. Born July 15, 1931, he was a son of the late John H. and Anna M. (Yuhas) Coval. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two sisters, Mildred and Josephine Coval and an […]

Joan “Joann” Louise (Little) Ford of Royal Palm Beach, Fla., and formerly of Grassflat, was born March 26, 1931. She was one of 13 siblings and the second oldest child born to the late Cyril and Catherine (Rothrock) Little. She passed from this world at West Palm Beach, Fla., to a new life on Oct. 24, […]

Want to launch a nuclear missile? You’ll need a floppy disk. That’s according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which found that the Pentagon was still using 1970s-era computing systems that require “eight-inch floppy disks.” Such disks were already becoming obsolete by the end of that decade, being edged out […]

The new Afghan Taliban leader has told commanders and the group’s supreme leadership council that there will be no peace talks with the Afghan government, a source in the group reached through an intermediary said Wednesday. The source said that Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada, newly appointed to lead the terror group after a U.S. drone strike […]

The call was simple, but it changed what an already dark business meant for one smuggler. Abu Walid knew his caller to be a devout man, a member of ISIS. And his request was chilling. Could he ship 25 of his people from Libya to Europe on a small boat for $40,000? Abu Walid — […]

[Breaking news update, posted at 12:05 a.m. ET] One person has been killed in a shooting at a concert venue where rapper T.I. was scheduled to perform Wednesday night, according to law enforcement officials. The incident occurred backstage in the V.I.P area of the Irving Plaza music venue in New York City, the officials said. […]

The attorney representing Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe confirmed Wednesday that the governor is the subject of a federal investigation. James W. Cooper told CNN that federal officials informed him they are looking into McAuliffe’s private business ties before he ran for governor. They are specifically exploring whether he violated the Foreign Agent Registration Act, which […]

Top Republicans are becoming nervous that they may lose Marco Rubio’s Senate seat and their tenuous majority in the chamber — and now many want the Florida senator to reconsider his decision to leave office. Behind the scenes, a number of senators, donors and leading party officials have privately prodded Rubio to make a late […]

China’s leaders continue to worry about the country’s economy. The rest of the world should too. On Wednesday, China’s central bank weakened its currency. It set the reference rate for the yuan at the lowest level in five years. The actual cut was small: only about 0.3%. It didn’t send world markets into a downward […]