NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. suicide rate dropped slightly last year from some of the highest levels ever reported, preliminary data suggests. Experts say it’s hard to know exactly why, or whether the decline will continue. A little over 48,800 suicide deaths were reported in 2024, according ...
We have a wonderful day planned for Sunday, Dec. 14 from 12-5 p.m.! The Heisey House is decorated for the holidays and the ever-popular self-guided Holiday House tour of 10 properties is planned. Dogwood Circle Garden Club is again providing fresh and artificial arrangements as door prizes, so ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The last supermoon of the year shined in the December sky. The moon’s orbit around the Earth isn’t a perfect circle so it gets nearer and farther as it swings around. When a full moon is closer to Earth in its orbit, a so-called supermoon happens. It makes the moon look ...
A few years ago, Kurt Neesley of Redondo Beach, California, was brainstorming where to put his family’s Elf on the Shelf for his three kids to find the next morning. He decided to make it look like the doll, named Elfie, had painted on their kitchen wall. Neesley used Tootsie Rolls to ...
BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — For the past several years, 75-year-old Miguel Laboy has smoked a joint with his coffee every morning. He tells himself he won’t start tomorrow the same way, but he usually does. “You know what bothers me? To have cannabis on my mind the first thing in the ...
STATE COLLEGE — About 1.7 million Pennsylvanians — including nearly half a million children — face food insecurity. That’s one in eight residents and one in six children across the commonwealth who lack consistent access to enough nutritious food for an active, healthy life. The effects of hunger can be far-reaching. Hunger increases risks for chronic diseases, hospitalization and higher health care costs. Penn State Extension’s Master Gardener Seed to Supper program is working to change that, one garden at a time. As Penn State celebrates its 11th GivingTuesday on Dec. 2, ...
