LOCK HAVEN — Uptown Funko is turning a longtime passion into a full storefront experience for collectors across Clinton County and beyond. Christopher Smith and his wife, Cecilia Vavreck, launched Uptown Funko in March of 2025, originally operating online and at select trade shows while ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sluggish December hiring concluded a year of weak employment gains that have frustrated job seekers even though layoffs and unemployment have remained low. Employers added just 50,000 jobs last month, nearly unchanged from a downwardly revised figure of 56,000 in November, the Labor Department said Friday. The unemployment rate slipped to 4.4%, its first decline since June, from 4.5% in November, a figure also revised lower. The data suggests that businesses are reluctant to add workers even as economic growth has picked up. Many companies hired aggressively after ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said on social media Thursday that he is directing the federal government to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds, a move he said would help reduce mortgage rates at a time when Americans are worried about home prices. Trump and the White House have been trying to show they are responding to voter concerns about affordability ahead of midterm elections in November. Home prices have generally risen faster than incomes because of a persistent construction shortfall, making it harder for renters to buy their first home and for existing owners to ...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The advice that legendary investor Warren Buffett offered on investing and life over the years helped earn him legions of followers who eagerly read his annual letters and filled an arena in Omaha every year to listen to him at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual ...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Farmers are now learning how much aid they can expect to receive from a $12 billion package that President Donald Trump announced earlier this month. The U.S. Department of Agriculture released the figures Wednesday for how much aid per acre farmers can plan on for each row crop. The details arrived after most farmers have already met with their bankers to arrange financing for next year’s crops and placed orders for the seed and fertilizer they will need. But officials have promised that the payments should arrive by the end of February. Soybean farmers have ...
LOCK HAVEN — On Sunday night, Dec. 21, 2025, the building at 136 East Water Street in Lock Haven, occupied by the law offices of Coploff, Ryan & Houser and two residential apartments, was badly damaged by a fire. Within just four hours, heroic efforts to put out the two-alarm fire were ...
