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A Final Call to Duty: Local nurses honor their own with special services

BALLS MILLS — The Clinton Lycoming Nurses Honor Guard continues to grow in membership, services and community outreach as they honor the lives and careers of nurses throughout Clinton and Lycoming counties. Formed in January 2024, the volunteer organization began after the family of a ...

LOCK HAVEN — The Station Gallery, 2 E. Bald Eagle St., Lock Haven, will host a special one-day-only exhibit, Game Changers, this Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. Brought to you by The Clinton County Arts Council, with special thanks to the Clinton & Centre County Baseball Hall of Fame along with ...

Local medical marijuana company praises DOJ’s change in classification

SOUTH AVIS — Local medical marijuana manufacturer and retailer Terrapin is lauding the Trump Administration’s move to reclassify the product as a less-dangerous drug. On Thursday, United States Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a Schedule III drug. Prior to this, it was recognized as a Schedule I drug, which is reserved for drugs without medical use and with high potential abuse. The Associated Press reported the Trump administration indicated it would be jump-starting the process to reclassify marijuana more ...

Trump reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug in a historic shift

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general on Thursday signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug, a major policy shift long sought by advocates who said cannabis should never have been treated like heroin by the federal government. The order signed by Todd Blanche does not legalize marijuana for medical or recreational use under federal law. But it does change the way it’s regulated, shifting licensed medical marijuana from Schedule I — reserved for drugs without medical use and with high potential for abuse ...

School buses should all have alcohol tests to avoid drunken driving: NTSB

After a school bus rolled on a West Virginia highway two years ago, forcing one boy to have his leg amputated and seriously injuring two other children aboard, police quickly discovered the driver was drunk. But the National Transportation Safety Board then discovered something even more troubling: School bus drivers driving impaired was not an isolated problem. That’s why the NTSB on Thursday recommended for the first time that all new school buses be equipped with alcohol detection systems that can disable the bus if they detect the driver might be impaired. “There’s a ...