Every year, the last week of October is the national celebration of "Pro Bono" — no cost legal service — for communities with limited access to knowledge and/or resources. Local organizations and attorneys are staunch supporters of the effort, often from behind the scenes.  Read more

(The Center Square) – House Republicans held a public meeting Tuesday to invite banking leaders to share their feedback on President Joe Biden’s proposed IRS monitoring program. Read more

(The Center Square) – An education research team is warning about the effects of proposed federal legislation targeting charter schools, which would directly impact New Orleans’ unique school district. Read more

Allentown -- Two nationally-recognized institutions - The Association of Edison Illuminating Companies (AEIC) and Public Utilities Fortnightly - have awarded PPL Electric Utilities with a pair of awards for use of innovative technologies to reduce outages. Read more

The defense in the Kyle Rittenhouse case hopes to bring in testimony about their client’s interactions with police in the hours before he is alleged to have shot three people, saying those encounters shed light on whether Rittenhouse’s actions were reckless. Read more

(The Center Square) – New polling shows that both President Joe Biden and the 117th Congress have hit new lows in approval this year. Read more

NEWPORT—The American Cancer Society estimates that one in eight women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. For some, the diagnosis alone can feel paralyzing. For 53-year-old Christy Adams, who overcame stage 3 breast cancer in January, her constitution prevailed. Now she answers a calling from within to help new patients facing for themselves what she went through last year. Read more

Harrisburg, Pa. — A Fayette County priest has pleaded no contest to repeatedly assaulting an 11-year-old altar boy starting in 2004 and continuing until the boy was 14, according to Attorney General Josh Shapiro. Read more

(The Center Square) – The White House is reportedly considering a new tax on the investments and assets of wealthier Americans to help fund several trillion dollars in proposed social spending. Read more

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(The Center Square) – U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was noncommittal about running for office next year when questioned about it on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday. Read more