U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell last week, remaining in the historically healthy range of the past couple years. The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims for the ...

A fun alternative to the ultra-competitive world of PGA and LPGA events takes place this weekend. I’ve always found the ...

Novak Djokovic began expressing a heartfelt thought about returning to the semifinals at the All England Club — “It means the ...

The Fifth Dimension’s 1967 hit song invited listeners to go “Up, Up, and Away,” in a beautiful hot air balloon and so does ...

Six student athletes who recently transferred to Bishop McCort Catholic had eligibility hearings on Thursday. Three players ...

The Alum Bank Classic Weekend will be held through Sunday, July 13, at the Alum Bank Volunteer Fire Company hall, 6738 King St. Clair Road, Alum Bank (Pleasantville). Friday evening pickup truck pulls ...

To celebrate 100 years of service to Blair County and inspiring mobility and independence, AMBUCS Altoona is hosting a luncheon at noon Tuesday, July 15, at the Blair County Convention Center.

Penn State Altoona Athletics announced on Thursday the hiring of Joey Zins to be the head coach of its recently reinstated ...

The Dallas Stars traded Matt Dumba to Pittsburgh in a swap of defensemen Thursday, with Dallas getting Vladislav Kolyachonok ...

Irish rider Ben Healy won a hilly sixth stage of the Tour de France after a long solo breakaway on Thursday and Mathieu van ...

Years of American-led investment into AIDS programs has reduced the number of people killed by the disease to the lowest levels seen in more than three decades and provided life-saving medicines for ...

On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the pre-dawn hours spent pacing a frigid immigration jail in Louisiana, ...