Lafferty, 3 Nittany Lions invited to Penguins prospect camp
PITTSBURGH -- Hollidaysburg's Sam Lafferty will return to the Pittsburgh Penguins annual prospect development camp this week.
The Brown University rising senior is expected to compete in the camp which runs June 28-July 1 at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry, Pa.
The camp roster also includes three Penn State players.
Centers Chase Berger and Nikita Pavlychev - a 2015 Penguins' seventh round draft choice - along with winger Andrew Sturtz are listed on the roster released Monday by the team.
Safeway removes self-checkout at Bay Area stores following shoplifting spike
OAKLAND, Calif. (TND) — Safeway has removed self-checkout machines at several stores in the San Francisco Bay Area following a rise in theft, according to KRON.
The supermarket chain is reportedly removing the machines to crack down on shoplifting.
Operational changes have been made at select stores throughout the Bay Area given the increasing amount of theft,” Safeway told the outlet. “Those updates include adjustments to the front end of the store to deter shoplifting.
Video game therapy shows promising results for veterans with anxiety disorders
New technology is helping veterans cope with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and other anxiety disorders.
Psychologists at the James E. Van Zandt VA Medical Center are using video games that utilize neuro-feedback in order to re-train the brain to be less reactive to triggers.
The treatment gives the patient feedback on what's happening in their brain in real-time. It works by attaching sensors to a person’s head, over specific regions of the brain.
Conemaugh Health System holds ribbon cutting for new Ebensburg building
EBENSBURG, Pa (WJAC) — A ribbon cutting took place Thursday for the new Conemaugh Health System building on Cook Road in Ebensburg.
Health system officials said at least five Ebensburg offices will be combined into one.
Some services the facility will offer include urgent care, primary care and diagnostics.
The vice president of Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center said that a fixed CT scanner and a women's imaging center are also there.
ESPN apologizes and returns Emmys after submitting fake names for decades
BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — ESPN has apologized to the organization that administers the Sports Emmy Awards for submitting fake names in categories where they were not eligible to win.
"Some members of our team were clearly wrong in submitting certain names that may go back to 1997 in Emmy categories where they were not eligible for recognition or statuettes," the network said in a statement Thursday.
The Emmy scam was first revealed by The Athletic, which reported that ESPN personalities like Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso and Desmond Howard on "
GOP senators call to defund Syracuse University after convicted killer found at encampment
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (TND) — Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., say Syracuse University should lose its federal funding after a convicted killer was found staying at an anti-Israel encampment on its campus.
An encampment of over 70 tents has taken over Syracuse’s Quad in protest of the school’s refusal to condemn Israel in its war with Hamas terrorists. Individuals occupying the encampment have allegedly been witnessed “following Jewish students that walk past the tent encampment in an attempt to harass them.
Lt. Governor Davis joins striking UAW workers at Middletown Mack plant
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (WHP) — Lieutenant Governor Austin Davis met with striking workers from Middletown, Pa.'s Mack Truck plant Wednesday in support of the ongoing United Auto Workers (UAW) strike.
Davis joined members of UAW Local 677 at Angie's Diner and then drove to the picket line this afternoon in a show of solidarity.
CBS 21 spoke with Lt. Governor Davis who said:
Everyday, [when we] go to work in Harrisburg, we're putting working class families first.
Penn State football ticket prices increase for first time since 2009
Windber looking to become new home of 75-room hotel
WINDBER, Pa. - A hotel coming to Windber took a big step forward Tuesday.
Borough manager Jim Furmanchik said a feasibility study conducted by Hospitality Marketers International came back extremely favorable.
He said the study showed the borough could support a 75-room hotel.
Furmanchik said representatives were impressed with the area’s Flood City Elite baseball fields and Iron House complex. He added it would be the closest hotel to the Flight 93 Memorial, which would make the borough a prime location.
Beauty pageant can exclude transgender contestants, US appeals court rules
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal appellate court on Wednesday said a national beauty pageant has a First Amendment right to exclude a transgender woman from competing because including her could interfere with the message the pageant has said it wants to send about "what it means to be a woman."
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed by Anita Green, who said the Miss United States of America pageant violated an Oregon state anti-discrimination law when it barred her from competing in 2019.