HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Oct. 6 -- Pennsylvania Auditor General Timothy DeFoor issued the following news release: * * * Auditor General DeFoor, Be Money $mart Partners Kick off Financial Planning Month with New Art Contest for PA Students * Camp Hill, PA - Auditor General Timothy L. DeFoor today kicked off a contest to design the cover of his department's first-ever Be Money $mart financial literacy activity book designed to help students and their caregivers learn how to plan for their fin  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Oct. 6 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Campus groups mark 2025 Indigenous Peoples Day with October events * UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Indigenous Peoples' Student Association and the Indigenous Faculty and Staff Alliance at Penn State, in coordination with the Paul Robeson Cultural Center, the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State and the Penn State Filipino Student Association, are offering events in October in recogni  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Oct. 6 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * College of Medicine awarded $3.3M grant to lead national preventive research hub * HERSHEY, Pa. -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Penn State College of Medicine a $3.3 million grant for two years to establish a national hub for guiding collaboration, data harmonization and community engagement across multiple awards funded by NIH institutes and centers. The hub will se  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Oct. 6 [Category: BizInsurance] -- Highmark, a health insurance company, issued the following news release: * * * Highmark Blue Shield Coat Distribution Brings Warmth to 400 Schenectady Students * * Children Hand-Select Winter Coats through Partnership with Operation Warm Latham, N.Y. (October 6, 2025) -- Highmark Blue Shield, with Operation Warm, today hosted a coat drive, providing a brand-new winter coat to all 400 students at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Elem  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Oct. 6 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Location, individual circumstances impact caregiver well-being, researchers find * UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Roughly a quarter of adults in the U.S. are caring for elderly family members or children with an illness or disability -- and sometimes both at the same time. Despite family caregiving consuming time and resources for both individuals and governments, social scientists don't fully un  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Oct. 6 -- The Pennsylvania House Republicans posted the following news: * * * New Proposal Aims to Strengthen Efforts to Find Vulnerable Missing Persons, Says Leadbeter * State Rep. Robert Leadbeter (R-Columbia) announced he intends to introduce legislation - dubbed as Aiden's Law - to establish a "Purple Alert" system in Pennsylvania to ensure the Commonwealth's most vulnerable citizens who go missing are brought home.  Similar to Amber Alert for abducted childre  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Oct. 6 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Oct. 15 seminar to spotlight Colombia's hydropower, electricity market * UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Camilo Younes-Velosa, a visiting scholar at Penn State and a tenured faculty member at Universidad Nacional de Colombia (National University of Colombia), will lead a seminar on the evolution of Colombia's electricity sector and market structure. His free talk -- "Can a Hydropower-Dependent M  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Oct. 6 -- The Pennsylvania House Republicans posted the following news: * * * PA House Approves Scialabba Bill to Improve Consumer Data Privacy * HARRISBURG - A bill sponsored by Reps. Stephenie Scialabba (R-Butler) and Ed Neilson (D-Philadelphia) to protect consumer information and privacy, House Bill 78, has been approved by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. "We live in an information-dependent world, with much of that data now digital in nature, making  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Oct. 7 -- The University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * Tulane's Vijay John to present 2025 Gerald D. Holder Distinguished Lecture Dr. Vijay John, the Leo S. Weil Professor in Engineering at Tulane University's School of Science and Engineering, will present the 2025 Gerald D. Holder Distinguished Lecture at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering on Friday, October 17 at 9:30 am in Benedum Hall. A 20  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Oct. 6 [Category: BizInsurance] -- Highmark, a health insurance company, issued the following news release: * * * Ronald McDonald House Honored as Highmark Community Hero at Sept. 28 Game * * $80,000 Awarded, 640 Bills Tickets Donated to Local Non-Profits through Program since 2021 Buffalo, N.Y. (October 6, 2025) -- As part of the Buffalo Bills Crucial Catch initiative, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield proudly recognized Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted the following news release: * * * Scott Perry Wants to Restrict Pennsylvania Women From Accessing Abortion Medication * The Trump Administration approved a new abortion pill that Pennsylvania women will now be able to access - but Congressman Scott Perry doesn't think that's a good thing. Perry joined a group of extreme anti-choice Republicans in signing a letter "calling for leaders at the Food and Drug Administr  more

GALLOWAY, New Jersey, Oct. 7 -- Stockton University issued the following news: * * * Donation Funds Special Collections, Preserves Local History Tom Kinsella grew up in a family of avid readers, with a particular passion for local history. It was a natural progression for Kinsella, Distinguished Professor of Literature at Stockton University, to pursue a career that landed him in libraries and classrooms in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Now, in order to preserve his passion for history and  more

WILMERDING, Pennsylvania, Oct. 6 [Category: BizTransportation] -- Wabtec, a provider of technology-based products and services for rail and industrial markets, issued the following news release: * * * Wabtec Announces Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Release Date * PITTSBURGH, October 6, 2025 - Wabtec Corporation (NYSE: WAB) announced it will report 2025 third quarter results before the U.S. financial markets open on October 22, 2025. The company will conduct a conference call to discuss those re  more