Two American scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and could be used in the future to create other shots.
Katalin Karikó, a professor at Sagan’s University in Hungary and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Drew Weissman, of the University of Pennsylvania, were awarded the prize for "their groundbreaking findings, which have fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system.
TAMPA, Fla. (TND) — Authorities say they stopped part of a theft ring that involved selling brand new appliances stolen from new construction homes in Florida.
Those homes were in five counties, and three men were arrested — accused of buying the appliances and reselling them in two makeshift showrooms: a house and a storage facility, in and around Tampa.
Detectives said one of the suspects had even been “publishing the stolen appliances for sale online.
A history of the East Broad Top Railroad
2024-05-17
HUNTINGDON CO, Pa (WJAC) — Despite the pandemic, the Friends of the East Broad Top organization is currently busy on restoration work at the East Broad Top railroad site.
In conjunction with Orbisonia’s bicentennial celebration, the site operated as a tourist attraction, from 1960 until 2011.
In this week's Road Trippin' segment, we take a look at the site's history and the repairs it's undergoing.
“The East Broad Top Railroad started construction in 1872, to serve originally the iron mines that were located just east of here.
JEFFERSON COUNTY, OH (WJAC) — A former friar from the Franciscans of St. Francis in Loretto, who authorities say is accused of raping a student in Ohio, pleaded not guilty in court Wednesday.
David Morrier pleaded not guilty to rape and sexual battery and was released with no bail during his arraignment Wednesday in Steubenville, Ohio according to 6 News' sister station WTOV9.
The incident allegedly occurred at Franciscan University of Steubenville.
2023 HS football playoffs Week 3(All games scheduled for 7 pm on Friday, Nov. 17th, unless otherwise noted)
District 6Class 1A championship:
Purchase Line 13 vs Cambria Heights 27 @ Mansion Park in Altoona
Class 2A championship:
Richland 0 vs Bald Eagle 49 @ Mansion Park in Altoona on Saturday, Nov. 18th (kickoff scheduled for 7 pm)
Class 3A subregional:
Clearfield 35 vs Central 41 @ DuBois F/2OT
Class 6A subregional:
Teen shot, killed outside Penn Hills bar
2024-05-17
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CHICAGO (TND) — Police at the University of Chicago removed the school’s “Popular University of Gaza” encampment early Tuesday morning, leading some protesters to claim they were "ambushed."
UChicago students created the anti-Israel encampment in tandem with students at other universities across the country. These encampments have become hotbeds of anti-Israel and anti-American sentiment in recent weeks as protesters rally in support of Palestine.
Campus police, according to Instagram page UChicagoUnited, “attacked” students at 4:40 a.
ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday told Morehouse College graduates during his commencement speech that he heard their voices of protest over the Israel-Hamas war, and that scenes from the conflict in Gaza have been heartbreaking.
“I support peaceful nonviolent protest," he told students at the all-male, historically Black college, some who wore keffiyeh scarves around their shoulders on top of their black graduation robes. "Your voices should be heard, and I promise you I hear them.
Three misdemeanor charges were filed Monday against the son of Philadelphia Flyers interim general manager Danny Briere after a video posted on social media showed him and another Mercyhurst University athlete pushing an unoccupied wheelchair down a staircase.
Police in Erie, Pennsylvania, filed charges of criminal mischief, criminal conspiracy to commit mischief and disorderly conduct against Carson Briere, who completed his third hockey season at Mercyhurst. Patrick Carrozzi, listed as a senior member of the school’s lacrosse team, faces the same three charges, according to documents filed with District Judge Sue Mack.