Internet experts call it ransomware, a very particular type of virus that infects computers and restricts users’ access to their files or threatens the permanent destruction of their information unless a ransom — anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars — is paid. The virus ...

Pennsylvania’s state House rejected a bill last week allowing courts to invoke “extreme risk protection orders” on gun owners — orders that would allow authorities to require gun owners to surrender their firearms for the period the order is in effect. It was a close vote — 102 to ...

Students in Eastern Lycoming County’s borough of Picture Rocks are learning about history. It is a timely lesson, as the community is celebrating the 150th anniversary of its charter. Students and community members, as reported in Monday’s edition of the Sun-Gazette, opened a time capsule ...

When the founders of these United States sat down to craft a document that would be the foundation of the new nation’s government, they agreed to outline certain basic guarantees to its citizens. And right at the top of the Bill of Rights was the promise that the government would not ...

We agree with a recent column by Andy Tubbs, president and CEO of the Energy Association of Pennsylvania, which was published in the weekend edition of the Williamsport Sun-Gazette. “‘All of the Above’ is a familiar phrase in energy debates,” Tubbs wrote. “It means we must be open ...

We remain deeply disappointed that the future of City Hall is only a little more clear — if at all — than it was months ago. We want to emphasize that this not PFM consultant Gordon Mann’s failing or responsibility. We appreciate his remarks and his attempt to look at many facets of the ...