Classes have resumed for more than 100,000 students who attend Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities. Classes resumed Monday after the union representing more than 5,000 faculty members and coaches reached a tentative contract agreement Friday with the State System of Higher Education. The new contract provides raises for all employees but… Read More
Spooky! Abandoned mental hospital draws curious trespassers
They have heard the stories of floating orbs and disembodied voices, and officials at the University of Connecticut say they really shouldn’t have to tell people that the abandoned mental institution the school owns is not actually haunted. “As far as I know, we have no confirmed ghost sightings,” said… Read More
Tragic California bus crash leaves scores killed, injured
A maintenance crew had slowed down traffic on a California highway through the night, and the work had gone on for hours without problems. Then a tour bus returning to Los Angeles from a casino trip slammed into the back of a semi-truck. Passengers who were asleep on the bus… Read More
Victory for history! Ruby slippers reach goal for preservation
Smithsonian officials are “over the rainbow” after reaching their fundraising goal to help preserve the ruby slippers from “The Wizard Oz.” The Smithsonian launched a Kickstarter campaign last week to raise $300,000 to help preserve the slippers that whisked Dorothy back to Kansas at the end of the movie. Officials… Read More
Famous 60’s activist dies
Famed ’60s anti-war activist Tom Hayden, whose name became forever linked with the celebrated Chicago 7 trial, Vietnam War protests and his ex-wife actress Jane Fonda, has died. He was 76. He died on Sunday after a long illness, said his wife, Barbara Williams, noting that he suffered a stroke… Read More
The curse is over! Cubs headed to World Series
With a mix of euphoria, relief and disbelief, long-suffering Chicago Cubs fans are shaking off superstitions and setting their sights on the team’s first World Series in 71 years. Loyal fans as far south as San Antonio, Texas, and as far west as Washington state restructured their worldviews to include… Read More
[Weather Alert] Experts warn tropical storm strengthening to hurricane
Tropical Storm Seymour is strengthening not far from Mexico’s coast and forecast to become a hurricane on Monday. The National Hurricane Center said Sunday night that the storm is centered about 370 miles (595 km) south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, and has maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (80 kph). Seymour… Read More
95-year-old fire chief, WWII vet’s record-breaking retirement
A Pennsylvania fire chief is announcing his retirement just ahead of his 95th birthday. J. Edward Hutchinson — affectionately known as “Hutch” — has served more than six decades as Greensburg’s fire chief but has decided not to run for a 22nd term. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports the fire department will… Read More
Revealed! The conspirators behind presidential debate bias
Were the presidential debates unbiased? Supporters of Donald Trump have — for weeks — vocally protested the debates were unfair to the Republican presidential candidate. They were right — and here’s how we know. With the final presidential debate under wraps, and polls flooding in declaring who the true winner… Read More
Massive internet blackout
If you’ve been having trouble getting access to The Horn News and your other favorite websites, you are not alone. There have been reports of widespread internet disruption all across the East Coast of the United States after a major internet company was hit by a large cyberattack. User information… Read More