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A school district tried to prosecute a Pennsylvania mom because her son’s health problems kept him from attending school – and the school didn’t back down until an attorney got involved. The controversy began when Leslie Sacks’ son entered high ...

A Pennsylvania court has ruled that a man cannot challenge a $280,722 tax bill, even though tax officials admit the information on the bill is fictional. Nathan Lerner, who relies on Social Security to pay his bills, received a “jeopardy ...

Organizing a seed-sharing effort or community seed library to trade heirloom seeds apparently is illegal in Pennsylvania – and may be illegal in other states, too. The folks at the Joseph T. Simpson Public Library in Mechanicsburg learned that the ...

A Pennsylvania woman claims doctors took her seven-day-old healthy baby and called police and social workers simply because she gave birth at home. She also says that doctors at St. Joseph’s Hospital transferred her baby to another hospital without her ...

State governments are not warning the public about potential dangers from fracking, according to a new lawsuit. Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is covering up cases of water contamination caused by natural gas fracking, a new lawsuit alleges. Instead ...

The next time police force you off the road, they may want more than your driver’s license; they may want a sample of your saliva. A practice call “Stop and Swab,” in which law enforcement check points are used to ...

A Pennsylvania man was so irritated about the high cost of local school taxes that he decided to pay the $7,143 he owed entirely in $1 bills. Rob Fernandes, a father of three homeschooled children, paid his school taxes in ...

Businesses and their attorneys now can use gag orders to deprive even children of their First Amendment right to freedom of speech. In a disturbing case in Pennsylvania, a drilling company was able to get a family a legal agreement ...

Raw milk farmers are under attack once again, this time in Pennsylvania. The Department of Agriculture is being accused of filing false claims about unpasteurized milk contamination. Your Family Farmer, a Chambersburg-based association of farms, was recently ordered to terminate ...

New England with its rocky terrain, acidic soil, humid summers, and cold winters may seem like a challenging locale for vegetable gardening, but keep in mind that almost every early colonist home had a cottage vegetable garden that produced much ...