STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Mountain Gymnastics Academy (MGA) is proud to announce that Xcel Platinum gymnast Mady Byers delivered an outstanding performance at the 2025 Region 7 Xcel Gymnastics Championships, capturing first place on the floor exercise in her age group. The event was held at the Nittany Valley Sports Centre in State College, Pennsylvania, on May 16, 2025.
Byres dazzled the judges with her powerful tumbling and expressive choreography, earning a winning score of 9.7 on the floor
ChatGPT is coming for your job.
That’s the fear about the rapid advances in artificial intelligence.
In a headline the other day, Axios warned of a “white-collar bloodbath.” The CEO of the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic told the publication that AI could destroy half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next one to five years and drive the unemployment rate up to 10-20%, or roughly Great Depression levels.
This sounds dire, but we’ve been here before. In the 1930s, John Maynard
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MABIE – A Randolph County man faces three felony charges involving minors after being arrested during a multi-department felony fugitive apprehension attempt, the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office announced.
Pete Rameriz Perez, 45, is charged with gross neglect of a child creating a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury, distributing or exhibiting material depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and soliciting a minor via computer, all felonies.
He is currently being
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ELKINS — Elkins High School’s Hailey Riffle has been selected to the all-Big 10 Conference softball first-team.
Riffle, a junior, was tabbed as an infielder.
Buckhannon-Upshur and Philip Barbour placed two players each on the first unit.
Representing the Lady Bucs are sophomore Kynnedy Marple, who was selected as one of the utility players, and freshman outfielder Madi Knabenshue, while senior pitcher Avery McDaniel and catcher Katelyn Cooper were selected for the Lady Colts.
The remainder of
DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Scottie Scheffler is the Memorial winner for the second year in a row.
The world’s No. 1 player delivered another relentless performance.
He shot 70 in the final round and turned a decent duel into another runaway.
He wound up winning by four shots over Ben Griffin.
That makes Scheffler the first back-to-back winner at Memorial since Tiger Woods.
Lately his game has looked a lot more like the tournament host Jack Nicklaus.
Scheffler now has won three of his last four
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — At least 31 people were killed and over 170 were wounded Sunday as large crowds were on their way to receive food in the Gaza Strip, health officials and witnesses said. Witnesses said Israeli forces fired toward the crowds just before dawn around a kilometer (about 1,100 yards) from an aid site run by an Israeli-backed foundation.
Israel’s military denied its forces fired at civilians near or within the site in the southern city of Rafah. An Israeli military official,
ERIN, Wis. (AP) — Maja Stark has lost her confidence heading into the U.S. Women’s Open.
Her decision to stop worrying about that sparked her to the biggest title in women’s golf.
The 25-year-old Swede shot an even-par 72 on Sunday and stayed ahead all day. Her four-day total of 7-under 281 at Erin Hills left her two strokes ahead of top-ranked Nelly Korda and Japan’s Rio Takeda.
“I think that I just stopped trying to control everything, and I just kind of let everything happen the way it
NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift has regained control over her entire body of work.
In a lengthy note posted to her official website on Friday, Swift announced: “All of the music I’ve ever made now belongs to me.”
The pop star said she purchased her catalog of recordings — originally released through Big Machine Records — from their most recent owner, the private equity firm Shamrock Capital. She did not disclose the amount.
In recent years, Swift has been rerecording and releasing her first six
Yes, I’m a Democrat and proud of it. You don’t hear those words much these days, and to be affiliated with the party of JFK, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden is not popular in West Virginia right now. I’ve been called a “lib,” a “bleeding heart,” and other names I will not mention, but that’s OK. Ultimately, I know I’m on the right side of history.
In case you’ve forgotten, the afore-mentioned former Presidents have been responsible for such transformative measures
ELKINS — Early voting for Elkins’ upcoming June 10 Municipal Election began this week.
Elkins voters from all five wards can cast early ballots at the modular building currently housing the City of Elkins Municipal Court on Fourth Street behind Elkins City Hall. Directional signs are posted on Davis Avenue and Fourth Street.
The early voting site is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m on Saturdays. Early voting ends on June 7.
Due to the early voting
