PENNSYLVANIA

Narcolepsy drug Provigil has gained popular use among many who lack the sleep disorder needed to be prescribed the drug. The medication for adults has been referred to as “Viagra for the mind” by users who have fallen in love with its grey matter-boosting properties.

The owner of the bar and restaurant chain Bikinis has purchased a ghost town from Craigslist and aims to rename it and rebrand it into a hip and popular tourist destination.

Chick-Fil-A President Dan Cathy responded to accusations that he’s a homophobe by saying he’s “guilty as charged,” in an interview with the Baptist Press. The accusations arose after it was revealed the company has thrown its weight behind strong anti-gay organizations such as Focus On The Family and the Pennsylvania Family Institute.

As Washington struggles to address America's intensifying fiscal woes, it is getting help from an independent and growing brigade of budget experts, business tycoons and civic leaders.

After former FBI Director Louis Freeh's report on the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse revealed that Pennsylvania State University's once-legendary football coach Joe Paterno actively covered up the scandal, controversy has erupted over the status of Paterno's memorial statue at Penn State.

Because the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes was found in the Mexicali Cheese Corp.'s finished product, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning people to neither consume nor purchase any of the company's products.

The Freeh Report found that the university's reaction to allegations against Jerry Sandusky was, indeed, inadequate

With the countless reports recently documenting a zombie apocalypse extending from the face-eating incident in Miami, Fla. to a Texas man who ate his pet dog, the mass hysteria has catapulted itself to the latest trendy fad: Zombie Races. Conceptualized by Reed Street Productions, fans of zombies will flock to locations nationwide for Run For Your Lives, a first-of-a-kind zombie infested 5K obstacle course race running from brain-hungry, virus-spreading, bloody zombie...

Kourtney Reppert, a 26-year-old blonde buxom model based in Los Angeles, is turning her cyberstalking horror story into a positive one after being the victim of vicious threats by a man named Luis Plascencia on the Internet, who sent her over 400 emails asking her to stop modeling in photos.

Scranton, Pa., Mayor Chris Doherty is in a deadlock with the city council and public-employee unions over budgetary issues. Unfortunately, 400 workers are having trouble paying their bills because of the blame game.

The heatwave that's ravaged the Midwest is moving east, bringing with it wildfire smoke and record breaking temperatures.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a bill offering relief to millions of American college students. The measure will keep the interest rate for subsidized federal loans at 3.4 percent. The law will benefit about 7.4 million college students.

An Akron, Ohio, restaurant owner who served U.S. President Barack Obama breakfast Friday morning died of an apparent heart attack right after meeting him.

The smartphone phenomenon has found its latest suitor in Amazon. Following the footsteps of Apple, mobile handset manufacturers, including giants such as Nokia, Samsung and HTC, forayed into the high technology market and witnessed significant change of fortunes. Now, the segment has attracted a new contender with Amazon's reported entry into the market.

A slew of crazed, often cannibalistic, attacks across the United States has left many people concerned about a so-called zombie apocalypse. But a craven new assault in Corpus Christi, Texas, -- has ignited fears about a vampire attacker.

Consumers, spooked by months of sluggish hiring and a global slowdown, pulled back on spending in June, which took a toll on top U.S. retailers' sales.

Two days after welcoming a baby boy, 31-year-old Carla Murphy of Altoona, Pennsylvania smoked bath salts and attacked the maternity ward staff at Altoona Regional Hospital.

Many residents will likely spend the Fourth of July barbequing without electricity and biting their tongues over how long it is taking to restore power.

More than 2 million people on the East Coast are without electricity, and power companies said it could take days for things to return to normal.

Officials advise people without power to beware of downed power lines and drink plenty of water while also looking out for their neighbors.

One week after the final chapter in the Penn State child sexual-abuse scandal seemed almost complete with the multiple convictions of the university's football team's retired defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, emails dating to 2001 have surfaced about the role of former head coach Joe Paterno.