BARNSTABLE, Mass. (AP) — A robotic dog is being thanked by state police in Massachusetts for helping avert a tragedy involving a person barricaded in a home. The robotic dog named Roscoe was part of the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad and deployed on March 6 in a Barnstable house after police were fired upon. […]
A Ph.D. student who discovered a new species of dinosaur several years ago has officially published his findings and given the creature a name. Kyle Atkins-Weltman, who is studying anatomy and vertebrate paleontology at Oklahoma State University, was examining a set of dinosaur fossils identified as Anzu wyliei for a school project when he noticed […]
Dec. 22—Something inside Lee Heckrote told him something was wrong, that something bad had happened. The 41-year-old from Sinking Spring has been delivering newspapers for the Reading Eagle for the last 18 years. And for the past 12 years he has manned a route that winds through Wyomissing. One of his stops on that route […]
Dec. 20—SHAFT — A Shaft Road family of four escaped fire inside their residence late Monday when their 4-year-old son awakened to smoke in his bedroom and alerted his parents who were downstairs and unaware of the emergency. “The boy saved all their lives,” said Roger Bennett, deputy director of the Allegany County Department of […]