At issue is whether the pursuit of natural gas in the Marcellus Shale is safe. As the state opens more publicly owned acreage to gas drilling to fill a budget gap, environmental advocates are calling for the state to prove the potential drilling won't have adverse effects.
Some teachers this summer are finding themselves back in school. Robert Dribble, an elementary teacher at Blue Ridge School District examines macroinvertebrates found in a stream at Keystone College which can help gauge the health of a watershed area.
The modern army may have the kind of firepower its predecessors could only dream about, but there is one battle the fighting forces of previous centuries would win hands down: the battle of the book.