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When Santos Enrique Camara arrived at Shoreline Community College in Washington state to study audio engineering, he quickly felt lost.“It’s like a weird maze,” remembered Camara, who was 19 at the time and had finished high school with a 4.0 grade-point average. “You need help with your classes and financial aid? Well, here, take a number and run from office to office and see

THERE are more big changes ahead for Shetland’s retail sector after long established Lerwick business Home Furnishing was put on the market. It comes after national retailer M&Co went into administration and closed all its branches, including its Lerwick store, last week....

LERWICK Community Council offered no objections to plans to make temporary speed limits at the south end of the town permanent when the matter was discussed by members on Monday night. The speed limits relate to the road between Sound Brae and the Black Gaet junction, as well as...

MILLVILLE — One driver was killed and another severely injured in a head-on collision early Friday along Millville Road about three miles south of here, Hemlock Township police said.The accident happened as a northbound 2001 Ford Ranger operated by 24-year-old Eugene Travelpiece Jr.

BLOOMSBURG — Firefighters kept flames from spreading through a row of buildings on Main Street early Wednesday.A fire broke out inside a recently rented one-story storefront at 10 W. Main St. around 1:30 a.m. Colleen Tarantino sat in tears on the curb across the street as smoke poured from the spot she and husband Eric just put their life savings into.The Bloomsburg couple

BUCKHORN — Geisinger is hitting the brakes on the planned construction of a standalone orthopaedics hospital here, it announced Tuesday.The "facility was always viewed as an enabling project to free up space at Geisinger Medical Center for more private rooms and other much-needed improvements on the campus," Geisinger wrote in a statement provided to the Press Enterprise by

BOSTON (AP) — The governor of Massachusetts reminded pharmacies Wednesday that they are required to stock a key abortion pill, despite a nationwide effort by anti-abortion activists to ban the medication.The action comes as a federal judge in Texas is considering a lawsuit that would overturn decades-old federal approval of the drug.Democratic Gov.

DANVILLE — Montour County Commissioner Trevor Finn has been chosen as the the Democratic nominee to run for the vacant 108th District seat in the state House , which represents all Montour and sections of Northumberland County.He will join Republican nominee, Mike Stender of Sunbury, on the May 16 special election ballot, to fill a seat formerly held by Lynda Schlegel Culver,

A MAN from Northern Ireland who was found with £1,200 worth of cocaine after arriving off a flight at Sumburgh Airport has been fined. Darren Shaw, of Ballygormartin, Belfast, was found with the class A drug on 21 February last year. He admitted the possession charge at Lerwick...

A MAN from Lerwick who was found by police asleep in a parked van has been found guilty of being in charge of a vehicle while under the influence. Peter Sallai, of Burgh Road, faced trial at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Thursday. Sheriff Ian Cruickshank concluded that he was not...