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Former President Donald Trump visited a grocery store in Pennsylvania on Monday where he gave $100 to a struggling mother of three. The former president was visiting the Sprankles grocery store in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, when he turned to a mother at the checkout stand to give her a little gift. “Here, it’s going to go down a little bit,” the former president said, referring to her grocery price tag. “It just went down $100 bucks.”

(Note: Croyle also runs a paper and a radio station) Kittanning (PA) Council does not have the authority to remove a councilman from office despite charges he engaged in sexual contact with a disabled 14-year-old, Council President Kim Chiesa said Friday. On Thursday, Council Vice President David John Croyle, 60, was arrested and charged with felony counts of statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor, aggravated indecent assault of a person with a mental disability, corruption of minors and related charges. Croyle is the editor and publisher of the Kittanning Paper and senior pastor at...

KITTANNING, Pa. -- Residents of Kittanning are already squaring off on health care reform while waiting for Sen. Arlen Specter to arrive for a meeting slated for 3 p.m. Recent town hall meetings have ended with people shouting at lawmakers over health care reform. Specter has been on the receiving end of some of the anger. Today's town hall meeting will be held at the Belmont Complex in Kittanning. The event will be livestreamed on WPXI.com. Some people began lining up as early as 6 a.m. to make sure they get a seat in the front row. And all morning...

KITTANNING - Borough Police Chief Ed Cassesse said his department received more than a dozen calls within five minutes regarding several box-van trucks that were driving through city streets with graphic anti-abortion posters on their sides. According to Kathy Knepshield, a staff member of the Armstrong County YMCA, several of the trucks rolled past the YMCA on North Water Street around noon and one of the drivers was allegedly taking photos of children in an outdoor day camp. Knepshield said the posters, bearing images of an aborted fetus, upset many of the children in the camp. "The first time a...