By Riley Yates, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa. Apr. 25--Springfield Township residents to PPL: Don't tread on our rural areas. Two-thirds of voters in Springfield on Tuesday signed an election-day petition meant to pressure PPL Corp.

By Julie M. Mckinnon, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Mar. 23--The third time in a matter of months that Florence Kolodziejczyk was hospitalized, her daughter was told the 89-year-old retired factory worker could not go home without around-the-clock care.

By Colette M. Jenkins, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Dec. 22--Guided tours of the Bethlehem Cave, a replica of the cave where Jesus is believed to have been born as it appears today in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, will be offered Thursday, Friday and next Saturday.

By Scott Kraus, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa. Mar. 22--After spending 50 years in the business of caring for horses and teaching riding at Pleasant Hollow Farm in Springfield Township, the Cory family has decided the time is right to move on.

Jul. 13--NEW SPRINGFIELD -- Mahoning County Prosecutor Paul Gains is unhappy with two Springfield Township trustees' handling of a controversy over personal use of township-issued cell phones.