WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is canceling student loans for another 160,000 borrowers through a combination of existing programs. The Education Department announced the latest round of cancellation on Wednesday, saying it will erase $7.7 billion in federal student loans. With the latest action, the administration said it has canceled $167 billion in student debt for nearly 5 million Americans through several programs. “From day one of my administration, I promised to fight to ensure higher education is a ticket to the middle class, not a barrier to opportunity,” President Joe Biden said in a statement.

MARTINSBURG/BLAIR COUNTY, Pa — In Blair County today, the Town of Martinsburg paid homage to a group of Civil War heroes who fought in the Battle of Gettysburg. 70 Union soldiers from the Morrisons Cove Area were honored with a memorial in Morrisons Cove Memorial Park on Saturday. Former Martinsburg Borough Manager Randy Stoltz spent several years researching and planning to make this possible. “I’m very excited to see this day come, it’s been two years in the the making, we got started two years ago and then COVID kind of slowed everything down,"

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A former guard at a Pennsylvania prison has been sentenced to nine months of probation for having sex with an inmate while she was out on work release nearly a decade ago. Jeffrey Staff was one of seven guards to be charged with sexually abusing inmates at Lackawanna County Prison. He pleaded no contest to official oppression and was sentenced Thursday. The 43-year-old from Clarks Summit has also been barred from getting another job in a prison or law enforcement.

Westmoreland County, PA — Authorities with the Westmoreland County District Attorney's office say a Ligonier Township man is behind bars after he allegedly stabbed another man in the face and stomach over the weekend. Investigators say on Sunday evening, police were called to a home along Green Valley Drive for reports of a stabbing. Police say the victim told officers that 46-year-old Michael Glass had allegedly attacked him and stabbed him in the face and stomach.

VAL D'ISERE, France (AP) — A group of American skiers are taking it all off in an effort to raise some money. Five female and six male ski racers have joined together to pose in a nude calendar they hope will help them overcome high costs — and scarce funding — on the professional ski tour. Called "Under the Suit: The Bodies of the Ski Team," the calendar features the skiers in naked action shots: Either on the slopes or mountain biking in Chile and New Zealand, or pumping iron at their local gym in Park City, Utah.