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When Bryan Calhoun goes on a Target run, he avoids the store in Wynnewood, Pa., just a few miles away from his home in Broomall, a western suburb of Philadelphia. He opts...
ROARING SPRING, Pa. — A Pennsylvania school district's decision to remove a song from a recent student choral concert has divided the community and spurred a review by a ...
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As spring and summer activities draw more people outdoors, ticks have more opportunities to create problems.
“Tick season” in Pennsylvania generally lasts from April to O...
PHILADELPHIA — New federal estimates show Philadelphia remains the nation's sixth-most-populous city, despite a decline in population throughout the pandemic.
But the U.S...
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP, Lawrence County — School groups, tour groups, and other park visitors came out in droves to see a piece of history on Thursday morning, May 16, as the ...
ALLENTOWN — A man has been arrested and charged with killing a 78-year-old woman in her eastern Pennsylvania home more than 35 years ago, authorities announced Thursday.
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A police pursuit through two states that involved two separate shootouts with law enforcement officers and several crashes ended with the death of the woman being sought,...
HARRISBURG — Natural gas producer CNX Resources said it plans to build a $1.5 billion facility at Pittsburgh’s airport to make hydrogen-based fuels, but only if President...
The fifth annual Engines at the Museum event at the Armstrong County Historical Museum in Kittanning will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 2.
The museum will dem...
PHILADELPHIA — Pro-Palestinian demonstrators with Jewish Voices for Peace shut down a street for an hour on Tuesday to protest the investment of private and taxpayer doll...
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden slapped major new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, advanced batteries, solar cells, steel, aluminum and medical equipment on Tuesday...
PUNXSUTAWNEY — Punxsutawney Phil's offspring now have names that just might help the famed weather-forecasting groundhog to predict when spring will begin.
Phil’s human h...
WASHINGTON — A high-ranking White House aide is traveling to Pittsburgh on Tuesday to highlight a massive infusion of federal dollars as President Joe Biden ramps up his ...
Parsley, an 11-year-old goat, ambled over to several children who gathered to watch his first day on the job.
He patiently let them pat him but soon had to get back to w...
LEWISBERRY, Pa. — A truck driver fell asleep at the wheel before striking a construction vehicle and killing three workers on the shoulder of a Pennsylvania highway in Ap...
Pennsylvania has an insufficient number of public defenders in nearly every county, according to a new report from a University of Pennsylvania law professor, hampering t...
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania will join the majority of states that ban motorists from handling a cellphone for almost any purpose while driving, as backers of the legislatio...
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police have cleared out a homeless encampment in a city neighborhood where drug use has been pervasive for years, but homeless advocates and o...
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s state House of Representatives on Wednesday approved legislation aimed at regulating how online social media platforms interact with children,...
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania election officials said Wednesday that the number of mail-in ballots rejected for technicalities, like a missing date, saw a significant drop in...
An amendment introduced by U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-16th, that would fully repeal a U.S. Department of Energy rule that threatens the future of domestic grain-oriented ele...
HARRISBURG — Republican lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation for a $3 billion tax cut, their just-unveiled counterproposal to Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget p...
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is inviting high school students from District 10 — which includes Butler, Armstrong, Clarion, Indiana and Jefferson countie...
KEYPORT, N.J. — A major pipeline that would have moved natural gas through New Jersey and under two bays to New York has been killed, but another plan to transport liquef...
A man who tried to shoot a pastor during a service at a Pennsylvania church because “God told him to do it” was thwarted when his gun didn’t fire and he was tackled by a ...
PITTSBURGH — A steel drum weighing thousands of pounds somehow rolled out of a construction site in Pittsburgh and eventually struck and killed a woman who was walking on...
LAS VEGAS — A Pennsylvania man who authorities say killed his girlfriend in a Nevada desert has been convicted.
A jury in U.S. District Court in Nevada on Wednesday found...
A large staffing firm that performed COVID-19 contact tracing for Pennsylvania and exposed the private medical information of about 72,000 residents will pay $2.7 million...
