HARRISBURG — Halfway through the state's fiscal year, Pennsylvania's tax collections are on target with budget projections.

Officials said Thursday the state government has taken in $12.3 billion, despite sluggish collections in December.

Revenue from the two most lucrative tax lines — the sales tax and personal income tax — trailed projections by less than a percentage point between July and December.

Corporate tax revenue over the six-month period totaled $1.3 billion, exceeding estimates by 4.6 percent. But tax collections on inheritances, realty transfers, cigarettes, malt beverages, liquor and table games lagged projections.

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Game Commission says it's detected chronic wasting disease in a white-tailed deer for the first time in a year.The game commission said Thursday that the positive sample came from a 1½-year-old buck struck on Interstate 99 in November.It says the positive test is unlikely to have much impact on hunters.The buck was killed within a 900-square-mile disease management area in south-central Pennsylvania that includes two sites where chronic wasting disease was previously detected.Some deer samples collected in 2013 haven't been tested.The state Department of Agriculture announced Pennsylvania's first known case in 2012, from a 3-year-old captive doe in Adams County.After that, two deer killed in Blair County and one in Bedford County by hunters during the 2012 season tested positive.