WASHINGTON — Border Patrol agents have racked up daily overtime at a cost of about $1.4 billion in the past six years while the number of arrests of illegal border cross...
WASHINGTON — The unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent in January.
It dropped for the fifth consecutive month after a surge of January hiring, a promising shift in the n...
GREENVILLE — A compressor at a natural gas well in northwestern Pennsylvania caught fire this morning and burned for about three hours, prompting at least one nearby hom...
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s top court vowed today to charge the prime minister with contempt for failing to reopen an old corruption case against the president, escalating a ...
EL-ARISH, Egypt — A senior security official says two female American tourists and their Egyptian guide have been freed hours after they were abducted at gunpoint near S...
HARRISBURG — The administration of Gov. Tom Corbett is relaxing the guidelines of an asset test it wants to impose on people seeking food stamps, and now says it wants t...
HARRISBURG — Jurors are deliberating the fate of a long-powerful Pennsylvania lawmaker accused of using state employees and other public resources for political campaign...
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s Punxsutawney Phil emerged this morning from his lair to “see” his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter.
The groundhog made his ...
EAST FRANKLIN TWP, Armstrong County — A state police trooper was seriously injured this morning when a car hit him as he cleared debris from the ramp from Route 422 onto...
WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida is in decline around the world but it is still a leading threat to the United States, joined by others like Iran, the top U.S. intelligence officia...
