WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Steven Chu said today that no one from the White House ever contacted him to make a political decision on a half-billion-dollar loan to a C...
ROME — As protests erupted in Rome and other cities, Italy’s new premier unveiled his economic plan today, vowing to spur growth yet fairly spread the sacrifices Italian...
WASHINGTON — A man was arrested today at a motel in Indiana County in connection with a shooting near the White House, the U.S. Secret Service said.
The Secret Service d...
NEW YORK — Two days after the encampment that sparked the global Occupy movement was cleared by authorities, demonstrators this morning blocked traffic into New York’s f...
WASHINGTON — The Secret Service says a bullet hit an exterior window of the White House and was stopped by ballistic glass.
An additional round of ammunition also was f...
STATE COLLEGE — Penn State has named Dr. David M. Joyner, a member of its board of trustees and a former wrestler and football player for the Nittany Lions, as its actin...
PITTSBURGH — Ousted Penn State University president Graham Spanier has resigned from the board at U.S. Steel.
Spanier has been a member of the steelmaker’s board since 2...
WASHINGTON — U.S. industrial production rose in October at the fastest rate in three months. Factories made more cars, electronics and business equipment, a sign that ma...
HARRISBURG — Hunters are awaiting Gov. Tom Corbett's signature on a repeal of a requirement that Pennsylvania hunters wear back tags. He has said he will sign it.
The st...
LUCASVILLE, Ohio — Ohio has executed a man who fatally shot his three sons while they slept in 1982, shortly after his wife filed for divorce.
Reginald Brooks, 66, of E...
