CHICAGO — Strong wind and torrential rain buffeted the Midwest this morning as forecasters predicted the giant storm could be the most powerful to hit Illinois in over s...
HARRISBURG — Gov. Ed Rendell is calling on Republicans who control the state Senate to resume negotiations over a prospective tax on natural-gas drilling.
The Democratic...
FAIRVIEW TWP — Brandon Ellenberger's mother fondly recalls her son's passions and distinctive personality in the aftermath of his death while crossing the road near his ...
WASHINGTON — Federal banking regulators are examining whether mortgage companies cut corners on their own procedures when they moved to foreclose on people's homes, Fede...
WASHINGTON — New medium- and heavy-duty trucks will have to cut fuel consumption and emissions by 10 to 20 percent under first standards announced today by the Obama adm...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwanese rescuers searching mountainsides hit by massive mudslides unleashed by Typhoon Megi found mangled parts of a vehicle thought to be a bus that ...
PARIS — Families hoping to get away for France's school holidays faced train delays and gas shortages Saturday as strikes against the government's pension reform stretch...
PITTSBURGH — A Cranberry Township couple turned themselves into authorities here Friday as they were charged with allegedly transferring cash out of a million dollar tru...
VATICAN CITY — Bishops from the Middle East who were summoned to Rome by the pope demanded Saturday that Israel accept U.N. resolutions calling for an end to its "occupa...
LOS ANGELES — A beachgoer has died in a shark attack off the Central California coast and three beaches are closed.
An official with knowledge of the case says the perso...
