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GREENSBURG — Longtime Butler Eagle sports editor Mike Surkalo died today at a Westmoreland County hospital. Surkalo, who retired in 1985 after 39 years as sports editor,...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said there has been progress in talks over taxing natural gas extraction, although the state's top senator said he has not chan...

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors in New York City say dozens of people are charged in a $100 million Medicare fraud scam with overseas connections. Authorities call it the...

ISLAMABAD — International lenders are estimating this summer's floods caused $9.5 billion in damage to Pakistan's infrastructure, agriculture and other sectors, a govern...

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — The miners emerged like clockwork, jubilantly embracing wives, children and rescuers and looking remarkably composed today after languishing for 6...

WASHINGTON — The government's most comprehensive crime survey shows violent and property crimes continued to decrease last year even as the nation's economy slumped, con...

PHILADELPHIA — A preliminary study by researchers with the Academy of Natural Sciences asserts that rivers and streams could be at risk of pollution because of a boom in...

WASHINGTON — Officials in 49 states and the District of Columbia have launched a joint investigation into allegations that mortgage companies mishandled documents and br...

HARRISBURG — A set of proposed regulations designed to improve the safety of drilling into the Marcellus Shale natural gas reserve has the approval of a Pennsylvania sta...

PITTSBURGH — Lynne Agnew, whose trial for attempted murder was to start this week, instead pleaded guilty this morning and was sentenced to a state prison term of 9 to 2...