PITTSBURGH — PennDOT plans to raise the ceiling of the Squirrel Hill Tunnels in Pittsburgh in hopes of easing the bottlenecks the tunnels create into and out of city.
Th...
WASHINGTON (AP) — GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah says he'll oppose Solicitor General Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court.
Hatch is a former Senate Judiciary chai...
WASHINGTON — A wave of census layoffs cut the nation's payrolls in June for the first time in six months, but private employers added a modest number of jobs.
That caus...
NEW ORLEANS — BP's massive oil spill today became the largest ever in the Gulf of Mexico based on the highest of the federal government's estimates, an ominous record th...
CRANBERRY TWP — The Westinghouse Electric Co. announced this morning that Shigenori Shiga has been named chairman, replacing Steve Tritch, who retired July 1.
Shiga has ...
ST. LOUIS — The Veterans Administration said today the chief of dental services at a St. Louis VA Medical Center was placed on administrative after the hospital urged ne...
WASHINGTON — The Senate today unanimously confirmed Gen. David Petraeus as the new commander of the Afghanistan war, and President Barack Obama swiftly issued a statemen...
DETROIT — A group of lawmakers today said the idea to stop the spread of the invasive Asian carp by permanently separating waterways linking the Mississippi River and th...
BUFFALO TWP — Teachers in the Freeport School District have a new contract.
Both the teachers and the school board on Wednesday approved a new five-year contract.
The ne...
DETROIT — General Motors Co. announced today that sales of cars and trucks fell nearly 13 percent from May to June, a sign that this year's slow recovery in auto sales m...
