ST. LOUIS — The Obama administration today proposed new antitrust rules for meat companies that reflect a willingness by the USDA to shift the balance of power between f...
HARRISBURG — Former Pennsylvania lawmaker Mike Veon will spend at least six years in prison for his role in a scheme to use taxpayer-funded resources for campaign purpos...
HARRISBURG — An FBI official said agents executed search warrants at the home and district office of a top Pennsylvania state senator.
FBI spokesman Frank Burton Jr. sai...
MIDDLEBURG, Pa. — State police say a northeastern Pennsylvania man is dead this morning after being shot by a police sniper following a 14-hour standoff.
State police id...
NEW ORLEANS — A rig drilling a relief well meant to stanch a gushing flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico is ahead of schedule and could reach its target over the next th...
WASHINGTON — The chairman of BP's board says that the oil company will suspend its quarterly dividend as part of its commitment to compensate victims of the Gulf oil spi...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court today has affirmed a ruling allowing Florida to undertake beach-widening projects without paying beachfront property owners who lose exclu...
GULF SHORES, Ala. — Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water off Florida beaches, like forest animals fleeing a fire. Mullets, crabs, rays and sm...
JEFFERSON TWP — Teacher contract strife is over in the South Butler School District until 2014.
In voting Tuesday, both the school board and teachers approved an six-yea...
WASHINGTON — Republicans and a dozen Democratic defectors in the Senate dealt a defeat to President Barack Obama just days after he pressed Congress to renew pieces of l...
