PHILADELPHIA — A close friend and former aide to convicted Pennsylvania lawmaker Vincent Fumo is charged with taking $287,000 for no-work Senate contracts.
U.S. prosecut...
PITTSBURGH — Several protest groups staged demonstrations around the city today and a protesters' coalition planned an unpermitted march called a "People's Uprising" as ...
LAKEWOOD, N.J. — Gunfire erupted as a police tactical squad executed a no-knock search warrant in a New Jersey suburb this morning, leaving four officers and a suspect s...
A $10,000 payment was made this morning toward the $17,850 in restitution a former tax collector owes to the school and community she victimized.
That eleventh-hour paym...
BOSTON — The governor of Massachusetts has picked former Democratic national chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. to temporarily replace the late Edward M. Kennedy in the U.S. Sena...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — As support for the community activist group ACORN withered in Congress in the wake of a hidden-camera scandal, Republican governors and other state off...
BOSTON — The sons of the late Edward M. Kennedy urged the governor to pick Paul G. Kirk Jr., the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, to temporarily rep...
DENVER — Colorado is bracing for a second wave of wintry weather, with up to 16 inches of snow expected in the mountains by Wednesday afternoon.
The National Weather Ser...
WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton said he believes President Barack Obama is wise to step back and rethink U.S. policy in Afghanistan before approving the dispa...
UNITED NATIONS — President Barack Obama today declared the United States is a serious partner in combating global warming, telling world peers "we are determined to act....
