Justice was done in the Philadelphia courtroom when a jury found former state Sen. Vincent Fumo, D-Phila., guilty on all 137 counts of public corruption. But a great inj...
Muddy Creek Township residents should be satisfied with the financial safeguards that the township supervisors have put in place in the aftermath of a former township se...
Seven Fields officials' approval of the transfer of a liquor license to the borough's Giant Eagle store is further evidence that Pennsylvania is moving slowly — very slo...
It's not uncommon for police officers in small towns to overlook minor ordinance violations. Most times those minor infractions don't seriously impact anyone, and many o...
Overshadowed by the excessive coverage of Michael Jackson's death and other news from Iraq and California, a disturbing report from Washington, D.C., received far less m...
Tuesday will mark two weeks that the state of Pennsylvania has operated without an approved budget.
And with so much time having elapsed since the 2008-09 budget became ...
None of the three Butler County commissioners is an expert on operation of a county nursing home. None of them ever has claimed to be.
But they're faced with a big decis...
Most employees handling money for businesses and government aren't crooks. In most cases, those employees take their responsibilities seriously and are concerned about e...
Four years ago this week, Pennsylvania state lawmakers approved a generous pay raise for themselves at 2 a.m. Voter outrage over the pay-raise vote and related abuse of ...
Since he has been in office, Gov. Ed Rendell has had an insatiable appetite for spending. State spending has increased by more than $7 billion, or 36 percent, since 2003...