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Truck driver who fatally struck 3 Pennsylvania highway workers fell asleep at the wheel

LEWISBERRY, Pa. — A truck driver fell asleep at the wheel before striking a construction vehicle and killing three workers on the shoulder of a Pennsylvania highway in Ap...

May 10, 2024 Pennsylvania News

Nearly every county in Pennsylvania is short on public defenders, according to a new report

Pennsylvania has an insufficient number of public defenders in nearly every county, according to a new report from a University of Pennsylvania law professor, hampering t...

May 09, 2024 Pennsylvania News

Pennsylvania to ban cellphone use while driving and require police to collect traffic stop data

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania will join the majority of states that ban motorists from handling a cellphone for almost any purpose while driving, as backers of the legislatio...

May 09, 2024 Pennsylvania News

Homeless encampment cleared from drug-plagued Philadelphia neighborhood

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police have cleared out a homeless encampment in a city neighborhood where drug use has been pervasive for years, but homeless advocates and o...

May 09, 2024 Pennsylvania News

Pennsylvania House passes bill restricting how social media companies treat minors

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s state House of Representatives on Wednesday approved legislation aimed at regulating how online social media platforms interact with children,...

May 08, 2024 Pennsylvania News

Pennsylvania sees fewer mail ballots rejected for technicalities, a priority for election officials

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania election officials said Wednesday that the number of mail-in ballots rejected for technicalities, like a missing date, saw a significant drop in...

May 08, 2024 Pennsylvania News

Kelly introduces amendment to negate Department of Energy mandate

An amendment introduced by U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-16th, that would fully repeal a U.S. Department of Energy rule that threatens the future of domestic grain-oriented ele...

May 07, 2024 Pennsylvania News

Pennsylvania Senate approves GOP’s $3B tax-cutting plan, over objections of top Democrats

HARRISBURG — Republican lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation for a $3 billion tax cut, their just-unveiled counterproposal to Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s budget p...

May 07, 2024 Pennsylvania News

Students invited to take part in Paint the Plow

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is inviting high school students from District 10 — which includes Butler, Armstrong, Clarion, Indiana and Jefferson countie...

May 07, 2024 Government

1 natural gas transport plan killed in New Jersey as another forges ahead

KEYPORT, N.J. — A major pipeline that would have moved natural gas through New Jersey and under two bays to New York has been killed, but another plan to transport liquef...

May 06, 2024 Business

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