Race to begin in new year
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvanians won't elect their next governor for two years, but signs are popping up all over that the 2010 campaign is already i...
HARRISBURG — The chairman of the Pennsylvania Crime and Delinquency Commission says in-school anti-drug programs get some credit for results of a recent survey.
The Penn...
HARRISBURG — Democrats with adjoining state House districts in northeastern Pennsylvania came out on top in caucus elections Tuesday, while the Republican floor leader b...
Large natural gas reserve untapped
DALLAS, Pa. — Executives of drilling companies exploring a huge untapped reserve of natural gas say the economic windfall expected from...
HARRISBURG — A spokesman for Pennsylvania's governor says Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is scheduled to speak Friday at a Capitol ceremony to honor the late Lt. Gov. Cathe...
NEW CASTLE — A man has pleaded guilty to causing a house explosion that damaged nearly four dozen homes in an alleged suicide attempt.
Thirty-one-year-old Patrick Henry,...
PHILADELPHIA — A grand jury is investigating whether House Republican leaders illegally used a taxpayer-funded database as a campaign tool to better focus their messages...
PITTSBURGH — Allegheny County Medical Examiner Dr. Karl Williams says new safeguards are in place after a corpse was wrongly sent to Jamaica for burial.
Nineteen-year-ol...
He plans to run for whip instead
HARRISBURG — Rep. Bill DeWeese said Friday he has decided not to seek another term as Democratic leader in the Pennsylvania House of Repr...
PITTSBURGH — Elections officials say former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum and his wife, Karen, are eligible to vote in suburban Pittsburgh.
Santorum's political foes challe...
