HARRISBURG — Proposed licensing standards for assisted living residences are being criticized by consumer advocates and industry groups.
A panel of state lawmakers heard...
PITTSBURGH — The high school athletic district that covers much of southwestern Pennsylvania wants its statewide parent organization to do criminal background checks on ...
Diocese could split over gay debate
NEW YORK — Episcopal Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh, whose diocese is moving toward splitting from the national church, was ousted...
NEW CASTLE — A hazardous waste plant fire has been extinguished and an evacuation order lifted.
Officials say the fire at Castle Environmental in New Castle was caused b...
LINESVILLE — State conservation officials are delaying a ban on an odd "family tradition" in northwestern Pennsylvania: feeding bread to the carp at Pymatuning State Par...
PITTSBURGH — A University of Pittsburgh debate coach is limiting her contact with the team and issued an apology for cursing at another coach who dropped his pants while...
Readmissions also down
HARRISBURG — The in-hospital death rate for heart-bypass surgery patients in Pennsylvania declined in 2006 to its lowest level in more than a decad...
Legislation looks to ease overcrowding
HARRISBURG — Legislation designed to move thousands of nonviolent criminals out of state prisons more quickly and rein in booming c...
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania and other states are getting emergency federal aid to help poor people heat their homes this winter, but Gov. Ed Rendell says it's too early to...
PHILADELPHIA — Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev is in Philadelphia to receive honors tonight even as U.S.-Russian relations hit a cool spot.
Former President Ge...
