GOP wants to trim spending
HARRISBURG — Public school funding is emerging as a friction point as state budget negotiators work to find common ground on an approximately $...
State wants more options for seniors
HARRISBURG — The state government wants to give a helping hand to nursing homes as they work to revamp their image as final destinati...
He'll spend rest of life in prison
LANCASTER — A teenager who wrote in his journal about having a compulsion to "kill people" was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison afte...
PHILADELPHIA — A teenager was shot in the back just minutes after his high school graduation at a Temple University sports arena.
Khiry Caldwell, an 18-year-old graduate...
READING — Another Pennsylvania county is considering instituting a four-day work week for its employees. This time it's the Berks County Commissioners.
They are consider...
Candymaker will match Mars
HARRISBURG — Faced with competing against a combined Mars-Wrigley, candymaker Hershey said Tuesday it will pour money into marketing its bigge...
HARRISBURG — Gov. Ed Rendell said he will make state operations greener, reducing energy use in state buildings by 10 percent and fuel use by state vehicles by 5 percent...
PITTSBURGH — A radio station suspended a reporter who was caught with a loaded handgun in his briefcase as he entered a courthouse to cover a trial.
KDKA-TV reported Tue...
HARRISBURG — The Republican-controlled Senate approved a $240 million tax-cutting package Monday as a way to help the working poor pay rising bills for food and gas whil...
BEDFORD — A new trial is to begin for a man accused in the murder and kidnapping of a Bedford County woman in April 2000.
Forty-nine-year-old Joseph Clark was tried in J...
