MOON — A 23-year-old Moon Township father is in jail after police found his three young children home alone, living in squalor and surviving on frozen french fries and M...
Justice Dept. can subpoena papers
PITTSBURGH — The Justice Department can subpoena documents and question officials of Countrywide Financial Corp. under oath to determine...
PITTSBURGH — Defense attorneys for celebrity pathologist Cyril Wecht want a federal judge to halt jury deliberations in Wecht's federal fraud trial until they receive mo...
Bills aim to cut jail time, repeat visits
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's county jails would become less crowded and some state prisoners would qualify for early release unde...
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh's Port Authority is considering a plan that would rid downtown of buses, diverting passengers to a shuttle or a small subway that would bring the...
HARRISBURG — A proposal to require handgun owners to report to police when their weapons are lost or stolen was defeated Tuesday in the Pennsylvania House of Representat...
BELLE VERNON — A woman was charged with endangering her children after she sent them to school with lice, despite being warned that they could not attend class.
Nicole L...
ERIE — A co-defendant in the bizarre collar-bomb death of a pizza deliveryman in an Erie bank robbery says he is mentally incompetent to stand trial.
Kenneth Barnes' law...
Democrats must pick 1 April 22
HARRISBURG — Voters in Pennsylvania rarely elect black and female candidates.
But they'll have to choose one or the other in the April 22 D...
UNIONTOWN — Animal rescue workers and police raided a Fayette County home and found many dogs, along with the carcasses of several other animals.
Authorities said the de...
