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U.S. Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., John Fetterman, D-Pa., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, sent a letter Thursday, July 6 in support of a proposed policy that would hold railroads ac...
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration had been planning to sue two “ghost gun” manufacturers for weeks before Monday’s deadly mass shooting in Kin...
PHILADELPHIA — A father who was preparing to walk his eldest daughter down the aisle. An aspiring actor who appeared as an extra in the “Creed” movie franchise. A teenage...
HARRISBURG — Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro called on the Republican-controlled Senate on Thursday to return to the Pennsylvania Capitol to finalize a state spending plan, ...
HARRISBURG — Thousands of Pennsylvania homeowners who have been waiting months for help from a troubled state mortgage relief program are stuck in limbo — again.
Their si...
PITTSBURGH — The Beyoncé Renaissance Tour stop scheduled for Aug. 3 at Acrisure Stadium has been canceled.
According to a social media post from Acrisure, the date was re...
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s state budget is late, and so far there’s no deal in sight.
Talks between Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro, the Republican-controlled state Senate,...
PITTSBURGH — The man who gunned down 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue does not have a psychiatric or neurological disorder, and he was capable of forming the intent to...
MANHEIM, Pa. — An explosion at a building housing public works equipment in a Pennsylvania township destroyed the structure and heavily damaged some nearby homes, but no ...
