Lucrative contracts at center of cases
HARRISBURG — Federal prosecutors announced charges Thursday against former Pennsylvania Treasurer Barbara Hafer and a businessman i...
Mass killings shape cycle
HARRISBURG — Public safety issues are shaping Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race and forcing Republican incumbent Pat Toomey and his Democratic cha...
Guard, inmate plunge down elevator shaft
WILKES-BARRE — Officials say a corrections officer and an inmate smashed through an elevator door during a scuffle at a Penn...
Incident called 'sad and tragic'
WILKES-BARRE, — A correctional officer and an inmate died following a brief altercation at a Pennsylvania prison, officials said.
It hap...
Man struck by truck on Interstate 70
CHARLEROI — Authorities say an Ohio man who stopped and got out of his car on an interstate was struck and killed by a tractor-t...
SOMERSET, Pa. — The ex-wife of a Western Pennsylvania man authorities said was killed in 2008 is now charged with murder, and her son — who was charged earlier — now say...
6-year-old girl shot in the head
A 6-year-old girl is in critical condition after police say she was shot in the head on a front porch in Pittsburgh.
Police say the...
Newly disclosed allegations bring attention
HARRISBURG — Newly disclosed allegations from men who have accused Jerry Sandusky of sexual abuse raise fresh questions about ...
UNIONTOWN — Authorities say a Western Pennsylvania county commissioner was injured in a shooting at his home.
A Fayette County emergency dispatch supervisor said a male ...
WASHINGTON, Pa. — A man authorities say was targeted but only wounded in a cookout ambush that killed five adults and an unborn child in the Pittsburgh suburbs has been ...
