Famed politician was 89 years old
PHILADELPHIA — Richard Schultz Schweiker, 89, a political novice who rose from the unlikely incubator of Norristown to become a U.S. con...
KITTANNING — A woman killed last week following the escape of a prison inmate now charged in her death has been laid to rest.
More than 100 people gathered Monday at a K...
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday nominated a retired state police major to lead the agency two months after the Senate scuttled his first choice for the commissioner...
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh City Council on Monday approved an ordinance requiring employers in the city to provide paid sick leave to employees in the face of opposition fr...
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania may not have a state budget, but tax revenues are pouring into the state treasury by the billions.
The Revenue Department reported Monday that ...
ERIE — Michael Victor is taking over as president of Mercyhurst University.
The private Catholic school in Erie announced in May that Victor would replace Thomas Gamble,...
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SHARON — Authorities say a woman has been charged with first- and third-degree murder in a shooting that killed h...
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe has accused a Murrysville doctor of illegally killing a lion in April, as it seeks to extradite a Minnesota dentist who killed a well-known l...
HARRISBURG — Philadelphia judge Paul Panepinto says he’s submitted more than 28,000 signatures to the Pennsylvania Department of State in an effort to become the first i...
PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah paid off an illegal $1 million campaign loan with federal grants and charitable donations, funneled campaign funds toward his son’s...
