Bill sent back to Pa. Senate
HARRISBURG — A proposal to raise millions in phone bill fees to fund 911 centers passed the Pennsylvania House on Wednesday for the second ti...
Education company will cut 300 jobs
PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh-based company that runs for-profit colleges and trade schools is cutting 300 jobs nationwide, including 70 ...
JEANNETTE — If it’s the thought that counts, this one was way better late than never.
That’s because a scratch-off lottery ticket bought as a last-minute Father’s Day gi...
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s Senate Democrats are backing a plan to cut school property tax bills in exchange for higher state taxes on income, retail sales and tobacco p...
PITTSBURGH — A Pennsylvania high school teacher wants charges that he wrongly had sex with an 18-year-old student dismissed because of her age.
The attorney for 38-year-...
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would allow public schools to factor in performance when laying off teachers and to ...
Fiscal year end just days away
HARRISBURG — The tension of budget season spilled over Tuesday into heated exchanges at back-to-back rallies at the Pennsylvania Capitol on...
Liquor system sale not issue
HARRISBURG — A top Pennsylvania House Republican softened the GOP’s stance Tuesday on Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s opposition to privatizing th...
HARRISBURG — Republicans on a House panel advanced two bills Tuesday that would require proposed contract agreements for public employees and an analysis of their cost t...
Greenert will speak at Shippensburg
SHIPPENSBURG — Butler native Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations for the U.S. Navy, will speak Saturday in central Pennsylva...