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...
PITTSBURGH — A rifle-wielding man killed in a shoot-out with Pittsburgh police on a busy highway has been identified as a suspected drug dealer with a history of other r...
Students hurt in school attack
GREENSBURG — One of 20 students stabbed by a high school classmate testified that the wound to his torso was so severe teachers couldn’t a...
HARRISBURG — A bill to put more restrictions on Pennsylvania strip clubs and institute a state registry for strippers and others in the adult entertainment industry won’...
PITTSBURGH — A major pretrial hearing is scheduled in the case of a 17-year-old boy charged as an adult with stabbing 20 fellow students and a security guard at his subu...
Ex-lawmakers freed from jail
HARRISBURG — As Pennsylvania lawmakers brace for the annual clash over how to spend billions of taxpayer dollars, the final chapter in a star...
