Volunteer Christian Petrilli plants a Red Spruce sapling Friday on the grounds where Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville. Over 200 volunteers were on hand to help the Nat...
HARRISBURG — Some Republican lawmakers who oppose abortion rights registered “serious concerns” Friday over Gov. Tom Wolf’s nomination of Pedro Cortes as secretary of st...
U.S. Attorney Hickton selected
PITTSBURGH — The top federal prosecutor in Pittsburgh has been picked to co-chair a national Heroin Task Force as the city and its suburbs ...
HARRISBURG — Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski is expected to announce today that he will run to challenge U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey’s re-election bid, creating the potential for ...
High Court justice blocks ruling
PITTSBURGH — A Supreme Court justice is blocking an appeals court’s ruling that would have forced two Western Pennsylvania Catholic dioc...
Woman blames parrot for car crash
UNIONTOWN — State police say a woman blames her coffee-drinking pet parrot for distracting her moments before she crashed her car into ...
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police are warning addicts after paramedics responded to five heroin overdoses in five hours, including one fatality — and say three appear to be...
Penalties likely to be expanded
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania state senators are advancing a bill to expand penalties for people who falsely represent their military record ...
CANONSBURG — A Florida truck driver has been jailed for four days in Pennsylvania for not being able to pay a portion of the $17,000 fine he got for driving an overweigh...
PITTSBURGH — A city police SWAT team was unable to find a gunman suspected of firing shots in the direction of two officers on routine patrol in Homewood, one of the cit...
