GREENSBURG — A judge has approved moving a 16-year-old boy charged in a high school stabbing rampage to a Pittsburgh-area psychiatric hospital indefinitely after three e...
Kane identifies state officials
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Corbett has asked for records of interoffice e-mails containing pornography that were apparently exchanged among for...
Drug scarcity is one factor
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Corbett’s decision to indefinitely delay the execution of a convicted murderer illustrated some of the practical and leg...
Absentee votes changed election
PITTSBURGH — The since-retired chief of a western Pennsylvania township has pleaded guilty to violating federal election laws by solicitin...
WILKES-BARRE — A former Pennsylvania high school teacher has been sentenced to nine to 23 months in prison after pleading guilty to sexual misconduct with students.
Laur...
8 ex-workers named in office probe
HARRISBURG — Eight former employees of the state attorney general’s office sent or received interoffice e-mails containing pornography,...
LORETTO — Moooove over, Ben Roethlisberger. There's a new No. 7 in Western Pennsylvania.
The folks at Vale Wood Farms in Loretto, about 70 miles east of Pittsburgh, have...
PITTSBURGH — A woman on death row for starving her 7-year-old daughter will get a new sentencing hearing, the state’s highest court ruled, saying her trial attorney didn...
CLUNE, Pa. — Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a stray bullet grazed the head of a 5-day-old infant in what officials are calling a hunting accident.
Indiana Count...
Mistake aids investigation
PIKE TOWNSHIP, Pa. — It may have been Eric Frein's most glaring misstep so far: Hidden deep in the woods of the Poconos, the man accused of kil...
