MERTZTOWN, Pa. — An alligator has been returned to its owner after causing quite a stir when it turned up in a nearby homeowner’s pond in eastern Pennsylvania.
Wildlife ...
PITTSBURGH — A city police officer was convicted Tuesday of drunken driving and involuntary manslaughter in an off-duty motorcycle crash that killed his fiancée’s friend...
HARRISBURG — Lawyers say 19 young men have settled with Penn State over claims of abuse by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
The attorneys confirmed the se...
PITTSBURGH — A Shaler man who loved hunting and fishing but shunned people left virtually his entire estate to the state game commission.
Officials with the Game Commiss...
Orie Melvin is appealing her conviction
PITTSBURGH — If disgraced Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin doesn’t have to send out signed pictures of herself ...
Some will say no to checks
HARRISBURG — A growing number of Pennsylvania’s members of Congress are saying they will not take a paycheck while the federal government is sh...
VALLEY FORGE — A marathoner says he was fined $100 for running in Valley Forge National Historical Park during the government shutdown.
John Bell, 56, said he parked his...
PITTSBURGH — William Bodine Jr., director of Pittsburgh’s Frick Art & Historical Center, plans to retire at the end of June.
Board of Trustees chair David Brownlee says ...
Some team up with industry
PITTSBURGH — For years, activists have warned that fracking can have disastrous consequences — ruined water and air, sickened people and animal...
Part-time work, pensions add up
HARRISBURG — Eighty-six retired Pennsylvania judges earned millions of extra dollars combined last year by augmenting their pension checks...
