Lawmakers want charter reforms
HARRISBURG — Some lawmakers on Monday called for stronger state regulation of Pennsylvania’s charter and cyber-charter schools, while other...
PITTSBURGH — Traffic is expected to be detoured for months after three bridges closed today for rehabilitation projects. The closures involve the Ambridge-Aliquippa Brid...
HARRISBURG — A federal judge says the insurance carrier for the children’s charity that Jerry Sandusky founded doesn’t have to cover him for acts of abuse.
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HARRISBURG — U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz said Friday she is preparing to set up a state fundraising committee as her first official step toward a likely 2014 campaign for...
He says burdens of job too much
PITTSBURGH — Luke Ravenstahl, Pittsburgh’s youngest mayor, won’t seek re-election after deciding the burdens of the job were too much to b...
GREENSBURG — A Western Pennsylvania jury has sentenced a man to death for his role in the torture-murder of a mentally disabled woman who was held captive in a dingy apa...
HARRISBURG — Democrats on the House budget-writing committee Thursday accused the Corbett administration of not doing enough to prepare for the possibility that Pennsylv...
PITTSBURGH — Suspended state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin and her sister face a May 7 sentencing for their conviction last week on campaign corruption charges,...
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl remained behind closed doors Thursday as his absence from public events amid a re-election campaign fueled speculation abou...
WAYMART, Pa. — Flags have been lowered to half-staff and a public viewing is scheduled for a corrections officer fatally stabbed at a federal prison in northeastern Penn...
