Medicaid expansion spreading
HARRISBURG — Pressure on Gov. Tom Corbett grew Tuesday to accept the federal government’s offer to fund the lion’s share of a massive Medicai...
GIBSONIA — The family of a Western Pennsylvania man who’s accused of stabbing his elderly grandmother to death during breakfast says they’re speaking out about his menta...
STATE COLLEGE — Six students are facing a preliminary hearing on charges they supplied alcohol at a party where a Penn State cheerleader was seriously injured after fall...
Group addresses school trustees
STATE COLLEGE — Penn State’s Board of Trustees should add academic representatives to the school’s governing body, a faculty group said Mo...
HARRISBURG — A Republican leader in the Pennsylvania Legislature has renewed his politically charged effort to end the state’s winner-take-all method of allocating its E...
ALTOONA — The Altoona Regional Health System said it is moving forward with a proposed affiliation with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Officials said Monda...
Fatal outbreak at VA facility
PITTSBURGH — The strain of bacteria that caused a fatal outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in a Veterans Affairs hospital in Western Pennsylv...
Education, defense to be biggest losers
Education and defense would be among the biggest losers in Pennsylvania under automatic cuts to the federal budget set to take hol...
PITTSBURGH — Authorities in Western Pennsylvania say a man has been shot to death just a few weeks after his brother also was killed.
Police say officers responding to a...
PHILADELPHIA — Gov. Tom Corbett’s son-in-law’s job as a Philadelphia police officer is in jeopardy over allegations of misconduct. A police spokesman said Gerold Gibson ...
