PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium is removing an observation deck from which a 2-year-old boy fell before he was fatally mauled by wild African dogs in an exhib...
Lawyer submits letter to board
HARRISBURG — Jerry Sandusky has appealed a decision to revoke his $59,000-a-year pension, arguing the law did not support the action by the...
Lawmakers say it's a giveaway
HARRISBURG — Democratic lawmakers are taking aim at GOP Gov. Tom Corbett administration’s move to privatize the Pennsylvania Lottery’s manag...
HERSHEY — An 11th-grade English teacher from northwestern Pennsylvania is the state’s 2013 Teacher of the Year.
Ryan Devlin of Brockway Area Junior-Senior High School in...
CHARLEROI — Police say “finders keepers” doesn't apply to cash found in your boss' house.
Four members of a construction crew face charges after police say they took $60...
He is charged with 1st-degree murder
COUDERSPORT, Pa. — An elementary school music teacher walked into a church in the middle of Sunday services and shot and killed his e...
Gas station tax could mean $1B for road repairs
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration has joined talks on transportation funding proposals and is showing interes...
PITTSBURGH — A suspended guidance counselor at Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh has been jailed on charges she sold heroin from her home.
Police in Forest Hill...
SCRANTON — Robert Mellow, a former leader of Pennsylvania’s Senate Democrats, was sentenced Friday to 16 months in prison on public corruption charges.
U.S. District Jud...
PITTSBURGH — The county health department says a patient has died of Legionnaire's disease at one of Pittsburgh's Veterans Affairs hospitals.
Dr. Ron Voorhees, acting di...
