GOP says health repeal stops tax
WASHINGTON — House Republicans, stung by the Supreme Court decision upholding President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, are seizing ...
PHILADELPHIA — A suburban Philadelphia coroner is blaming two more deaths on last week’s heat wave.
Montgomery County Coroner Dr. Walter Hofman says two women died as a ...
They ask for life in prison
PITTSBURGH — A Western Pennsylvania man’s argument he was engaged in a “cat and mouse” game when he extorted sexually explicit cell phone imag...
All 14 state schools have 3% increase
HARRISBURG — Students at Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities, including Slippery Rock University, will pay about 3 percent mo...
STATE COLLEGE — Penn State received more than $208 million in donations last fiscal year, the second-highest total in university history despite the upheaval after the a...
BELLEFONTE — Lawyers for Penn State and its former president Graham Spanier are headed to court next month to discuss whether his lawsuit seeking access to old work e-ma...
Gas drilling rig closed temporarily
CLEARFIELD — Protesters demonstrating against hydraulic fracturing at a state forest led to a new gas drilling rig temporarily being s...
Corbett rejects call by groups
PHILADELPHIA — Six organizations are calling on Gov. Tom Corbett to ask state lawmakers to delay implementation of Pennsylvania’s new voter...
7 fishermen died on Mass. boat
BOSTON — A toolshed at a Slippery Rock campground was an unlikely place to dig up remembrances of a decades-old shipwreck that killed seven...
HARRISBURG — The state government is flouting a federal law that requires workers at public assistance offices to distribute voter registration applications to clients, ...