PHILADELPHIA — Democratic Mayor Michael Nutter cruised to a second term Tuesday, easily defeating little-known Republican challenger Karen Brown in a city where voters h...
ERIE — Applications are being taken for 85 hunters in the annual deer hunt at Presque Isle State Park. The hunt is scheduled for Dec. 7 through 9.
Hunters will be able t...
HARRISBURG — A once-powerful former Pennsylvania Republican lawmaker was convicted Tuesday in a corruption case focusing on the illegal use of millions of taxpayer dolla...
CAMP HILL — Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett on Wednesday signed into law a prohibition on texting while driving, although it will be four months before it takes effect.
“T...
PETERS TWP — By a margin of more than four-to-one, voters in an affluent Pittsburgh suburb say natural gas drilling can go on in their township.
In Tuesday’s general ele...
NEW CASTLE — The Pennsylvania Harness Racing Commission has granted a license for a long-delayed $400 million racetrack and casino.
Tuesday’s decision means American Har...
PITTSBURGH — Democrat Rich Fitzgerald outpaced Republican D. Raja Tuesday to become the elected county executive in Allegheny County.
With 82 percent of the precincts re...
Students rally for coach
STATE COLLEGE — Joe Paterno has overshadowed everyone and everything at Penn State for nearly half a century.
Now, support for keeping the Hall ...
PITTSBURGH — A Western Pennsylvania man is in custody after police say he randomly sent hundreds of sexually explicit text messages to various phone numbers, including s...
NEW CASTLE — A youth football coach and his wife have been charged with stealing more than $3,300 from program.
The state Attorney General says the investigation began w...
