STATE COLLEGE — Penn State trustees have approved a budget plan that seeks a 5 percent boost in state funding, a request that school president Graham Spanier called a “m...
WASHINGTON — Officials in Western Pennsylvania say a school bus with 30 high school students aboard rolled over, but no serious injuries are being reported.
A Pittsburgh...
Archdiocese troubled by abuse cases
PHILADELPHIA — Archbishop Charles Chaput took the helm of the troubled Roman Catholic church in Philadelphia on Thursday by telling fo...
PITTSBURGH — Police say a shooting killed one man and injured another in Pittsburgh early Thursday morning.
The shooting happened at about 1:25 a.m.
Police say Timothy H...
Northeast Pa. is hard hit
WILKES-BARRE — Stretches of the swollen Susquehanna River in New York and Pennsylvania were receding this morning after days of rainfall from wh...
Several hundred activists and homeowners protest Wednesday against hydraulic gas drilling, or “fracking,” outside the Philadelphia Convention Center where an industry co...
PITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon University has received a huge pledge to expand its programs.
The $265 million gift from William S. Dietrich II is one of the largest in rec...
SHANKSVILLE — Former President George W. Bush will speak at this week’s dedication of the Flight 93 National Memorial.
The National Park Service and National Park Founda...
PITTSBURGH — Police say one man is dead and at least one other person is injured after a knife attack in Pittsburgh.
Investigators say two people are in custody in the s...
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania has more than double the national average rate of structurally deficient bridges, but they aren’t always the older ones.
In fact, more than 40 ...
