Some date to the Revolution
SANDY LAKE — State police in northwestern Pennsylvania report finding more than two dozen grave markers of fallen veterans, some dating back t...
Large legislature may need cutting
HARRISBURG — Jerry Sterner spent two years as foreman of a grand jury that met in secret to investigate whether the staff and resources...
MCKEES ROCKS — The Allegheny County fire marshal is investigating a rooftop blaze at a high school undergoing renovation near Pittsburgh.
Firefighters say the flames at ...
STATE COLLEGE — Closing Penn State branch campuses to help address a potential 50 percent cut in state funding would strike a devastating blow to communities integrally ...
Group to redraw district borders
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday appointed Stephen J. McEwen Jr., a senior judge on the Superior Court, to chair th...
Gov. stays true to his promise
HERSHEY — Gov. Tom Corbett told a crowd of local-government officials Monday that he would oppose a new state tax on natural gas extraction...
PULASKI, Pa. — An Ohio woman’s DUI charge was tossed out by a Pennsylvania judge who says the woman was too old to submit to a field sobriety test she failed after being...
HARRISBURG — The chancellor of Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities defended raises for about 1,500 nonunion administrators, including himself, even as state offic...
In-home care key to dispute
PHILADELPHIA — Disabled Pennsylvanians trying to stay in their homes sued state welfare officials Monday over alleged delays with their appeal...
PITTSBURGH — A man charged with gunning down three Pittsburgh police officers called to a domestic disturbance call at his mother’s home will not pursue an insanity defe...
