Highlights of Gov. Tom Corbett’s $27.3 billion state spending plan for the year that starts July 1:
THE BIG PICTURE
• An overall decrease in spending of about 3 perc...
LEECHBURG — A youth leader with a Loyal Order of Moose lodge is charged with endangering the welfare of children for allegedly smoking marijuana with high school student...
Pa. downriver water tested
HARRISBURG — Tests of water in Pennsylvania downriver from treatment plants that handle wastewater from natural gas drilling raised no red flag...
PHILADELPHIA — A mate piloting a tugboat involved in a deadly collision of a tourist boat and a barge last summer was consumed by a family emergency and on his cell phon...
SCRANTON — A former Pennsylvania juvenile court judge convicted in a $1 million kickback scheme involving privately owned juvenile detention centers wants his conviction...
PITTSBURGH — Two cardiologists at a Western Pennsylvania hospital implanted coronary stents in at least 141 patients who might not have needed them last year, a Pittsbur...
PITTSBURGH — A Western Pennsylvania panel has declined to call the former home of the Pittsburgh Penguins a historic structure, dealing a blow to those who hope to prese...
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police may refuse to do off-duty security details for St. Patrick's Day. Police union members are to vote Thursday on a possible work stoppage on...
ERIE — A woman was sentenced Monday to spend the rest of her life in prison for a bank robbery plot in which a pizza delivery driver was killed by a bomb locked around h...
PITTSBURGH — State Sen. Jane Orie took the witness stand and testified Monday in her own defense during her trial on political corruption charges.
She answered questions...
