WASHINGTON — More people applied for unemployment benefits last week, but not enough to reverse a downward trend that suggests employers will accelerate hiring in the co...
DEP official: Water supplies protected
Pennsylvania’s top environmental enforcement official said Tuesday that he is confident that wastewater discharged into rivers and ...
Smith elected House speaker
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania General Assembly launched its new legislative session Tuesday by swearing in new and returning members and elect...
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania says Arlen Specter, who wrapped up 30 years as a U.S. senator, will teach at its law school this fall on the relationship b...
HARRISBURG — The head of the Pennsylvania Farm Show complex says he’s a fan of all things green — including green power and the money it saves.
Executive director Patric...
PITTSBURGH — A 7-month-old girl was burned by drain cleaner that soaked her diaper while she was at a Pittsburgh-area day care, and state welfare officials were investig...
PITTSBURGH — A Western Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison in the death of a man who was shot outside an after-hours club during a bachelor p...
Dec. totals up 15.5% from '09
PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania collected 8.4 percent more revenue than expected last month, but outgoing Gov. Ed Rendell said his Republican su...
Woman kept twin, husband in house
WYALUSING, Pa. — It looks like Jean Stevens will be reunited with the two people she loved so much that she wanted them to keep her comp...
SOUTHVIEW — An autopsy was pending on a woman found dead inside her living room during a modular home fire in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Washington County Coroner Tim Wa...
