Funding same but costs rising
DUBOIS — Penn State students face another tuition hike.
Coping with rising costs and stagnant state funding, university trustees Friday vote...
PITTSBURGH — Officials in Pittsburgh said flames from an underground explosion shot up through a metal sidewalk grate, burning a woman who was standing there.
City polic...
HARRISBURG — Gov. Ed Rendell says he's hoping a proposed major expansion of railroad yards in Pennsylvania will ease growing truck traffic on the highways.
The Democrat ...
PITTSBURGH — A Pennsylvania woman has been charged in the suffocation death of her 1-month-old granddaughter.
Pittsburgh police say Elane Springs, 49, accidentally sat o...
Barge hits craft in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — Coast Guard officials say hope is fading for finding two missing tour boat passengers alive a day after the amphibious cra...
PALMYRA — The owner of a pyrotechnics company that set off the display where an accident left 11 people wounded said a malfunctioning firework was to blame.
Kimmel Schae...
Officials issue health warnings
PHILADELPHIA — Heat and humidity draped the Northeast for yet another day today, pushing electric utilities to crank up power and keeping ...
MONROEVILLE — A suspect is in custody after police say shots were fired outside a Western Pennsylvania wave pool.
Police in Allegheny County say a man fired multiple sho...
PALMYRA — A state police fire marshal says nothing criminal or illegal occurred at a central Pennsylvania fireworks display that went awry, injuring 11 people.
State pol...
Cuts scattered, no new taxes
HARRISBURG — A five-hour flurry of votes by Pennsylvania lawmakers on Saturday passed the remaining bills needed to make up a new $28 billio...
