WASHINGTON — Month after month, Rep. Joe Sestak spoke at campaign events with only a handful of attendees. Poll after poll showed him badly trailing Sen. Arlen Specter.
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PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh man has been convicted of third-degree murder in the stabbing death of his son.
Fifty-nine-year-old Gordon McGowan Sr. faces 20 to 40 years in ...
PHILADELPHIA — A state Supreme Court justice, shortly after she was sworn in, turned over more than $30,000 left in her campaign coffers to her sister's senatorial campa...
House OKs bill that would require study
HARRISBURG — Gov. Ed Rendell said Tuesday he would sign a bill calling for a temporary halt in new leasing of state forest lands f...
ALIQUIPPA — A security guard at a western Pennsylvania elementary school has been suspended after a student's mother reported that he paddled her son.
Aliquippa School D...
NEW WILMINGTON — A wood stove fire inside an Amish family's home apparently started a fire that killed a mother and her two young daughters, authorities said.
Katie Kurt...
WEST MIDDLESEX — An 18-month-old baby had to be hospitalized after a gun accidentally discharged when he picked up the bag the revolver was in.
The child was shot Saturd...
Dems may lose 4-decade grip
JOHNSTOWN — In what was the late U.S. Rep. John Murtha's Western Pennsylvania district — reachable through John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria Count...
GREENSBURG — The National Transportation Safety Board says a Pittsburgh pilot was incapacitated from heart problems when he died in a small plane crash in 2008.
The NTSB...
LOWBER — Police say a convicted murderer who rescued his baby daughter from their burning home was arrested on other charges while visiting the girl at an Ohio hospital....
