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SCRANTON — President Joe Biden returned to his working-class childhood hometown of Scranton on Tuesday to call for higher taxes on the rich and cast Donald Trump as an ou...
April 16, 2024 Pennsylvania News
A barge operator believes it has found a sunken barge in the Ohio River near Pittsburgh, one of 26 that broke loose and floated away during weekend flooding, company offi...
April 16, 2024 Pennsylvania News
Three state agencies gathered at Soldiers Grove in Harrisburg on Monday, April 15 to observe the start of National Work Zone Awareness Week, which runs from April 15 thro...
April 16, 2024 Pennsylvania News
WILLIAMSPORT. Pa. — The wife of a former Harvard Medical School morgue manager has pleaded guilty to a federal charge after investigators said she shipped stolen human bo...
April 15, 2024 Pennsylvania News
A stretch of the Ohio River near Pittsburgh remains closed to maritime traffic as crews equipped with sonar look for a barge believed to have sunk over the weekend. The b...
April 15, 2024 Pennsylvania News
READING — Conjoined twins Lori and George Schappell, who pursued separate careers, interests and relationships during lives that defied medical expectations, died this mo...
April 15, 2024 Pennsylvania News
Even before he started Echo Pines Equine, Steve Gilliland was acutely aware of the power of the bond between a horse and a human. Before retirement, Gilliland spent 38 ye...
April 15, 2024 Pennsylvania News
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York towns and villages that have post-Prohibition bans on alcohol sales would be forced to lift such restrictions under a bill moving through the Legi...
April 15, 2024 Business
HANOVER TOWNSHIP — The pilot of an experimental aircraft fell out of the plane and hit the tail, causing the plane to crash in northeastern Pennsylvania in 2022, killing ...
April 15, 2024 Pennsylvania News
SCHNECKSVILLE — Former President Donald Trump on Saturday lit into New York prosecutors and the criminal hush money case they brought against him during his last rally b...
April 15, 2024 Pennsylvania News
WASHINGTON — Two steel-state Democrats in tough reelection fights are urging President Joe Biden to do more to stop the proposed acquisition of United States Steel Corp. ...
April 15, 2024 Business
PITTSBURGH — Flash flooding caused by relentless heavy rains that soaked western Pennsylvania spurred numerous rescues and evacuations in the region, but no injuries were...
April 12, 2024 Pennsylvania News
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is returning to Pennsylvania next week, including a stop in the Pittsburgh area, the White House said Friday. Biden first is to travel to...
April 12, 2024 Pennsylvania News
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is headed to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania on Tuesday to talk about who he believes should be paying more in taxes (billionaires...
April 12, 2024 Pennsylvania News
HARRISBURG — Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania on Wednesday rolled out a counterproposal to Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s plan to boost college enrollment in Pennsylv...
April 12, 2024 Pennsylvania News
HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania state agency received thousands of applications Thursday for the state's first-ever student-teacher stipends, many times more than the availab...
April 11, 2024 Pennsylvania News
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania state Senate on Tuesday approved legislation aimed at helping the nation’s No. 2 natural gas-producing state attract carbon capture projects...
April 11, 2024 Pennsylvania News
Bakerstown United Methodist Church, 5760 Route 8, Gibsonia, is holding a “Junque Sale” from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 27. Proceeds from this event will benefit the Bakerstow...
April 11, 2024 Pennsylvania News
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey said in a virtual conference that he supports legislation that would keep a U.S. Department of Energy rule change from potentially shutting down a com...
April 10, 2024 Local News
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania consumers would be notified when content has been generated by artificial intelligence, and defendants couldn’t argue that child sexual abuse ma...
April 10, 2024 Pennsylvania News
PHILADELPHIA — A joyful celebration of the end of Ramadan devolved into panic Wednesday in Philadelphia after rival groups exchanged gunfire, leaving at least three peopl...
April 10, 2024 Pennsylvania News
Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement related to a fiery train derailment in February 2023 in eastern Ohio. The company sa...
April 09, 2024 Pennsylvania News
With the start of spring comes the start of the hatching season for the spotted lanternfly, an invasive species of insect which has the majority of Pennsylvania on high a...
April 07, 2024 Agriculture
PHILADELPHIA — Three long-retired Philadelphia police detectives must stand trial, accused of lying under oath at the 2016 retrial of a man the jury exonerated in a 1991 ...
April 05, 2024 Pennsylvania News
CHESTER, Pa. — A man shot by police in Delaware allegedly stole an officer's cruiser and led authorities on a chase that ended when he crashed the vehicle in neighboring ...
April 05, 2024 National News
PHILADELPHIA — Former President Donald Trump is slated to be back in Pennsylvania for a fundraiser in Bucks County on April 13 — just 10 days before the state’s primary. ...
April 05, 2024 National News
PHILADELPHIA —Vice President Kamala Harris will be back in Philadelphia Monday, roughly two weeks before the Pennsylvania primary. Harris will highlight President Joe Bid...
April 05, 2024 Pennsylvania News
Easter may have already passed, but there is still one more chance to hunt for Easter eggs. After a week’s postponement due to unfavorable weather, Keystone Safari in Gr...
April 04, 2024 Pennsylvania News
FALLSINGTON, Pa. — A man charged in the fatal shooting of three family members in suburban Philadelphia and related carjacking and weapons counts in New Jersey has been t...
April 03, 2024 Pennsylvania News
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April 03, 2024 Pennsylvania News
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