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Altoona Area School District Superintendent Dennis Murray apparently didn’t do anything wrong in connection with pay ra...
Pennsylvania’s six veterans homes, operated by the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, are celebrating the 22n...
Governor Tom Corbett today reminded Pennsylvanians that it only takes 30 seconds to become an organ or tissue donor, but that...
The Philadelphia law firm hired to investigate unapproved pay raises at the Altoona Area School District says Superintendent ...
A report by a Philadelphia law firm that Altoona School District Superintendent Dr. Dennis Murray gave illegal pay raises to ...
Latino and community activists have delivered two binders of resumes to Gov. Tom Corbett's Philadelphia office to protest...
Many Pennsylvania state workers are outraged after learning that a man from a Philadelphia suburb has requested information a...
It's hardly a boom, but the population of six major Pennsylvania cities increased modestly between 2010 and 2012, accordi...
Awebsite affiliated with a Philadelphia's newspaper is drawing criticism for its decision to publish columns by Governor ...
A group that aired a TV ad critical of Republican Governor Tom Corbett is the impetus for a planned hearing before the House ...
Governor Tom Corbett's office says his comments about a lack of Latinos on his staff were taken out of context to discred...
Governor Tom Corbett on Wednesday announced the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and The New York Public Library have entered a h...
Governor Tom Corbett says he'll name a central Pennsylvania public school superintendent as his new education secretary, ...
The sale of Valley View Nursing Home is set to close at the end of the month.Commissioner Terry Tomassetti said Tuesday that ...
An Philadelphia abortion doctor was convicted Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three b...
Governor Tom Corbett and state Attorney General Kathleen Kane praised the bravery of police officers at a ceremony honoring t...
Three men from Philadelphia are facing charges after an incident Sunday afternoon in Altoona.City police say that around 2:30...
Don’t let choosing the wrong limo company be a bump in the road for your wedding or prom.The Pennsylvania Public Utilit...
A jury finished another day of deliberations Thursday in the murder trial of a Philadelphia abortion doctor without reaching ...
Blair County officials are extending their deal with Affinity Healthcare Management until the new owners take control of Vall...
A Pennsylvania congressman has unveiled new airline safety legislation that would require planes to have secondary barriers p...
A jury in Philadelphia is set to start weighing murder charges against a veteran abortion provider charged with killing four ...
The American Lung Association says that air quality in parts of Pennsylvania is getting better, but there's still plenty ...
41 year old Karnamaya Mongar is the subject of one of eight murder counts in the ongoing Philadelphia trial of Dr. Kermit Gos...
The murder trial of a Philadelphia abortion provider enters its fifth week today.Prosecutors will continue to call witnesses ...
Valley View Nursing Home officially has a new owner.County leaders voted 2-1 Thursday to approve the documents selling the ho...
The Blair County Commissioners will meet Thursday in a special meeting to formally vote on the legal documents associated wit...
U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz is kicking off her 2014 campaign for the Democratic nomination for Pennsylvania governor.The 64-ye...
Millionaire business executive Tom Knox says he won't run for Pennsylvania governor.In recent weeks, other Democrats have...
Altoona Area School District superintendent Dr. Dennis Murray has been placed on paid administrative leave.A majority of scho...
A hearing has been scheduled to hear arguments about delaying the lawsuit filed by the victim who testified that Jerry Sandus...
The Blair County Commissioners have voted to sell Valley View Nursing Home.Reliant Senior Care of Philadelphia submitted the ...
How healthy you are is strongly linked to where in Pennsylvania you live, according to the results of a new county-by-county ...
Pennsylvania's acting secretary of the Department of Public Welfare says the state can't afford a legislative proposa...
Three former Pennsylvania governors renewed a call to state lawmakers to allow voters to decide whether appellate court judge...
More than two dozen alleged drug suspects were taken into custody Thursday during a major drug sweep throughout Huntingdon Co...
The number of eligible people who were purged from Pennsylvania's Medicaid rolls amid Gov. Tom Corbett's administrati...
Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz says she'll set up a state fundraising committee as the first step toward a likely 2014 ca...
Advocacy groups met with Governor Tom Corbett in Philadelphia on Thursday to announce his 2013-14 budget proposal to increase...
Pennsylvania's new attorney general wound up in the middle of a discussion about gun control Thursday at what was suppose...
If you think gas prices are high enough already – brace yourself for even steeper increases.AAA says Pennsylvania is ex...
Gov. Tom Corbett’s son-in-law, a narcotics officer in Philadelphia, is under investigation by the FBI.The Philadelphia ...
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey says a pilot program designed to prevent criminals from becoming managers of a person's Social Securi...
A young man who testified at a child sex abuse trial last summer that former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandus...
Pennsylvania gambling regulators say gross revenue from table games at the state's 11 casinos was up 3.4% last month comp...
Republican Rep. Mike Fleck told The Daily News of Huntingdon County that his personal journey has been a long and difficult p...
A Philadelphia man was arrested Wednesday in Altoona on drug charges.Altoona police got a tip that 25 year old Craig "Pl...
John Hanger is about to become the first person to announce his candidacy for governor in 2014.The former Pennsylvania enviro...
Following the Democratic sweep at the top of Pennsylvania's ballot this past election three prospective candidates are al...
Six Pennsylvania judges are suing over the state's mandatory retirement age of 70 for judges.The judges filed the legal c...
After a presidential campaign distinguished more by sporadic TV commercials than candidate visits to the state, Pennsylvania ...
Governor Tom Corbett has ordered state flags be flown at half-staff to honor former Sen. Arlen Specter, who died Sunday at th...
The 82-year-old Specter passed away Sunday at his home in Pennsylvania after a lengthy battle with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.Spec...
As part of the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s efforts to highlight its ongoing habitat improvement initiatives, the pub...
Pennsylvania voters claiming to have been disenfranchised by a new voter identification law testified Thursday before the jud...
As a result of the statewide investigation of adults making changes to students’ answer sheets on the Pennsylvania Syst...
Protesters representing a number of causes repeatedly interrupted Gov. Tom Corbett during a town hall meeting in Philadelphia...
The VoterID law and the Legislative Redistricing plan will be the top discusstions for the State Supreme Court's session ...
The VoterID law and the Legislative Redistricing plan will be the top discusstions for the Stae Supreme Court's session t...
Preliminary hearings are scheduled for Wednesday for two men caught up in a drug bust late last week in Altoona.Brock Bantum ...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next month in its Philadelphia courtroom on 13 appeals to the new map...
Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein and her running mate have been arrested at a sit-in at a Philadelphia bank over h...
An accused cocaine dealer who has been on the run for more than a year is now in custody.Altoona Police say 31-year-old Olive...
Experts on sexual abuse lawsuits say Penn State University could face years of litigation over Jerry Sandusky's abuse of ...
Officials say the scorching heat wave that pushed temperatures into triple digits claimed the lives of three more elderly peo...
A bill to expand the use of red light cameras to catch traffic violators in Pennsylvania is on its way to the governor's ...
Acting on a tip they received alerting them to a stolen car in Altoona, city police found the vehicle on the 3000 block of Br...
Opponents of an attempted crackdown on illegal immigrants in Pennsylvania say a new Supreme Court ruling bolsters their case....
State gaming regulators say gross slots revenue at Pennsylvania's 11 casinos was up 3.4-percent last month compared to Ma...
A state panel formulating a new framework for higher education in Pennsylvania will hear from more than a dozen stakeholders ...
Thousands of people in Pennsylvania could die by the end of the century as a direct result of summer heat driven to extremes ...
More than two dozen protestors gathered on the steps of the Blair County Courthouse Wednesday to protest Governor Tom Corbett...
Saying the future of public schools in Pennsylvania is at stake, thousands of protesters are expected in Philadelphia, Pittsb...
Wanting to set the record straight, the Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania says it wasn’t money from Philadelphia that h...
President Barack Obama's support for gay marriage may become an issue for voters to sort through in Pennsylvania, a vote-...
5 incumbent PA State Lawmakers Lose Primaries Veteran Altoona State Representative Rick Geist wasn’t the only Pennsylva...
A congressman, the Philadelphia mayor and at least three state lawmakers are pledging to live on $35 worth of food for th...
Governor Tom Corbett says Pennsylvanians upset over rising school taxes should demand explanations from their local school bo...
Mayors of some Pennsylvania cities say a bill backed by gun-rights advocates is an attempt to bully them into repealing ordin...
Four of the nine Republicans recently sentenced in a public-corruption case were forced to forfeit state pensions besides ser...
Former Pennsylvania House Speaker John Perzel must spend at least 2½ years in prison for his role in a scheme to use p...
The remaining Republicans convicted in Pennsylvania's government corruption case are about to learn how much jail time, i...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett says he wishes former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno had done more after telling uni...
The Republican floor leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives wants a vote next week on new maps for the state'...
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is critical of a bid involving his predecessor for control of Philadelphia's two major news...
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is critical of a bid involving his predecessor for control of Philadelphia's two major news...
Governor Tom Corbett's budget proposals to cut and consolidate welfare programs are getting mixed reviews from advocates ...
A federal judge is mulling challenges to the use of Pennsylvania's 2001 legislative district maps in this year's elec...
The Republican speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is asking a federal judge to rule that the legislative di...
Lawyers are poised to make opening arguments in the corruption trial of former longtime Pennsylvania House floor leader Bill ...
Penn State President Rodney Erickson says it "grieves" him when people refer to "the Penn State scandal" ...
Pennsylvania's Democratic and Republican state committees are preparing to vote on candidate endorsements that could play a c...
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court has at least four appeals to consider on the state legislative redistricting plan.Wednesday is t...
Penn State says three town hall meetings this week with alumni that feature university president Rodney Erickson are at full ...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett is ordering a pay freeze for top state employees, including himself. Corbett spokesman Kevi...
Penn State Alumni will have a chance to ask questions and raise concerns about the university in person at three town hall-st...
A second man claiming he was sexually abused by former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky has begun legal proceedings a...
New District Judge Assigned for Sandusky Hearing (AP)A new judge is being assigned to handle Jerry Sandusky's preliminary hea...
A long-powerful Pennsylvania senator was re-sentenced Thursday to 61 months in prison in a sprawling corruption case, just ab...
The chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court says a lawyer tasked with setting up a deal to build a new Family Court b...
State senators have begun debate on a major bill to create more opportunities for Pennsylvania public school children to atte...
A Philadelphia woman is facing charges after State Police say she smuggled marijuana into the State Correctional Institution ...
Pennsylvanians are nearly split in their presidential campaign donations between President Barack Obama and the field of pote...
Former U.S. Senator Arlen Specter blames the tea party for removing moderates from the Republican Party – and he says p...
Former House Speaker John Perzel is scheduled to testify in Pennsylvania's government corruption trial. Officials say the Phi...
A state appeals court says the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation acted improperly when it canceled the driver's licen...
A former top aide to then-House Speaker John Perzel says Perzel once harbored hopes of being elected as Pennsylvania's govern...
An environmental group says that air quality problems may be even worse than previously thought in a new report issued Wednes...
A businessman from the Philadelphia suburbs is planning to join the crowded field seeking the Republican nomination to challe...
Governor Tom Corbett is revealing more details about the kind of fee he wants to impose on Pennsylvania's booming natural gas...
Rabies has been confirmed in a skunk in Eerie County, raccoons and foxes in Centre County, and beavers in Philadelphia.While ...
Pennsylvania's top environmental official says the state will use tough enforcement when it comes to regulating natural gas d...
Governments, airports, utilities and rescue workers across Pennsylvania are keeping a close eye on Hurricane Irene, preparing...
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake centered in Virginia was felt all across Pennsylvania, with people from Philadelphia to Altoona to...
The team that coordinates Bedford County's response to domestic violence has been asked to present its "success story&qu...
Pennsylvania may be ending its one-year experiment with wine vending machines at grocery stores amid a contractor dispute.The...
Police are keeping an eye out for a sticky-fingered person wandering the streets of Philadelphia in a flowing judicial robe.A...
A new casino in Philadelphia spurred much of an increase in tax revenue from slot-machine gambling in Pennsylvania.The Pennsy...
Proposed legislation would allow undocumented immigrant students to pay in-state tuition at Pennsylvania colleges if they mee...
Budget Secretary Charles Zogby on Friday certified that $776.2 million in gaming revenue will be available for property tax r...
