Prosecutors have dropped DUI charges against Pittsburgh Steelers receiver and Dancing With the Stars winner Hines Ward.
Officials in Philadelphia say a Ukrainian hockey coach found dead in his prison cell hanged himself earlier this month.
Rick Santorum is mocking Mitt Romney as a "Johnny come lately to the conservative cause."
A New York court decision has bolstered a movement among towns determined to prevent hydraulic fracturing for natural gas within their borders.
The Pennsylvania parole board is fighting a judge's recommendation to release an elderly man who remains behind bars nearly two years after his acquittal on murder charges.
The Pennsylvania Superior Court says the juvenile court trial for a boy who was just 11 when he allegedly killed his father's pregnant fiancee and unborn son will remain closed to the public, despite appeals by three...
Federal officials say another 10 states are getting a total of $230 million to set up new health insurance markets under President Barack Obama's overhaul.
The All-Star break may be coming at the right time for the struggling and fatigued 76ers.
A Pittsburgh man will spend at least three decades in prison in his wife's killing after entering a no-contest plea to criminal homicide.
The rules under which Pennsylvania courts determine whether a biological father or some other man should have to pay child support are changing, and even the Supreme Court says future cases will refine the new standards.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the last settlement for the costs of cleaning up a Superfund site near Pittsburgh.
An Academy Award-nominated movie is casting a bright spotlight on an unusual machine at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
Authorities in Lehigh County are investigating the cause of a house fire overnight that killed two men. Coroner Scott Grim says both men were pronounced dead after being pulled from the burning South Whitehall Township home....
A high-tech battery firm says it's chosen a site near Pittsburgh for a manufacturing plant.
Authorities are investigating the cause of a Pennsylvania house fire that killed two men.
Representatives of Penn State, Pitt and Temple are asking the state House Appropriations Committee to reject Gov. Tom Corbett's second straight proposal for deep cuts in state aid for the universities.
A prosecutor is investigating whether a western Pennsylvania county jail inmate infected with hepatitis C spit or blew his nose into food served to more than 200 guards and other staff.
Donald Trump is telling Michigan voters that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is a career politician who doesn't know how to create jobs.
A Pittsburgh police officer suspended without pay on charges he offered legal assistance to three women in exchange for sexual favors and allegedly tried to rape another will remain jailed until a judge receives a...
A group of protesters affiliated with Occupy Wall Street plan to elect 876 "delegates" around the country and hold a national 'general assembly' in Philadelphia over the Fourth of July.
A Pittsburgh-area suburb and its school district will pay $63,500 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by a woman who claims she was wrongfully barred from watching her daughter's seventh-grade basketball practices and...
A woman who said she was sexually harassed by the former head of the Philadelphia Housing Authority can testify in the ex-chief's defamation suit against the authority and former board members.
A 76-year-old western Pennsylvania man is claiming police violated his civil rights and wrongfully charged him with killing a woman he'd married just weeks earlier.
Representatives of Penn State, Pitt and Temple are asking the state House Appropriations Committee to reject Gov. Tom Corbett's second straight proposal for deep cuts in state aid for the universities.
The former owner of a northwestern Pennsylvania bowling alley owner has pleaded no contest to five counts of corruption of minors after authorities agreed to drop other charges relating to allegedly inappropriate contact...
Erie police say an inmate on work release from the county jail raped a woman at gunpoint in her home.
T-Mobile USA, which just had its acquisition by AT&T blocked by regulators, is now urging the federal government to block another deal in the wireless world: Verizon's planned purchase spectrum from cable companies...
The city of Erie wants a judge to overturn a federal court jury's $207,000 verdict in favor of a firefighter who claimed she was wrongly dismissed following a 2006 suicide attempt in which she set clothes on fire in a...
Police say a Pittsburgh man is in custody on charges that he intentionally set a fire after a woman asked him to leave her apartment, and that a firefighter was hurt when part of the building's chimney fell on him.
One of four Atlanta men charged with enlisting homeless people to cash counterfeit business checks in the Pittsburgh area is set to plead guilty in the scheme.
An Iraq war veteran accused of fatally shooting two people in a Pennsylvania sandwich shop shooting wants to represent himself at sentencing if he's convicted of first-degree murder next month.
A man who once faked his own death to avoid prosecution has been arrested in another case after nearly 10 years on the run from authorities in northwestern Pennsylvania.
A Pennsylvania woman accused of selling thoroughbreds for slaughter instead of adopting them as promised can enter a program for first-time offenders under a deal with prosecutors.
A Pennsylvania school district plans to put advertisements on the inside of its buses as it tries to deal with cuts in state funding.
The Legislative Reapportionment Commission is preparing to hold its first meeting since the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out the proposed General Assembly maps based on the 2010 census.
For every presidential candidate, there's now at least one $1 million donor.
Rick Santorum is looking for another upset while Mitt Romney is hoping to keep his leading rival at bay as they prepare for the 20th debate of the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
First birth control, now prenatal testing? Once again a fact of life for many American women has become a jarring issue in the presidential race.
A new survey shows that a surging Rick Santorum is running even with Mitt Romney atop the Republican presidential field, but neither candidate is faring well against President Barack Obama eight months before Americans vote.
U.S. Rep. Mark Critz is challenging the nominating petitions of his fellow Democratic Pennsylvania congressman, Jason Altmire, as the two compete for the party nomination in a district drawn by Republicans to force them into...
A western Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to shooting his mother to death more than a year ago has been sentenced to the maximum term of 20 to 40 years in prison.
Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say a cigarette started a fire that killed a woman on Valentine's Day.
Gus the groundhog, the furry fictional pitchman for the Pennsylvania lottery, is headed for the unemployment line.
New York City's mayor faced off with the president of Yale University on Monday over efforts by the city's police department to monitor Muslim student groups.
A retired school administrator from northeastern Pennsylvania has been charged with misuse of public funds.
U.S. Rep. Mark Critz is challenging the nominating petitions of his fellow Democratic Pennsylvania congressman, Jason Altmire, as the two compete for the party nomination in a district drawn by Republicans to force them into...
A judge says Pittsburgh-area man is guilty of homicide by vehicle and involuntary manslaughter in a crash that killed three of his friends.
The owner of a Pittsburgh-area animal shelter must stand trial on charges he stole more than $37,000 in state funds by telling a "sleeping" dogs lie.
A surging Rick Santorum is making increasingly harsh remarks about President Barack Obama, questioning not just the president's competence but his motives and even his Christian values.
A jury will now have to decide whether a former Philadelphia police officer accused of having shot an unarmed neighbor to death more than two years ago is guilty of murder.
Federal labor officials say they found nine workplace violations at a candy repackaging and distribution facility owned by The Hershey Co. and operated by Exel Inc. where foreign student workers protested last summer.
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum says he was an outsider while inside Congress, a lawmaker who attacked corruption from within.
The graying of America is in full swing in the nation's Appalachian region.
Mitt Romney is wading into the social and religious issues that have helped fuel rival Rick Santorum's rise.
A Christian college in western Pennsylvania has sued the federal government saying that requiring employers to offer birth control coverage that includes drugs that abort fertilized embryos are "directly at odds with the...
Authorities say an argument prompted a Pennsylvania man to shoot and kill his father inside the family home.
Residents of six Pennsylvania state House districts that aren't currently represented because their lawmakers have been elected to other offices are asking the state Supreme Court to force special elections to be held...
A nonprofit group has opened an office to assess the public health impacts of Marcellus Shale gas development in western Pennsylvania.
State police say a prison van carrying inmates has crashed on the Schuylkill Expressway in Philadelphia, causing traffic delays but no injuries.
A 48-year-old woman will spend 16 to 48 months in prison and must repay $570,000 to the state Department of Public Welfare for a fraud involving two day care centers she ran in western Pennsylvania.
Environmental groups say they may renew a legal battle if the federal government doesn't toughen proposed regulations of ship ballast water that has brought invasive species such as zebra mussels to the Great Lakes.
Dollar Bank plans to have some automatic teller machines in the Pittsburgh-area that will show customers a live, interactive video teller.
A political action committee supporting Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says it has refunded a $50,000 donation from a London-based securities firm because the money came from a foreign source. Such...
A federal magistrate in Pittsburgh says a county jail inmate who can be seen on a guard's YouTube video of another sleeping guard can't sue for damages because he has no privacy rights while in jail.
The bodies of dozens of dead chickens have been found dumped at a Pennsylvania cemetery that's had similar incidents in the past.
A baby found in cardiac arrest at an Erie motel earlier this month has died in a Pittsburgh hospital and police are investigating.
A New Jersey horse rescue group is heading to West Virginia's Northern Panhandle to save 50 Arabian horses whose owner died in December.
A central Pennsylvania man accuse of dealing drugs had his luck run out when he won $2,500 playing blackjack at a casino near Philadelphia.
A northwestern Pennsylvania tear gas plant that's been targeted by protesters and computer hackers in recent months has also suffered its second fire since November.
A north central Pennsylvania resort has purchased two tracts amounting to 172 acres in an effort to preserve more nature around its current property.
Police say the western Pennsylvania woman who fled a traffic stop then fatally collided head-on with another motorist had drugs in her vehicle and was on probation in two counties.
Police and a district attorney are deciding whether to charge a western Pennsylvania high school basketball player with sucker punching an opponent who needed stitches.
Two good Samaritans and a crash victim they stopped to help are recovering in a hospital after all three were forced to jump from a highway overpass by a speeding truck.
Villanova University has canceled a workshop by a controversial gay performance artist, saying his performances aren't in keeping with the school's Catholic values.
A baby sitter has pleaded no-contest to child endangerment in the death of a baby who police say was shaken to death by a 9-year-old girl in her central Pennsylvania home.
Police are investigating a series of vehicle break-ins in a western Pennsylvania community, including one theft that ended in the loss of medical supplies for a 6-year-old cerebral palsy patient with a brain tumor.
Sen. Bob Casey wants the Army Corps of Engineers to pick up the pace of its analysis of damage to the levees protecting river communities in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Police have arrested the man they say fatally struck a suburban Philadelphia man then left him for dead on a Bucks County road.
Allegheny College is honoring columnists David Brooks and Mark Shields in Washington with the school's first Prize for Civility in Public Life.
Jury selection is set to start Tuesday in the landmark priest sex-abuse trial of a longtime official of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
The actor best known as Balki from the 1980s TV sitcom "Perfect Strangers" is coming back to TV with a show about restoring his historic Pennsylvania homes.
An unmistakable dynamic is playing out in the money game among Republican presidential candidates: New "super" political action committees are growing more powerful than the campaigns they support.
Police have arrested two people after more than a half dozen dismembered dogs were found inside a house.
A Delaware woman has been arrested for stealing items from residents of a Pennsylvania nursing home where she works as a nurse's aide.
Philosophical differences between the top two Republican presidential candidates are becoming starker.
The University of Scranton and Commonwealth Medical College say they are talking about a "possible" affiliation.
Authorities say a man shot at an eastern Pennsylvania gun club has died.
Barry and Rebecca Vest of Idaho don't understand why a woman since jailed near Pittsburgh pretended to be pregnant in text messages and emails so they'd fly to Pennsylvania in December to adopt a baby that didn't...
Police in suburban Philadelphia say they have recovered a car they believe to be the one that struck and killed a man over the weekend - but they are still looking for the driver.
Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a driver will face charges in a crash that killed another driver.
A West Virginia man has been charged with homicide by vehicle and murder of a law enforcement agent in a crash that killed a deputy sheriff in western Pennsylvania.
Four Associated Press reporters are among the recipients of this year's prestigious George Polk Awards in Journalism.
Officials say the annual Penn State dance marathon has raised a record $10.68 million to benefit pediatric cancer patients, an event held for the first time without late coach Joe Paterno.
Some teachers and other school employees who have criminal pasts are fighting to keep their jobs in light of a recently revised Pennsylvania law aimed at protecting children.
On the surface, Edward Maher and his wife appeared to enjoy a comfortable middle-class life. They had homes in quiet neighborhoods, drove late-model cars and took occasional weekend trips. They raised two sons.
Fire has once again struck a historic suburban Philadelphia religious camp meeting site, damaging nine buildings, including a church.
Maryland lawmakers are still waiting for the big payout from the Legislature's gamble more than four years ago on legalized slot machines.
Newt Gingrich says he and other GOP presidential candidates must win their home-turf contests or face serious questions about continuing in the race.
Organizers say someone smashed six of the ice sculptures prepared for display at a central Pennsylvania festival this weekend.
Police in suburban Philadelphia are trying to find the driver of a vehicle that struck and killed a pedestrian and then fled the scene.
Police say gunshots have been fired at a seafood market in southeastern Pennsylvania, killing one person and injuring four others.
The other famous bell on Independence Square is once again chiming the hours in the historic section of Philadelphia.
Jurors are expected to begin deliberations next week in the case of a former Philadelphia police officer accused of having shot an unarmed neighbor to death more than two years ago.
The Associated Press has learned that the New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond city limits, including Yale and the University of...
A Pennsylvania woman who set fire to the New Jersey home of her ex-boyfriend's family after learning he had taken another girl to his high school prom has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Officials in two suburban Philadelphia communities have rejected an investment group's proposal to put up billboards.
Minnesota's Department of Commerce has fined a Pennsylvania-based debt-collection firm $250,000 for offenses including hiring convicted felons.
A Massachusetts family is reclaiming one of two Purple Heart medals a relative won for his Korean War service.
The five-member Pennsylvania commission redrawing district lines for 50 seats in the state Senate and 203 in the state House is meeting Wednesday, but it's unclear whether they'll be able to come up with new...
Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a deputy sheriff from West Virginia was killed in an early morning crash during a vehicle pursuit.
One of three western Pennsylvania men serving life sentences in a drug-related kidnapping and murder a decade ago has been granted a new trial.
A defense attorney is asking a judge to toss out alleged statements by a distraught eastern Pennsylvania driver following a crash that killed two motorcyclists last summer.
Presidential candidate Rick Santorum is raising the stakes in the GOP nomination race in Ohio, declaring the state "ground zero" as he campaigns for one of Super Tuesday's biggest prizes.
A tradition at Penn State is going on for the first time without Joe Paterno.
Nearly 300 newsroom employees of Philadelphia's two major newspapers are calling on the current and any future owners to protect the integrity of their reporting.
Philadelphia police say a 17-year-old girl was attacked with a stun gun during a fight.
A judge has issued a temporary halt to construction and tree clearing on a natural gas pipeline in northern Pennsylvania's pristine Endless Mountains that's embroiled in a court fight over eminent domain.
Generic drug giant Mylan Inc. and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have settled two lawsuits stemming from a story that prompted a Food and Drug Administration review.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says Rick Santorum isn't a fiscal conservative, directly attacking his rival for the first time in more than a week.
A leading Democrat in the Pennsylvania Legislature wants to rename the state highway agency the Department of Deferred Maintenance, while Republican Gov. Tom Corbett is using colorful language to describe his critics.
Rick Santorum is continuing his swing through Michigan, the home state of Mitt Romney, his rival for the Republican presidential nomination.
First Niagara Bank said Friday it expects its $1 billion purchase of HSBC Bank's upstate New York retail operations to be completed by mid-May and is making plans to consolidate 35 locations where First Niagara and HSBC...
The Arizona Board of Regents has named a University of Arizona president. The regents named Ann Weaver Hart Friday the 21st president of the Tucson school.
An Environmental Protection Agency official says West Virginia has made the most improvement on its Chesapeake Bay restoration plans, and Pennsylvania has the most work to do.
A serial arsonist already sentenced to at least 20 years in prison for arsons in one northeastern Pennsylvania county has been ordered to spend an additional four years behind bars for fires he set in a neighboring county.
A western Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 15 to 40 years in prison for killing a man during a drug deal who had also shot and wounded him.
In the Democratic race for state attorney general, Kathleen Kane is calling on Patrick Murphy to take the Pennsylvania bar exam.
A northwestern Pennsylvania county councilman has dropped an appeal in hopes a federal judge in Erie will agree he owes just $111,000 in back taxes - a fraction of what the IRS has claimed.
The commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police says the closure of a pair of dispatch centers will add 100 troopers to patrol but some barracks may have to be closed in the future while the force deals with increased...
Production of Marcellus Shale natural gas in Pennsylvania rose again in the second half of 2011, slightly exceeding projections.
The former head teller for a western Pennsylvania credit union has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for fudging bank records to cover up stealing $400,000 from three of the agency's automated teller machines.
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is set to announce the result of its appeals process after announcing last month plans to close 48 schools in response to rising costs and declining enrollment.
A southwestern Pennsylvania resort has reopened its ski slopes five days after a massive fire destroyed its ski lodge.
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey has asked whether the FBI might help solve the case of a western Pennsylvania girl who's been missing since 1958 and was legally declared dead nine years later.
Maine's largest newspaper company has a new top editor.
A northwestern Pennsylvania man has been charged with raping a 39-year-old mentally disabled woman who lived at a state-run home when he was still an employee there.
Police in one western Pennsylvania township say a frantic 911 call reporting a man caught in a bear trap didn't quite live up to its billing.
Police say two armed robbers stole cash and a bottle of Crown Royal whiskey during an early morning heist at a Pittsburgh-area restaurant.
Some Pennsylvania Democrats are upset over an appeal by President Barack Obama's re-election campaign for anecdotes about Rick Santorum.
Human remains found by a hunter in November are those of a northwestern Pennsylvania man who advocated legalizing marijuana before he was reported missing in 2008.
State police say a tractor-trailer caught fire and was destroyed, along with nine cars it was carrying, on westbound Interstate 90 near Erie.
Police say the newborn fatally bitten by a dog inside a western Pennsylvania home had been left alone while his mother was in the bathroom.
The Pittsburgh Zoo has a new baby gorilla in its midst.
A hefty southeastern Pennsylvania man is behind bars after police say he walked naked into a Walmart and stole a pair of socks.
Philadelphia's two major newspapers will start cooperating under a restructuring plan that comes as a group of local powerbrokers make an ownership bid.
Most Americans don't share Rick Santorum's absolutist take on abortion. He's out of step on women in combat, and he questions the values of the two-thirds of mothers who work. He's even troubled by something...
One of senior Will Martin's lasting memories at Penn State was when football coach Joe Paterno came to rouse some 700 dancers trying to make it through the annual charity dance marathon on campus.
Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum is distancing himself from a high-profile supporter's comments about contraception.
Special Olympics of Pennsylvania says it has received about $80,000 donations in memory of the late Penn State coach Joe Paterno.
A Pittsburgh police officer is charged with offering to provide assistance to several women in exchange for sexual favors.
Two women have been sentenced to prison time for running down several people, killing one, outside a North Philadelphia nightclub.
A Transportation Security Administration instructor at Philadelphia International Airport is facing bribery charges.
Carnegie Mellon University says it is raising tuition for the next class of new students by 4 percent.
Aides say Mitt Romney is out and Rick Santorum is doubtful for a March 1 presidential debate in Atlanta sponsored by CNN.
PennDOT has decided not to fix or replace a 104-year-old western Pennsylvania bridge named for former Lt. Gov. Ernest Kline.
The city of Pittsburgh is offering free parking downtown to homeowners who appeal their court-mandated property tax reassessments.
A former police officer has been convicted in a fatal drunk driving accident in suburban Philadelphia.
A 3-day-old infant has been rushed to a hospital after police say it was bitten in the head by a family dog at a home near Pittsburgh.
A Pennsylvania man has been convicted of third-degree murder for shooting a longtime friend in what he claimed was an accident.
Bayer Corp. USA says Chief Executive Officer Greg Babe will retire at the end of June, after 36 years with the company.
More than 1,000 people attended the world premiere of the independent film Deadline, which was made in Nashville and inspired by the true story of how a newspaper helped solve a small-town racially motivated killing.
Pennsylvania's chief fiscal watchdog says he's expanding his look at the state's six psychiatric hospitals after finding that two contracted employees were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in a year.
The English king's land grant to William Penn is going to be displayed at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg for about a week next month.
The leader of the Pennsylvania House Democratic caucus is asking the Republican speaker to schedule special elections for six currently vacant seats in the chamber.
Police say a western Pennsylvania man who claims to have split personalities confessed to robbing a Chinese restaurant after reading about it in the newspaper and realizing he was the person who did it.
A central Pennsylvania man has been ordered to stand trial on more than 400 child pornography and child-sex counts alleging he abused a 6-year-old girl while a 3-year-old girl watched, and made the girls prance around in...
A 19-year-old man has been ordered to stand trial on homicide by vehicle and related charges for fatally striking a 13-year-old girl and injuring another teen as they crossed a highway to their school bus stop.
A western Pennsylvania man is in federal custody awaiting an extradition hearing to determine whether he'll be taken to Mexico to face charges that he raped and strangled a 16-year-old boy in a hotel there more than...
The former construction site superintendent for a Pittsburgh-area construction firm will spend three years on probation, including six months' house arrest, for willingly violating federal workplace safety rules that...
Authorities were still investigating the cause of a fire that killed an 83-year-old western Pennsylvania woman.
The Pittsburgh Public Schools paid two lobbyists $400,000 through no-bid contracts during four years when the district also closed schools and cut programs to address budget deficits and fought declining enrollment.
A western Pennsylvania man is jailed unable to post bail on charges that he twice fired a flare gun at his wife of 18 years, striking her in the torso with the second shot.
Lawyers are expected to make opening statements in the second corruption trial of former state House Democratic whip Michael Veon.
Police are investigating the death of a pregnant woman in the basement of her Philadelphia home.
Republican Mitt Romney is faltering with white working-class voters crucial to his party's drive to capture the White House. That's a problem for him because he's trying to fend off a rising GOP challenger, Rick...
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