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STATE COLLEGE (TNS) — Two Penn State students were charged last week after police said they conspired to disrupt a final exam by threatening mass viol...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A Blair County man who was a former member of a group known as Altoona Pred Hunters has been charged with owning and selling child ...

(TNS) — The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is back at it once again. For the past several years around late January, the animal ri...

PITTSBURG (TNS) — A man was rescued Wednesday after taking off his clothes and jumping into a frigid Pennsylvania river, but not before he left a $30,...

(TNS) — Increased U.S. Postal Service shipping costs took effect Monday as part of what the agency said is a regular adjustment of prices to keep up w...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Emergency crews in Dauphin County on Thursday were dispatched to a nonprofit animal therapy organization to rescue a horse from an ...

HARRISBURG – While welcoming Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., state Republicans celebrated changes made to federal programs,...

HARRISBURG — Though judges run for office as members of a particular political party, once seated on the bench, they are expected to assume a stance o...

HARRISBURG – As electricity demand rises amid concerns about future supply, officials are pushing to modernize the region’s energy mix as reliability ...

HARRISBURG – An aging parent’s medical appointment, a parent-teacher conference, a minor household emergency — these are everyday events that can thro...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Treasury Department’s PA 529 College and Career Savings Program and the PA ABLE (Achieving a Better Life Experience) Pro...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity is calling the state’s new tax appeal and mediation process a success, citing more than 100 addition...

(TNS) — Lehigh County’s top financial elected official is calling for the eviction of ICE from county-owned property. Mark Pinsley, the county control...

HARRISBURG – If there’s one claim all Pennsylvania politicians can - and often do - rely on, it’s that the divided state government forces them to wor...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) encourages residents to test their homes for radon during National Radon Ac...

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WASHINGTON — To reduce the financial barriers for early-stage entrepreneurs using crowdfunding while still maintaining investor confidence and market ...

HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania’s next big energy push heads back underground to tap a resource once limited to the fringes of volcanoes and hot springs. At...