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Pennsylvania faces a monumental state pension crisis. Public employee pension systems were initially designed with the goal of balancing the retiremen...

WASHINGTON — The exhausting, occasionally horrifying experience of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars still makes it difficult for political figures to say...

WASHINGTON — You know we’re off to the races when the first slip of the tongue by the presumed Republican presidential front-runner consumes the news ...

It was hard not to think of Don Raabe and what his reaction would be to the football game that he created and, indeed, to the sport he loved. On Sunda...

WASHINGTON — Let us talk about answering hypothetical questions, gotcha-type questions and no questions at all. That is, let us talk about Jeb Bush, M...

WASHINGTON — A near miss can be a sharp spur, so Rick Santorum wants to say something to those who profess condescending puzzlement about his persiste...

Max Douthit loved to hunt gobblers. His enthusiasm, drive, humor and passion for the sport made him a joy to hunt with. The author shot his very first...

WASHINGTON — Pass any Chipotle these days — and it is my gastronomic preference to pass rather than enter — and you will see signs claiming credit for...

Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., is running for his first reelection since his victory in 2010 probably against Joe Sestak (D). It’s bound to be one of the mos...

If you look at the history of the Southwestern New York-Northwestern Pennsylvania Men’s Amateur Golf Tournament, there’s a stretch of 15 years between...

SHANGHAI (AP) — Counterfeiters use several of China’s largest state banks as safe havens, relying on them to process credit card payments or move mone...

WASHINGTON — Controversies about “free-range parenting” illuminate today’s scarred cultural landscape. Neighbors summon police in response to parentin...

WASHINGTON — How depressing is it that, out of the more than a dozen announced or prospective Republican candidates for president in 2016, only one, C...

WASHINGTON — It is nearly axiomatic that presidential contests tend to shine a harsh light on conservative Christians — inasmuch as they are viewed as...

WASHINGTON — The recent spectacle of Pamela Geller, the erstwhile journalist who organized a provocative Prophet Muhammad cartoon-drawing contest in T...

WASHINGTON — The sign of a first-rate intelligence, according to F. Scott Fitzgerald, is “the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the sam...

WASHINGTON — The quarterback arrived at Salem State University by helicopter to adoring, cheering crowds. “Most famous witch hunt victims in Salem?” r...

WASHINGTON — In the 1950s, during one of his two campaigns as the Democrats’ presidential nominee, Adlai Stevenson was invited to address a gathering ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A huge nationwide spike in hospitalizations last month caused by a class of drugs often called "synthetic marijuana" illustrate...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Here’s what makes Rex Ryan different. Over the years, Bills head coaches have taken a few minutes, before the opening day of rook...