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HARRISBURG (AP) — Despite the legal and political uproar over Gov. Tom Wolf’s 7-month-old moratorium on executions, change comes slowly on Pennsylvani...

WASHINGTON — Pope Francis embodies sanctity but comes trailing clouds of sanctimony. With a convert's indiscriminate zeal, he embraces ideas impeccabl...

The state of Pennsylvania has an official motto, and it’s a fine one: (BEG ITAL)“Virtue, Liberty, and Independence (END ITAL).” Alas, the state legisl...

With the opening of the high school football season, local newspapers and TV stations have again been running lists of what they believe are the top t...

WASHINGTON —The relatively rare moments of economic analysis and political outreach in the second Republican debate — Chris Christie talking about inc...

NEW YORK (AP) — Pope Francis will arrive Sept. 22 in the United States to find a Catholic church playing a prominent role in American life, with a vas...

CLEVELAND — About a mile from where the Cleveland Indians test their fans' patience, there is a facility that expresses Ohio's attempt to temper justi...

WASHINGTON — His father had a term that could be applied to Jeb Bush's tax plan: "voodoo economics," the unproven notion that massive tax cuts for the...

WASHINGTON — Once upon a time in a twinkling city on a hill, little boys and girls were taught that anyone could grow up to become president. The chil...

WASHINGTON — Conducting government business via private email was a mistake, Hillary Clinton has conceded. She's sorry, albeit belatedly, grudgingly, ...

WASHINGTON — Since the Iran nuclear deal was announced in mid-July, the world has been treated to an unusual historical spectacle. As President Obama ...

WASHINGTON — Some in the media were quick to dismiss Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's speech attacking Donald Trump as the opportunistic rant of a 1 perc...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania state government’s budget season is typically hectic, with raucous rallies echoing through the Pennsylvania Capitol, lo...

GRAFTON, Ohio — The man at the front of the room in the prison here is talking about the institution's culinary and hospitality training that will hel...

He was born into poverty in New Hampshire in 1811. His father was a struggling farmer. His mother did most of the other chores. He was a brilliant stu...

SORKHI, India (AP) — When Sadhuram Berwal wanted to get married, his family went about it in the traditional Indian way, asking relatives, neighbors a...

WASHINGTON — Fourteen grim anniversaries separated from Sept. 11, 2001, some memories still come in high definition, like flashes of a strobe light. A...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's boastful ignorance in his interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt reminded me of a story that my late colleague David Broder...

"I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exh...

What if you called 911 for a medical emergency and no one came? Ambulance services across Pennsylvania, and especially in rural areas like ours, are f...